Chapter 4 - The Mounting Debt
As David watched the footage playback on his phone screen, the horrifying reality of the woman he had agreed to marry unfolded before his eyes.
Vanessa was not the wealthy, independent heiress she claimed to be when they met eighteen months ago at a charity gala.
Her family's real estate business had quietly gone under two years prior, leaving her family buried under millions of dollars in predatory loans and dark gambling debts accrued by her older brother, Julian.
Julian had been threatened by dangerous loan sharks who gave him a strict seventy-two-hour deadline to pay off an overdue eight-hundred-thousand-dollar balance, or face violent retaliation.
Vanessa had promised her brother that she would secure the money before their upcoming high-society wedding.
When David refused to grant her full access to his mother's private estate trust prior to signing a prenuptial agreement, Vanessa realized her only option was to steal the heirloom necklace, sell it to a black-market fence, and blame the theft on the quiet, defenseless housekeeper.
She had calculated that David’s grief over the loss of his mother's treasure would cause him to immediately fire and prosecute Teresa without asking questions.
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She had miscalculated everything.
👉 What did David do the moment he finished watching the three-minute video clip?
