Time stood still in that mansion.
Literally.
Roberto, standing in the doorway, felt the air escaping from his lungs.
Before him, the scene was a slow-motion nightmare.
His wife, Vanessa, had her hand raised, her fingers clenched like claws, ready to deliver a brutal blow.
But not against an adult.
The attack was aimed at Sofia, his seven-year-old blind daughter.
And in the middle, like a trembling but firm human shield, was Maria.
The housekeeper had her eyes closed, waiting for the impact, protecting the girl’s head with her own body.
But the worst part wasn’t the violent gesture.
That’s what Vanessa shouted just before she lowered her hand.
A phrase that stuck in Roberto’s brain like an ice pick:
“Get out of the way, you stupid servant! I’m fed up with this useless girl! She should have died in the accident with her mother!”
The silence that followed that sentence was sepulchral.
Vanessa was breathing heavily, her face contorted with anger.
Maria sobbed silently, hugging the knees of little Sofia, who was paralyzed with terror.
And then, Roberto took a step.
Just one.
The sound of his leather shoe against the marble floor sounded like a gunshot in the room.
Vanessa turned around abruptly.
The color drained from her face in a second.
He went from red fury to a deathly pallor.
“Ro… Roberto?” she stammered, slowly lowering her hand, as if she could erase what she had just done.
Roberto did not respond.
He looked at her with a coldness she had never seen in her three years of marriage.
“My love, you’re early…” she tried to say, forcing a nervous smile that looked more like a grimace. “It’s not what it looks like, I swear.”
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