That night, Alejandro found them awake.
“She’s singing to us,” Lucía said.
“What song?”
They hummed a lullaby Alejandro remembered—one Rosa used to sing while pregnant.
The next day, he returned to the plaza.
The woman appeared again, calm, waiting.
“My name is Rosa Álvarez,” she said. “Rosa—your wife—was my daughter.”
Alejandro’s breath vanished.
She revealed the truth: forced adoption at seventeen, decades of searching, and a lie told by Claudia Vega—Alejandro’s sister-in-law—who claimed Rosa had died. Photos and documents proved it.
Then came the revelation that changed everything.
“Your daughters are not truly blind,” Rosa said. “They were conditioned.”
Medical records were investigated. Files altered. Sedatives secretly administered. The blindness diagnosis traced back to one doctor—Dr. Manuel Ortega, recommended by Claudia.
The truth was horrifying.
Claudia had manipulated everything—medical fraud, psychological conditioning—all to gain control of the girls and their inheritance.
Confronted, Claudia didn’t deny it.
“A judge would’ve given them to me,” she said coldly. “A single father with three blind children wouldn’t stand a chance.”
“You wanted control,” Alejandro said quietly.
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