Chapter 2: The Midnight Visitor

Chapter 2: The Midnight Visitor
Alejandro remembered the photograph.
The man leaving at two in the morning.
He held up his phone.
"Who was he?"
Valeria pointed toward another report.
"A specialist."
Alejandro opened it.
Dr. Javier Morales.
Maternal-fetal medicine consultant.
He had been making private house calls because Valeria had become too frightened to leave the mansion after repeated confrontations with Alejandro's family.
The blurry photograph his sister had sent...
Captured the doctor leaving after an emergency examination.
Not a lover.
A physician trying to keep their unborn child alive.
Alejandro felt physically sick.
Downstairs...
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Marcela laughed with Doña Esther over breakfast.
Neither woman knew the truth had finally surfaced.