Chapter 1
“Let's see if Emiliano still loves you with that face,” her mother sneered before bursting into laughter.
Valeria barely had time to turn around.
A brick slammed into the left side of her face with a sickening crack.
One second earlier, she had been standing on the cracked sidewalk outside her parents' house in Jardines de Morelos, wearing the sky-blue dress she had bought to announce her wedding date.
The next second...
Everything went white.
She felt a warm stream running from her eyebrow down to her lips.
Her knees gave out.
But Emiliano Alcázar caught her before her head struck the concrete steps of the porch.
“Vale! Look at me! Don't close your eyes!”
She tried to open her left eye.
Nothing.
With her right eye, she could barely make out her mother, Ofelia, standing beside the rusty porch swing.
She didn't run to help.
She didn't scream.
She didn't call an ambulance.
She just kept laughing.
Her father, Rogelio Mendoza, calmly dropped the remaining half of the brick onto the grass.
“I warned you to stop getting in the way,” he muttered with chilling calmness.
Emiliano stared at him in disbelief.
“What the hell did you just do?”
Just then, Valeria's younger sister, Daniela, stepped outside.
She wore an expensive dress, freshly manicured nails, and an annoyed expression—as though her sister's blood had merely ruined dinner.
“I told you she wouldn't move,” Daniela said, crossing her arms.
Ofelia sighed.
“We tried talking to her nicely.”
Emiliano gently leaned Valeria against one of the porch columns before standing up.
“You people are sick.”
Rogelio pointed directly at Daniela.
“You're engaged to the wrong daughter.”
The pounding in Valeria's head was unbearable.
But those words hurt even more.
Ever since Emiliano had sold his construction company for more than 48 million pesos, the Mendoza family had begun circling him.
First came the “casual” family dinners.
Then the constant compliments.
Soon afterward, Daniela began appearing at his gym, outside his office, and even in front of the apartment he shared with Valeria.
Every single time...
He rejected her.
He blocked her everywhere.
Daniela insisted Valeria was manipulating him and claimed that if her sister disappeared, Emiliano would eventually fall in love with her instead.
“You're going to marry Daniela,” Rogelio growled.
“Or you can forget about this family.”
“I love Valeria,” Emiliano answered firmly.
“You'll get over it,” Daniela replied with a smug smile.
Emiliano pulled out his phone to call 911.
Rogelio kicked it out of his hand.
The phone smashed against the porch steps, its screen shattering into pieces.
“No one's calling anybody.”
Emiliano shoved him away.
Although Rogelio was already 63 years old, he lunged back at him without hesitation.
The two men crashed into the rose bushes while Ofelia and Daniela watched without the slightest sign of surprise.
That was when Valeria realized something terrifying.
This wasn't a sudden outburst.
It had all been planned.
A utility truck from Mexico's Federal Electricity Commission (CFE) suddenly stopped in front of the house.
The technician stepped out, saw Valeria covered in blood, and immediately reached for his phone.
“I'm calling an ambulance!”
Rogelio started walking toward him.
“Take one more step,” the technician warned firmly,
“and I'll also report that you tried to assault me.”
Rogelio stopped in his tracks.
The sirens arrived only minutes later.
As the paramedics lifted Valeria onto the stretcher, she glanced toward the living room window.
Behind the curtain stood an elderly man she had never seen before.
One trembling hand rested against the glass.
His eyes were filled with guilt...
As though he had spent years waiting for this very moment.
Then the curtain slowly closed.
What Valeria still didn't know was that before the night was over...
Six witnesses would finally tell the truth.
And a forgotten will left by her grandfather would permanently destroy the power her family had held for decades.
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