Chapter 3 - The Secret Master Funder
What Kelsey, her fiancé, and Mom had completely forgotten—or willfully ignored out of pure arrogance—was how this entire destination wedding trip had been funded.
Six months earlier, Kelsey had cried to the family that her dream wedding in Maui was impossible because her fiancé's family had pulled out of funding. She begged Darcy for help, claiming she would be humiliated in front of all her friends if she had to cancel.
Darcy, a successful senior software architect who had quietly invested in real estate for over a decade, had stepped up out of sisterly love. She had personally booked and paid for the entire luxury estate—a five-bedroom beachfront compound in Maui costing $24,000 for the week—along with six first-class roundtrip flight tickets totaling $6,000.
She had placed all the reservations under her personal credit card and master corporate account, keeping the receipts safely in her email.
Kelsey had taken all the credit, telling her friends and in-laws that her "generous family trust" had provided the luxury villa, never once thanking Darcy or acknowledging her financial sacrifice.
Back in her home office at 4:30 AM the next morning, the room was quiet except for the hum of Darcy's computer monitor.
Darcy sat at her desk, sipping warm tea as her glowing smartphone screen displayed the master booking portal.
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Her finger hovered over the red command button on the app: [CANCEL ALL RESERVATIONS - FULL REFUND TO ORIGINAL PAYMENT METHOD].
👉 Read Part 4 to see what happens when Darcy presses the final cancellation button.
