“My name is Licenciado Alonso Benavides. I represent Magdalena Reyes in the execution of a civil recovery order, a property title correction, and a financial fraud complaint already admitted in Mexico City and Guanajuato jurisdictions.”
The street changes.
You can feel it physically.
The neighbors do not merely watch now; they listen. A bicycle slows at the corner. A woman across the street opens her front door wider under the pretense of shaking out a rug. Lupita’s face begins to shine with sweat.
Your mother laughs.
Too loudly.
A brittle ugly sound.
“This is ridiculous. Magdalena owns nothing here.”
Benavides opens the briefcase.
“That,” he says, “is exactly what we came to correct.”
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