—Ever since I arrived, that boy has hated me. He’s always looking at me like I’m an intruder. He’s always reminding you of his dead mother.
Carlos let go of it as if it were burning him.
—You weren’t jealous. You wanted to destroy him.
That night, an ambulance took Mateo to the hospital. Doctors confirmed he had a serious infection and that, had they waited one more day, the damage could have been irreversible. He needed surgery, a deep cleaning, and weeks of recovery.
Lorena was arrested after Carlos handed over the syringe, the plaster cast, and Rosa’s statement. She tried to claim it was all an exaggeration, that Mateo was disturbed, that Rosa had staged the scene. But the hospital, the evidence, and the boy himself told a different story.
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