He told her to raise the baby on her own… but 18 months later, when she saw her three children at the airport, her entire world shattered.

— Yes.

— And you concealed it from me?

Don Ernesto didn’t flinch.

— I protected the life you were building.

Valeria felt revulsion.

— No, sir. You didn’t protect anything. You stole eighteen months.

Don Ernesto looked at her for the first time.

— You don’t understand what it means to carry a surname like Aranda.

— And you don’t understand what it means to continue reading …