Chapter 8 - Claudia Admits Why She Notarized
Claudia eventually admitted notarizing the false financial disclosure.
Her lawyer was present.
So was mine.
She said Alejandro brought the document to her and claimed I had signed
it earlier.
He told her my surgery schedule made it impossible to arrange a second
meeting.
Claudia knew notarization required proper verification and presence.
She did it anyway.
“Why?”
She cried.
“Because he said the building would become our security.”
There it was.
Not romance.
Not friendship.
Money.
Claudia had believed Alejandro’s promises partly because she wanted the
life attached to them.
I did not need to turn her into a monster.
The truth was enough.
She had been my friend.
She had slept with my husband for years.
She had a child with him.
Then another.
And she helped validate a document designed to move my property.
Her cooperation with investigators later mattered.
So did her responsibility.
Both could be true.
She surrendered messages showing Alejandro repeatedly discussing my
assets.
One message, sent during my preoperative hospitalization, read:
If her memory is affected, we can resolve the rest later.
I read it twice.
Then I handed the phone back.
For the first time since surgery, I felt afraid.
Not of losing Alejandro.
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Of how little he had believed I mattered once I became medically
vulnerable.
