Chapter 10 - The Golden Bag
What Élida Montserrat de Cabrales didn't know was the secret nestled inside the small, golden evening bag slung over Valentina's shoulder.
To Élida, Valentina was just a commoner with no significant family name who had somehow managed to bewitch her son. Valentina had always used her mother's maiden name, living a quiet, unassuming life as a financial auditor.
But inside that golden bag rested a smartphone. And in the favorite contacts of that phone was a number saved simply as "Dad."
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This wasn't just any father. This was the man who had been secretly signing the massive, multi-million dollar checks that had kept the illustrious Cabrales Group from sinking into complete bankruptcy for the past three years. This was the man who owned their debt, their assets, and their future.
Valentina pushed open the heavy double doors of the cathedral hall, the hinges groaning slightly, and stepped out into the world. She carried the golden bag, and within it, the power to obliterate the very ground the Cabrales family stood upon.
