She tore it into pieces and let them fall into the trash can.
Alejandro did not deserve a response.
The true response lay in the apartment she had reclaimed.
In the protected bank accounts.
In the company that continued to grow.
In the scar that no longer caused her shame.
And in the life Valeria had built after leaving the ring on that table.
Because Alejandro had believed that by throwing boiling coffee at her, he was teaching her to obey.
He never imagined that, in reality, he was providing the very strength needed to destroy every lie upon which his power had been built.
