Elea, Beto and Garza got into the truck and sped off towards the old abandoned hacienda of Carmen’s family, located on the outskirts of the town, the only place isolated enough to hide such a dark secret.
The journey took 20 minutes of pure agony. Upon arriving at the ruined hacienda, they found the truck of “El Chucho”, the local thug. Garza unsold his weapon and kicked the back door.
Chucho was sitting in the kitchen drinking a beer, and upon seeing the police, he raised his hands without resisting.
“To the basement!” Garza shouted.
Elea ran down the stone stairs, not caring about the darkness or the musty, damp smell. At the bottom, there was a heavy wooden door with 3 steel bolts.
Beto took a crowbar he found on the ground and, with the strength that only rage grants, he smashed the locks one by one.
The door creaked open. The stench of confinement, medicine, and despair hit Elea’s face.
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“Don’t hit me, Chucho, I already took the pills, I swear,” pleaded a broken, raspy voice, barely a whisper of what it once was.
Elea fell to her knees on the cold cement. “My daughter,” she sobbed, a pain that tore at her soul. “Sofia… it’s me. I’m your mom.”
The woman lowered her arms slowly. Her eyes, surrounded by deep dark circles, looked at Elea as if she were a mirage. It took her several seconds to process reality.
“Mama…” he murmured, and crawled along the ground until he fell into Elepa’s arms.
Both women embraced in a heartbreaking hug, crying loudly in the middle of that dungeon while Beto cried at the threshold and Commander Garza wiped his tears before asking for an ambulance on the radio.
The following weeks shook the entire town and uncovered a sewer of corruption that no one had imagined.
The case became a social scandal. During the investigations, Sofia, already recovering in the hospital under police protection, revealed the whole chilling truth.
Five years ago, she had discovered that Mateo and Doña Carmen were stealing money from her late father’s company and were trying to forge signatures to seize the family’s valuable agave fields.
When Sofia threatened to go to the police, they invited her to have tea at the hacienda to “reach an agreement.” They drugged her.
But the plan didn’t end there. To collect the insurance and take full control of the land without raising suspicion, he needed Sofia to legally disappear.
That is where the respected Doctor Morales, the town’s lifelong doctor, was located.
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