“So you are going to take everything,” he said.
The room waited.
Sofia shook her head.
“No,” she said. “I have no interest in destroying what we built together.”
He stared at her.
“Then what do you want?”
She thought for a moment before answering. The word she chose was the right one.
“Justice.”
She placed a second document on the table. A proposed division of assets that split the company exactly down the middle. He would retain ownership of the northern stores. She would take the southern locations. From that day forward, their professional and personal lives would be entirely separate.
Alejandro looked at her for a long time, with the expression of a man trying to understand something he had overlooked for years. Then he signed the papers.
The sound the pen made against the document was small and final. Like a door closing on a chapter that had been open far too long.
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