Chapter 20: The Downsizing
Chapter 20: The Downsizing
Social karma does not arrive with dramatic explosions. It arrives as a slow, agonizing leak.
Six months later, Regina stood in her penthouse, surrounded by moving boxes.
Without the massive corporate salary and the endless expense accounts, the crushing mortgage of the Upper East Side property had become impossible to maintain. Her savings had drained rapidly.
She watched in silence as a moving crew carefully packed her expensive, modern art pieces.
She wasn't moving to a new penthouse. She was moving to a modest, two-bedroom apartment in a borough she had once mocked her assistants for living in.
She picked up one of her immaculate white designer suits from the closet. The fabric felt heavy. It no longer felt like armor; it felt like a costume from a play that had long since been canceled.
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She folded it into a cardboard box.
The empire hadn't been conquered by a rival. It had simply collapsed under the weight of its own arrogance.
