“We won’t give her a single peso or a single moment of satisfaction.”

“What are we going to do about the lease default notice?” Alejandro asked, staring down at his mother.

“We’re all going to her Easter dinner,” Doña Victoria said, a cold, sharp smile spreading across her face.

“All thirty-two members of our extended family.”

“Mother, that might be a mistake,” Alejandro warned softly.

“We’ll arrive in our finest clothes, with our cousins and uncles, and we’ll watch her break when she realizes her cheap lies can’t shake this family,” Doña Victoria said.

Alejandro didn’t answer.