“0.00%? Fernando… Mariana isn’t your daughter?”
50 guests heard it. A journalist raised his camera. My aunt-in-law Carmen stood up.
“You humiliated her her entire life knowing she was an adopted child?”
Fernando shouted:
“This is private!”
And Carmen answered:
“You called her a failure in public. Now the truth will be public too.”
Then Renata did something I never expected. She stood up crying.
“Mom, you knew. You wanted to kick her out to protect the inheritance.”
Graciela tried to silence her, but Iván interrupted her, pale.
“Dad… did you make me hate her for years just because she reminded you of a deal you made for land?”
No one laughed again. That night, the Santillán family stopped looking perfect. And my father, the man who always had answers, was left speechless in front of 50 witnesses.
