“I just received an urgent filing notice from the municipal land registry,” Samuel said, his voice grave and deliberate.

“What kind of notice?”

“Alejandro signed a preliminary debt expansion at seven o’clock tonight,” Samuel said.

“He’s borrowing twelve million pesos from the commercial development fund.”

“What did he offer as collateral?” I asked.

Samuel cleared his throat softly before he spoke.

“The sixty-acre Valle estate parcel,” Samuel said.

“He listed the Varela property as an unencumbered corporate asset.”