“You are still his daughter.”
Then I called the number I had not used in almost ten years.
Alexander answered with a rough, sleepy voice.
“Elena?”
I took one breath.
“Your daughter was almost killed on her wedding night.”
There was silence.
Then his voice changed.
“Send me the address. I’m coming.”
I hung up and held Sofia while she shook in my arms. For the first time since she arrived, I saw something flicker in her eyes.
Not hope.
Not yet.
But a spark.
Thirty minutes later, the doorbell rang.
When I opened it, Alexander stood there in a wrinkled shirt, pale face, and eyes colder than I had ever seen them.
The moment he saw Sofia, he dropped to his knees beside the couch.
“Baby girl…”
Sofia opened her eyes.
“Dad.”
And when Alexander saw the bruises on his daughter’s body, I understood one thing immediately.
The real storm had just begun.
Because Carmen Robles thought she had scared a young bride into silence.
She had no idea she had just awakened the one man powerful enough to destroy her entire family before the honeymoon was even over…
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