Their loyalty, it turned out, had a very precise exchange rate, and the word fraud had just moved it against Leticia.

Rafaela did not have to turn the family against her mother-in-law.

She only had to make the cost of loyalty higher than the pleasure of cruelty, and the crowd did the rest itself.

Chapter 23 — A Piece of Paper

Emiliano sank into an armchair and put his face in his hands.

“Rafaela, please.