Chapter 2 - Rafael Presses Play On The Hidden Audio File
The heavy silence in the grand foyer felt suffocating as Rafael Montes stared down at his glowing smartphone screen. Alejandro took a threatening step forward, but Rafael’s lead security detail immediately blocked his path with cold, unyielding precision.
“You have no right to play that file, Rafael,” Alejandro hissed, his knuckles turning white with suppressed rage. Rafael ignored him entirely, his thumb hovering over the digital play button with deliberate slowness.
“My daughter is holding my grandson, and your mother is standing here shaking like a leaf,” Rafael stated coldly. “I have every right to hear what led to this violence.”
Elena clutched little Nicolás tightly against her chest, her heart hammering against her ribs like a trapped bird. The digital progress bar on the screen ticked forward, revealing the audio timeline captured by her smartwatch minutes before the fall.
Rafael pressed the speaker icon, letting the amplified sound fill the high-ceilinged room. A faint rustling of fabric echoed first, followed by the sound of pouring wine against crystal glass.
Then Victoria’s voice came through the speaker, crisp and anxious in the empty hallway. “You can’t keep doing this, Alejandro; it happened before, and you know how it ended.”
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Alejandro’s face drained of color as the past he thought he had buried came back to haunt him. Elena gasped softly, looking between her husband and her mother-in-law with absolute disbelief.
“What did she mean by ‘again’?” Elena demanded, her voice cutting through the tension like a razor. Victoria slumped against the marble wall, burying her face in her trembling hands as the terrible truth began to unravel.
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