Eight months after our divorce, my ex-husband invited me to his wedding and mocked me for “not giving him a family”—while I lay in a hospital bed beside the baby he never knew existed.

my chest, I opened the folder once more.

Paternity test: Santiago Aranda, 99.999% compatible.

Bank transfers: money from my trust sent to a shell company.

Mail between Santiago and Renata:

“Valeria is too broken to go through papers.”

“Get him to sign before he gets suspicious.”

And one last sheet of paper that my lawyer had given me that morning.

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