“I can, because it belongs to me, and I would rather give it to people who truly need it,” she said.
Susan looked up desperately.
“Where will we go,” she asked.
Paige glanced back one last time.
“You have three months to leave,” she replied.
She walked toward the SUV, and a guard opened the door for her.
Before entering, she paused and looked at her mother one final time.
“If you had offered me even a glass of water when I arrived, things might have ended differently,” she said quietly.
She stepped into the vehicle, and the door closed with a heavy sound as the convoy drove away.
As Paige looked out through the tinted window, she realized something deeper than money or success.
True bankruptcy was not about losing wealth, but about losing humanity, and her family had been living that way for years.
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