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THE SECRET HOUSE ON ELM STREET 🏡✨ / Chapter 6 / 10

Chapter 6 - The Foreclosure ShadowI moved into my red-brick home on Elm Street—a beautiful, sunlit sanctuary surrounded by blooming oak trees, green lawns, and quiet peace.

I hired a senior divorce attorney, Arthur Vance, who filed an immediate petition for annulment on grounds of financial fraud and material misrepresentation.

Meanwhile, back at the Mercer house, reality hit Daniel and Norma like a freight train.

Without my seventy-thousand-dollar annual salary covering their groceries, utilities, and lawn care, Daniel’s modest income as a junior floor manager couldn't keep up with the primary mortgage arrears.

Within forty-five days, First National Bank issued a formal NOTICE OF TRUSTEE SALE, placing the Mercer home on the county auction block.

Desperate to save his mother’s pride, Daniel called my phone forty times a day.

DANIEL: Elena, please! The bank is auctioning the house next week! Just loan us thirty thousand dollars! I’ll sign a promissory note!

DANIEL: Mom is sick from stress! How can you be so heartless?! We were married!

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