She found him in the café.
“No Valeria?”
“No.”
“Where is she?”
“I ended it.”
Lucía looked tired.
“You didn’t have to do that for me.”
“I didn’t.”
“I did it because continuing would be dishonest to her.”
Lucía sat across from him.
“What did you find?”
Alejandro placed no papers in front of her.
He had learned.
“Do you want the summary or the documents?”
She considered.
“Summary first.”
He told her.
The clinic photographs.
The cloned message.
The blocked calls.
Diego.
The forged authorization.
The stolen company money.
Lucía’s face changed when he mentioned the duplicated invoice.
“I knew it.”
“You remember?”
“I asked Ramón.”
“What did he say?”
“That wealthy companies duplicate invoice codes all the time.”
“He laughed at me.”
“He said I should focus on gala decorations.”
Alejandro’s jaw tightened.
Lucía continued.
“I asked your accounting director.”
