“Mom, tell me you didn’t use money for my wedding to cover the manor’s debts!”
“Everything I did was for this family!”
“Is my wedding venue even paid for?”
“Your wedding doesn’t matter right now!”
“An hour ago it was all you cared about!” Mariana shouted. “You told me Sofia would pay for everything because ‘that’s what rich daughters-in-law are for!’”
Silence fell again.
Then the family turned on itself.
An uncle demanded repayment of a personal loan from two years earlier.
A cousin wanted to know where event deposits had gone.
The same aunt who had celebrated Sofia being abandoned in the rain now demanded an immediate financial audit.
Within minutes, the supposedly close family had turned into a room full of angry creditors.
Teresa pointed at Sofia.
“Look what you’ve done to this family!”
“I didn’t do this,” Sofia replied. “I just stopped paying for it.”
She picked up her coat and zipped her bag.
Javier jumped to his feet.
“Don’t go!”
“I was gone the moment you refused to open that car door.”
