Chapter 9: The Collapse
Chapter 9: The Collapse
Without Preston to worship, my parents' marriage began to crack.
According to my aunt, who had finally seen the truth and called to apologize to me, my father blamed my mother for coddling Preston. My mother blamed my father for not paying off the right people to make the charges disappear.
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My father’s boutique investment firm suffered massive withdrawals. Clients didn't want to entrust their money to a man who watched his granddaughter get attacked and did nothing. He was forced into early retirement.
They had to sell the massive estate in the suburbs and downsize to a condo. They had lost everything they valued: money, status, and the golden son. And they had no one to blame but themselves.
