Exactly two days after receiving the divorce papers, I immediately suspended the monthly pension of five hundred thousand pesos that I gave to my former mother-in-law.

had long disappeared from that man’s sense of morality.

That afternoon, my Messenger filled with messages—voice notes one after another, like a storm, each complaint more absurd than the last:

“Rebeca, what’s wrong with you?”
“Where is my mother’s money?”
“Are you really going to let her go hungry?”

I stared at the screen and couldn’t help but laugh.

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