The man who, twenty-three years earlier, had emptied his father’s restaurant safe and vanished without a single call.
My husband, Ernesto, died three days later. The doctors called it a heart attack, but I always knew the truth. His heart had broken after learning his own son had robbed us.
We once owned a small restaurant in Narvarte called La Mesa de Ernesto. It was not elegant, but it was ours. Ernesto cooked, I managed the accounts, and Alejandro served the customers. For eighteen years, we saved peso by peso to buy that place.
There had been nearly four and a half million pesos in the safe.
One morning, Ernesto walked into the office and found it open.
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