PART 1 The message arrived one cold December afternoon, while Valeria Montiel was reviewing some contracts from her office in Santa Fe, Mexico City. The name on the screen left her frozen. Leonardo Aranda. Eight years had passed since that man, the same one who promised her eternal love in front of half her family…
PART 1 Santiago Armenta’s mansion in Lomas de Chapultepec shone like those houses that appear in magazines, but inside it felt colder than a hospital at midnight. He was 28 years old, owned buildings with his surname, land in half the Republic, and more money than many could imagine. But nobody was expecting him for…
PART 1 The doctor gave the news at 8:17 on a Monday, at the Ángeles de las Lomas Hospital. Don Rodrigo Herrera didn’t blink when the cardiologist lowered his voice. “I’m so sorry, Mr. Herrera. Santiago’s heart is failing faster than expected. He’s not responding well anymore, he doesn’t want to eat, he’s refusing therapy….
PART 1 Verónica was taken to a notary’s office in Polanco to sign the papers that, according to her husband, would finally free her from her family’s problems. Raúl drove in silence, with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on her knee, as if that gesture still meant love. “After today, my…
PART 1 Alejandro Montes arrived at the lake house in Valle de Bravo with a single intention: to close the door on the past. Almost two years had passed since the death of Elisa, his wife, and he was still living as if the air weighed him down. He owned hotels, housing developments, and shopping…
PART 1 Sofi’s crying echoed throughout the cabin as if the entire plane had run out of patience. Maribel Torres held her closer to her chest, rocking her gently, her eyes red and her arms trembling. She had just finished working two shifts in a row at a small restaurant in Iztapalapa, rushed to the…
PART 1 The invitation arrived one cold December afternoon, when Valeria Montes was reviewing contracts from her office in Santa Fe, Mexico City. Outside, Christmas lights twinkled on the glass buildings. Inside, the silence was broken by a vibration in her cell phone. The name on the screen left her frozen. Sebastian Arriaga. Eight years…
PART 1 Mariana Ríos experienced her first contraction while in the kitchen of her home in Coyoacán, with a glass of water in her hand and her feet swollen from 38 weeks of pregnancy. The pain was so intense that the glass slipped from his grasp. The glass shattered against the white floor. “Diego…” she…
PART 1 Nine days before Emiliano Cárdenas was to marry another woman, he saw Valeria pushing a double stroller through the Chapultepec Forest. He was walking alongside Renata Luján, his fiancée, an impeccable woman from Polanco, wearing an ivory coat, expensive dark glasses, and with a mental list of things to do for the wedding….
PART 1 At 19 years old, Camila Santillán received a sentence disguised as advice. Her father, Don Ernesto, stood in the middle of the room with a hard face, as if he were talking to a stranger and not to the daughter he had raised in a humble house in Querétaro. His mother, Teresa, wept…
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