The judge forced him to choose between his poor mother and his millionaire father—but the boy revealed evidence that shattered everything the court believed.

into his pocket and brought out a small medal of the Virgin of Guadalupe.

Claudia went still.

It was the medal his grandmother had given him before she died.

He had lost it months ago.

Nicolás held it carefully.

“My dad threw it in the trash. He said those things were for low-class, poor people. Emiliano took it out of the bag before they took it away.”

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