The bottle of French wine I’d saved for retirement was already open when I stormed into my $9.5 million mountain home and found Sterling inside. His wife was dragging a measuring tape across my master closet while their kids raced through rooms that belonged to me. My brother barely looked up. “I hired a locksmith and told him I owned the place. That mortgage was going to bury you anyway.” I said nothing, though the insult landed harder than the invasion. He mistook my silence for surrender. Then I took out my phone, contacted the company holding his $2.5 million debt, and calmly authorized formal collection proceedings.
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