Three senior partners vanished after draining millions from company accounts through fake permits, inflated contracts, and shell corporations. Lawsuits hit first. Then frozen assets. Then investigators. Every news station in Miami repeated my name beside words like fraud, corruption, and bankruptcy.
The mansion survived.
Barely.
Everything else disappeared.
The sports cars went first. Then the vacation homes. Then the yacht. My wife, Vanessa, lasted exactly two more weeks before leaving with designer luggage, jewelry, and a divorce attorney who smiled like a man already counting his fee.
Only one person stayed.
Rosa Martinez.
She arrived before sunrise every morning in the same faded blue dress, gray-streaked hair pinned neatly back, rough hands already working before I had enough strength to face the day.
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