Chapter 8 - VANESSA’S SOCIAL MEDIA COLLAPSE
Panicked by the sudden financial drought, Vanessa retreated inside to vent her frustrations where she felt safest—her curated online persona. She fired off a frantic string of posts complaining about "incompetent bank systems" and insinuating that her domestic staff was causing disruptions. However, because their lifestyle had been entirely propped up by the liquid distributions of the Mercer Trust—distributions that Martin Hale had now completely severed—her online whining quickly attracted creditors and boutique vendors who had been waiting on unpaid invoices for luxury goods and gala sponsorships, turning her digital sanctuary into a public accounting nightmare.
