Chapter 17 - The Vance Family Empire Crumbles To Dust Overnight
The financial pages of every major newspaper in the country featured front-page exposes on the collapse of the Vance dynasty.
Vance Global Logistics was officially rebranded under its parent name, Iron Sentinel Logistics, erasing the disgraced family forever.
Investors fled in terror, and creditors seized every luxury vehicle, yacht, and art collection owned by Bertha and Derek.
In a cramped New Jersey motel room, Bertha watched the television news broadcast with dead, hollow eyes.
Her designer clothes were packed into cheap plastic bags, and her phone remained entirely silent as former allies abandoned her.
She had mocked the poor retired mechanic for years, treating him like an invisible servant beneath her notice.
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Now, that exact same mechanic had dismantled her entire existence with a single phone call from his encrypted phone.
The wheel of karma had turned with crushing, undeniable finality, leaving the proud matriarch utterly destitute.
