I informed my stunned parents that I had personally paid off the twelve million dollar debt and taken permanent possession of the Oakridge property deed. My mother fell to her knees in panic and crawled across the beautiful Persian rug clutching the lapel of my jacket and begging me to save them with my immense wealth. I calmly removed her desperate hands from my
clothing and used a clean silk handkerchief to wipe the fabric exactly where she had touched me rejecting her completely in front of everyone. I told Eleanor that she was now living in my guest room and that my security teams would arrive early in the morning to seize all her designer
dresses and jewelry to satisfy the outstanding debt. I advised my weeping sister to find a minimum wage job scrubbing hotel rooms just as I had done a decade earlier when they abandoned me. My father left immediately for his new estate and I returned to my quiet penthouse having transformed myself from a discarded maid into a powerful sovereign who collected everything she was owed.
