She looked at me with hatred and said:
—You don’t know who you’re messing with, Mariana. There are things about your company that still haven’t come to light.
Alejandro froze.
And I knew there was still something worse to uncover.
PART 3
I didn’t sleep that night.
Not because I was afraid of Teresa, but because of the way Alejandro had turned pale when she spoke of “things that still hadn’t come to light.” The next morning, I requested an urgent audit.
Three days later, my chief financial officer walked into my office with a red folder.
—Mariana, you need to see this.
What we found was lower than I had imagined.
Alejandro had not only shared confidential information with his mother. He had also been secretly negotiating with a competitor from Monterrey. He had given them data on routes, margins, clients, and costs. Not to formally sell the company, but to prepare his exit with a better position, presenting himself as the man who “really ran” Ruta Norte Logística.
And Teresa knew.
Worse still: she had bragged at family meals that Alejandro would soon “keep everything” or, at the very least, leave me “without control.”
