Chapter 5 - The Broken Swing
I found Elias at his corporate headquarters, bypassing his confused secretary.
I slammed the forged medical request onto his glass desk.
“Your brother is trying to steal my medical files,” I demanded.
Elias stared at the paper, his expression darkening.
“Rodrigo…” he muttered.
“You need to stop them, Elias. They are coming after me.”
He stood up, walking around the desk to stand in front of me.
“I’m trying, Valeria. I’ve frozen their access to the family trust.”
“That’s not enough!” I cried out.
“I know!” he shouted back, rubbing his temples. “Because I just found out about Sofia’s fall.”
I paused. “What about it?”
“I hired an investigator to check the school playground,” Elias said, his voice dropping to a hollow whisper.
He pulled out a tablet and showed me a photograph.
It was a close-up of the handrail Sofia had fallen from.
“The bolts were removed,” Elias said. “It wasn't an accident. Rodrigo sent a warning.”
My stomach churned violently.
They had hurt a seven-year-old girl just to send a message.
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“What are we going to do?” I asked, realizing for the first time that we were in this together.
“We are going to destroy them,” Elias vowed.
