Chapter 7 - The Downward Spiral
While Madeline was rebuilding, Jeffrey was sinking. Without the company, without his money, and without the lifestyle he had taken for granted, he had become a shell of a man.
Noelle and Cynthia had left him the moment the money stopped. They realized he was useless to them. He lived in a cramped apartment on the outskirts of Atlanta, working a menial job, his reputation in the corporate world destroyed by the leaked audio of his negligence.
He tried to sue for visitation, but the courts were ruthless. With the audio evidence of his abuse and the medical report detailing Liam’s near-starvation, the judge granted him zero access.
He lost his car. He lost his dignity. And finally, he lost his mind.
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He spent his nights calling Madeline’s old phone number, leaving long, rambling, drunken messages about how "unfair" the world was, how "she had set him up."
Madeline listened to none of them. She handed them over to her legal team, who filed them as evidence of continued harassment, ensuring he stayed as far away as possible. He was a ghost in her past, a reminder of what happened when you chose greed over love.
