Why?” Leticia demanded.

He swallowed.

“Because the woman you left walking in the rain is Graciela Villanueva’s only daughter.”

Emiliano’s phone slid out of his hand and clattered against the hardwood floor.

Chapter 9 — The Stranger

For the first time, the family understood that the “stranger” they had just humiliated held the power to level everything they had spent years building — in a single afternoon.