“You don’t understand corporate finance, Elena.

You’re looking at thirty-year-old family notes and confusing them with active commercial land holdings.”

“Your mother moved those land leases into Mendoza Development’s debt files this morning,” I said.

“Because the Varela Trust is an inactive shell,” Alejandro said, his voice hardening.

“Oscar checked it.

The name on those old deeds belongs to institutional investors who abandoned the parcel decades ago.”

“My father wasn’t an institutional investor,” I said.