Chapter 2: Three Years of Darkness
The investigation moved faster than anyone expected.
Detectives searched every room of the Castillo mansion.
Hidden behind a false wall beneath the basement wine cellar, they discovered something no one could explain.
A locked underground bedroom.
No windows.
A rusted metal bed.
Chains bolted into the concrete floor.
Stacks of old maid uniforms.
A small calendar.
Every single day for three years had been marked with tiny pencil scratches.
One...
After another...
More than one thousand lonely marks.
Detective Ramirez quietly removed his hat.
Even veteran officers struggled to hide their emotions.
Upstairs, investigators uncovered surveillance footage Vivian believed had long been erased.
But Alejandro's cybersecurity team recovered everything.
Video after video showed the horrifying truth.
Vivian forcing Elena to scrub floors.
Destroying family photographs.
Burning Elena's clothing.
Ordering servants never to speak her name.
Threatening anyone who showed kindness.
One recording silenced the entire investigation room.
Vivian stood over Elena, who was weak from illness.
"You disappeared the day Alejandro believed you disappeared."
She smiled.
"And no one will ever convince him otherwise."
The room remained silent.
Then Detective Ramirez looked at Alejandro.
"She planned every second of it."
Alejandro nodded slowly.
"I know."
He stared at the monitor.
"And now she'll answer for every second."
Meanwhile, Elena finally revealed what had happened.
Three years earlier, Vivian had arranged a fake charity meeting.
Instead, Elena had been drugged inside her own vehicle.
When she woke up...
She was already locked beneath the mansion.
Vivian forged travel records.
Destroyed passports.
Bribed employees.
Spread rumors that Elena had abandoned her marriage.
Whenever Alejandro came close to discovering the truth...
Vivian moved Elena to another hidden room inside the estate.
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The one place nobody ever searched...
His own home.
