I Won Eighty-Nine Million Euros—Then My Son Asked When I Was Finally Leaving

My name is Carmen Villalba. I’m sixty-eight years old, and for the past four years I had been living in my son Daniel’s home with his wife, Laura, just outside Valencia.

After my husband died, I sold the apartment we had shared for nearly forty years to help Daniel settle a debt he never fully explained. He promised it was temporary.

“Just until I get back on my feet, Mom.”

I believed him.