A 12-year-old girl spotted a single altered digit on his license plate… then quietly whispered, “Follow me.”

office just to save money.

She knew the man he had been before anyone called him powerful.

She could not be planning this.

She could not.

But Abril pointed toward the garden.

“Come,” she whispered. “There’s something you need to see.”

She led him low behind the hedge, along the side path, toward the greenhouse.

Behind the bougainvillea, Santiago saw her.

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