Chapter 13 - The Cold Karma of Ambition
Six months later, the afternoon sun shone brightly over the city skyline.
In a small, windowless office at a low-level debt collection agency on the outskirts of the city, Renata sat at a laminate desk, wearing a plain grey uniform.
Her luxury wardrobe had been liquidated to settle civil defamation claims filed by the St. Regis hotel and Salazar Enterprises. She spent her days making endless cold calls for minimum wage, her glamorous socialite lifestyle completely erased.
Whenever someone mentioned the name Valeria Salazar or featured the billionaire CEO on television screens, Renata would turn her face away in bitter, silent shame.
Meanwhile, Marcus was working two night-shift inventory jobs just to pay off his remaining restitution debts, living in a cramped basement apartment with no prestige, no luxury, and no hope of ever returning to the corporate world he had craved so desperately.
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They had both traded their integrity for a illusion of status—and ended up with nothing at all.
👉 Read PART 14 to see the grand tribute Valeria created in honor of her mother!
