Chapter 8 - Cracks in the Bennett DynastyOn Friday morning at ten o'clock, the foreclosure auction of the Bennett Mansion took place on the steps of the municipal courthouse.
The news had become a major regional scandal, dubbed "The Shattered Glass Dynasty."
Over two hundred local citizens, business leaders, and reporters gathered as the auctioneer raised his gavel.
I stood near the back of the crowd beside Daniel, who was fully recovered, wearing a sharp charcoal suit.
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Within fifteen minutes, a regional heritage preservation trust purchased the four-acre mansion estate for twelve million dollars. Under the terms of the Hale Trust, sixty percent of the proceeds were immediately distributed to pay back the defrauded construction workers' pension funds, while the remaining funds were placed into a charitable foundation managed entirely by me.
Dad sat on a park bench across the street, watching his prized mansion sold to strangers, realizing that his sixty years of arrogant dominance had vanished in a single week.
