“If anything happens to me, Eduardo must know that Victoria Martínez has been planning my death. She has copies of my keys, knows my schedule, and threatened me last week, saying she would take everything from me— even my life, if necessary.”
The Truth Behind the Perfect Plan
Victoria collapsed onto the sofa. There was no point denying it anymore. For months, she had meticulously planned Elena’s death—studying her routines, learning basic mechanics, waiting for the perfect moment.
“I… I didn’t want it to be this way,” she whispered through tears. “I just wanted her to leave us alone. To divorce you and move on with her life.”
Eduardo stared at her with disbelief and disgust.
“So when Elena refused to divorce me, you decided to kill her?”
“She said she’d tell you everything about us. That she’d sue me for seducing a married man. That she’d make sure I could never come near you or Sofía,” Victoria sobbed uncontrollably. “I couldn’t lose this life, Eduardo. Not after growing up with nothing.”
“So you sabotaged her car, followed her that night, and when you saw she survived the initial impact…” Eduardo stopped, unable to finish the sentence.
“Yes,” Victoria admitted in a barely audible whisper. “I saw she was conscious, trying to send messages. I took her phone, thinking no one would ever know the truth. I didn’t know she had managed to press ‘send’ before…”
She couldn’t continue. The silence that followed was suffocating.
Eduardo stood slowly, still processing the magnitude of what he had heard.
“And today,” he said calmly—more frightening than any scream—“you left my daughter locked in a car under the sun. The same daughter Elena died trying to protect from you.”
“It was an accident! I forgot! I was nervous about tonight’s dinner and—”
“Nervous about a dinner while my daughter was dying of heat in your car?” Eduardo walked toward the phone. “Carmen was right. She always said there was something strange about Elena’s accident. She always suspected you.”
The End of a Perfect Deception
The police arrived thirty minutes later. Victoria didn’t resist; she knew her game was over. As they handcuffed her, Eduardo remained in the living room, holding Elena’s phone and staring at photos of his daughter in the hospital. Sofía had fully recovered, but doctors said five more minutes would have been too late. Carmen had saved her—just as she had saved the truth about Elena.