Chapter 13 — Every Move Recorded

Within hours he was using the document — applying for loans, moving money into shell companies, paying down the debts that had made him desperate enough to do all of this in the first place.

Ximena spent hundreds of thousands on jewelry.

My mother booked a luxury trip on one of my cards.

They spent like people who had already inherited, like the will had already cleared, and every transaction left a mark in a system that does not forget.

I lay in a hospital bed and watched my family loot my life in real time, and I let them, because each purchase was another line in the case, another number the prosecutors could tie to a name.