Just hours earlier, I had been a bride.
Now I felt like prey.
I thought about screaming. Running. Calling the police.
But something inside me told me to stay calm.
I picked up my phone and texted Gabriel:
“I heard everything. They want me to sign so they can take my house. Please help me. Don’t tell them.”
He replied almost instantly.
“Stay calm. Don’t open the front door. I’ll come through the patio.”
When he arrived, his face was pale, his eyes filled with anger.
“I’m sorry,” he whispered. “I knew my mom and Julián had done questionable things before… but I never thought they’d go this far.”
My voice trembled.
—Before? What do you mean?
Gabriel swallowed hard.
—You’re not the first woman they’ve tricked… just the first they planned to destroy like this.
A cold wave ran through me.
And inside that house where I had been welcomed as family, my brother-in-law and I began planning something that would turn their trap into their worst nightmare by sunrise.
