I was eight months pregnant when my millionaire husband raised his hand to me again.
/
Chapter 3 / 5
CHAPTER 3: THE FALL
The investigation didn’t take long.
Once the first crack appeared, everything else followed.
Forgery.
Financial manipulation.
Coercion.
Even the private psychiatric facility they planned to send me to was exposed for accepting illegal commitments from wealthy clients.
Santiago was arrested within 48 hours.
No press conference.
No escape.
No control.
As they led him away, he looked at me—truly looked at me—for the first time.
“You lied to me,” he said.
I shook my head slowly.
“No,” I replied. “I trusted you.”
That was the truth he couldn’t survive.
Beatriz tried to salvage what remained of their reputation, but without money, without influence, without silence to protect her—
She was just another name in the investigation.
May you like
And this time…
No one was smiling.
