Because someone had just knocked on the front door of that mansion.
And they weren’t there to visit.
I answered on the fourth ring.
“Who the hell is at my house?” he shouted.
I leaned back in my chair.
Those papers were still drying beside me.
“Those are the new owner’s representatives,” I said calmly.
“You shouldn’t keep them waiting.”
Silence.
Then panic.
“You can’t do this!” he said. “That’s my house!”
I almost smiled.
“My house,” I repeated. “Funny word.”
Then I told him the truth.
“I had every right to sell it. The same right I had when I paid for it. The same right I had yesterday… when you hit me thirty times in a house that was never yours.”
He went quiet.
“You wouldn’t,” he said.
“I already did.”
And I hung up.
By that afternoon, everything started collapsing.
The locks were being changed.
The staff was confused.
The illusion was gone.
But the house was only the beginning.
Because once the truth came out, so did everything else.
He had been using that house to impress investors… listing it as his asset… building a fake image of success on something he didn’t own.
And without it?
Everything started falling apart.
That night, he showed up at my apartment.
Angry. Desperate.
“What is wrong with you?” he demanded.
I looked at him calmly.
“You hit me thirty times,” I said.
“And you think I’m the problem?”
He tried to justify it.
Said I provoked him.
That’s when something inside me finally died for good.
“What do you want?” he asked.
I looked him straight in the eyes.
“I want you out by Friday. I want you to face everything you’ve done. And I want you to remember every number from one to thirty… before you ever raise your hand again.”
A week later, his life was in ruins.
His job suspended him.
His wife left.
The house was gone.
The image he built?
Gone with it.
Three weeks later… he came back.
Not as the man he thought he was.
Just a man with nothing left to hide behind.
“Help me,” he said.
Not “I’m sorry.”
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