months.
It did not mean reconciliation.
He knew that.
He treasured it anyway.
The legal proceedings continued after Isabela’s birth.
The final forensic total connected to Ramón and associated entities
exceeded twenty-three million dollars.
Not every suspicious transaction became a proven crime.
Some were legitimate.
Some were poorly documented.
Others were devastatingly clear.
Ramón’s scheme had survived because he occupied a position of inherited
trust.
People assumed family meant loyalty.
They assumed legal authority meant legitimacy.
They assumed signatures were real.
They assumed someone else had checked.
Lucía’s duplicated invoice question had threatened that entire
structure.
Ramón needed her discredited before she kept looking.
The pregnancy gave him a lever.
He knew Alejandro’s pride.
He knew Lucía’s fear of becoming financially dependent.
He knew their marriage had already been strained by Alejandro’s constant
work.
He inserted lies into existing cracks.
