The bricklayer who raised three abandoned girls is left alone—until, 20 years later, they walk into a courtroom to save the man who once saved them.

sheet around him.

— Be quiet for a bit, all right? Now you’re the one resting.

Jimena pinned an old photograph of the four of them eating birthday cake to the wall beside his bed.

Mariana placed the sentencing documents on the nightstand.

— So you never forget that your name was cleared.

Months later, the school was formally audited.

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