"You're nothing without me!" He shouted it while raising his hand against his own wife — eight months pregnant,
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Chapter 8 / 15
Chapter 8: Carmen’s Last Game
Carmen Rivas tried to save herself.
She invited reporters to the mansion and cried about betrayal. She called Elena unstable. She claimed Alejandro had manipulated everything.
But she forgot one thing.
The house had cameras.
Not hidden illegally. Not planted recently.
Security cameras had been there long before Elena married Santiago.
When the footage was released to the court, Carmen’s performance ended.
Her calm warning from the staircase was heard clearly.
“Do not leave visible marks.”
The sentence destroyed her reputation more completely than any speech could have.
Society women stopped answering her calls.
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Charity boards removed her name.
The Rivas family became a cautionary story whispered over expensive coffee.
