CHAPTER 5: THE END OF ONE STORY… AND THE BEGINNING OF ANOTHER

Six months later, the headlines were everywhere.
RIVAS EMPIRE COLLAPSES IN SCANDAL
Santiago faced multiple charges.
Beatriz disappeared from public life.
Their name—once powerful—became a warning.
And me?
I stood at the top floor of Grupo Salazar headquarters, holding my son as the city stretched endlessly below.
This time, I wasn’t hiding who I was.
“I’m ready,” I told my father.
He smiled.
“Then the world better be ready too.”
Mateo laughed softly in my arms.
And for the first time in a long time…
I wasn’t surviving.
I was living.
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And this time—
No one would ever take that away from me again.