“I—I only knew he was looking for financing!”
“The signature was forged,” Sofia repeated.
The room went cold.
Mariana stared at Javier.
“You forged her name?”
“It was just to speed up the paperwork!” he shouted. “I was going to tell her before the funds were disbursed!”
“It was already in final approval.”
“But the money hadn’t reached the account!”
“And that makes it acceptable?”
The word **fraud** hung in the room.
Until then, the relatives had tried to treat everything as a family argument between an entitled bride and an overbearing mother-in-law.
Now there were documents.
Money trails.
A signature Sofia said she had never authorized.
The general manager immediately stepped away from Teresa.
“I knew nothing about this.”
“Nobody is accusing you,” Sofia told him.
Then she looked at Javier.
“I’m accusing him.”
Javier dropped into an armchair and covered his face.
“Sofia, please. We just got married.”
“Exactly.”
“Don’t ruin our marriage over a piece of paper.”
