Her signature — her real signature, Diego, not a forged one — is on the documents that made this family everything it is.

You want to know why a woman who divorced your brother holds more power in this building than either of my sons?

Because she is the only person in this family who ever actually earned any of it.”

Diego, cornered, spat out the thing that was truly at the bottom of all of it, the belief the entire tragedy had been built on.

“And in the end,” he sneered, “her four daughters will get married off and hand everything over to other families anyway!”

And Arthur Sr. brought his palm down on the table so hard the water glasses jumped.