Chapter 9 - WHY HE THREW THE CHILDREN OUT THAT MORNING
Kate still did not understand the timing.
Why that morning?
Why suddenly throw children into freezing rain instead of waiting for lawyers?
The answer came from the denied home-equity application.
Richard needed $600,000.
His business had started failing again.
A new distribution warehouse stalled.
A lender called a note.
Two properties were already leveraged.
Rosewood Hall was the cleanest asset he believed he could access.
Except he didn’t own it.
The title company told him.
He panicked.
Then blamed Kate.
The previous evening, his lender formally refused the loan.
The next morning, Richard decided physical possession might create leverage.
If Kate left voluntarily, he could tell future lenders the title was disputed and possession restored to the Whitmore family.
Stupid.
Legally weak.
Emotionally plausible for a man accustomed to doors opening when he stood in front of them.
So he ordered the children out.
And when Kate refused, he started throwing clothes.
Richard had reduced six grandchildren to obstacles between him and collateral.
That realization ended whatever sympathy Kate still held for his grief.
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He may have loved Daniel.
He had loved ownership more.
