Then with lawyers.
But this time, he failed.
The story leaked—not from gossip, but from evidence. Hospital records. Bank transfers. Testimonies from other women who had been silenced the same way.
Alejandro Valdez was arrested.
The headlines exploded.
Doña Consuelo locked herself in her room for three days.
On the fourth day, she came out—without jewelry, without makeup, without pride.
She walked straight to Maya and knelt.
“I was wrong,” she said, voice breaking. “I raised my son with wealth… but you raised children with courage. Please forgive me.”
Maya cried, not in triumph, but in release.
“I never wanted revenge,” she said. “I just wanted them safe.”
The trial ended months later.
Alejandro Valdez was sentenced.
The children were officially adopted—by Lance and Maya.
Not as charity.
