SHE STOLE YOUR HUSBAND, MOCKED YOUR PREGNANT BODY AT THE DIVORCE HEARING, AND THOUGHT SHE’D WON… BUT SHE HAD NO IDEA YOU WERE WALKING AWAY WITH A SECRET THAT WOULD TURN HER FAIRYTALE WEDDING INTO A PUBLIC

And just like that, you are no longer his wife.

The room shifts in subtle ways after those words are spoken. Damián exhales. Ruth smiles openly now, unable to hide her satisfaction. Javier closes the file in front of him with deliberate care, as though preserving a pressed flower between pages. You place your hand over your stomach and feel your son move beneath your palm, one firm kick that seems to say, Keep going.

You rise slowly.

Damián steps into your path before you reach the door.

“Well,” he says, with the polished cruelty of a man who thinks he is being generous, “I hope now you can accept reality and focus on the baby.”