“And eventually,” Sebastián said, his voice thick, “I started believing it.”
The room went silent.
Then the cleaner, Marta — the woman who had started everything by speaking the truth — stepped forward.
“You didn’t kill Patricia,” she said softly.
Sebastián looked at her.
“Yes,” Marta continued, meeting his eyes. “You were stubborn. You worked too much. But Patricia loved you. I know because I was there the night she talked about you.”
Hortensia snapped.
“Stop lying!”
But Marta didn’t even look at her.
“She told me something while she was folding the babies’ clothes,” Marta said. “She said, ‘Sebastián is terrified of failing them… but he doesn’t know that just being there will already make him the best father in the world.’”
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