Rafael:
-When the trial against your friend begins, I will come for you -I announced with anger and regret, to my mother observing her attitude.
-What for? Are they going to give me back what they stole from me? -she asked angrily.
-Of course not! However, I want you to hear from their own lips what they did with Martin Elias’ parents, since you don’t believe me,” I assured her.
-I do believe you, son! I trust you! I just doubt the affiliation of those children with you. They could have been tattooed to make you think they are yours,” she replied stubbornly.
-I’m not going to give you any more explanations, Mom! It’s enough for me to know that they are mine. What’s more, when you meet them, you’ll be convinced, without any other proof, that they are my children,” I added, getting up from her side to leave.
-No son, please don’t go! I want to come back to live with you, in my house, my home, the one your father bought for me,” she exclaimed in anguish and with tears in her eyes.
-No, mother, I’m sorry! You know very well, that father left me as heir to his entire fortune, because of your profligate behavior,” I clarified.
-However, I am your mother and he got those assets from me,” she appealed.
-You listened, as I did, to the lawyer’s reading of the will! And you saw the results of the judgment that Dad made against you, precisely because of the influence that Mirelys and Josefina exerted on you. You didn’t mind squandering what he gave you.
-Rafael, you are my son! You can’t be as miserable with me as your father was. He took away all my rights as a widow with that will,” she said, angry and crying with rage.
-Today more than ever, I thank my father for his visionary spirit, he surely suspected that this would happen at some point.
“That’s why he left everything in my hands, for being his eldest son, who would defend and watch over our patrimony -I clarified, to remove all obsession from this one, with the mansion, the hacienda, the production company and with any other asset my father had left.
Besides, I cannot risk you mistreating or offending my wife or my children,” I announced angrily, separating from her and leaving her seated, while she shouted at me….
-Rafael! -she shouted.
-Son, don’t leave me here, please come! -she begged.
“Rafael, son, come! I’m sorry! -her cry was heartbreaking.
-Mother, you don’t love me! You have always put the affection you feel for others above me,” I cried out with my heart in pieces, remembering what I had gone through before because of her.
-Son, I’m sorry! I promise to do my part to accept your wife and your so-called children,” she insisted, but deepening the wound she was causing me, when she hesitated.
-I’m sorry, mother! I do not allow you to doubt my wife, she is an honest woman, who gave me her purity and I have been the only man in her life, but what does that matter to you? I’m sorry! -I shouted angrily and left the house, towards my van….
“I’m sorry mother, but I will not allow anyone else, to manipulate my relationship with Sofia and my children” I thought, getting into the van and listening to her screams.
Two weeks later…
The Narrator:
Having hired Rafael, the best lawyers, to represent Shayla, the extradition of Jose David, to the Island in the east, where he will answer for the crime committed, of introducing prohibited substances into the country, took place.
In addition, in Ciudad La Rosa, he had previously been sentenced to ten years in prison for domestic violence, injuries to his pregnant wife, as well as the attempted abortion.
The crime he was charged with on the eastern island was one of those that carries the longest sentence. For this reason, it was speculated in the networks and media that he will be sentenced to life imprisonment.
This process will be carried out a few months later, fulfilling the formalities of the same.
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In addition to this, the hearing against the criminals who murdered the magnate and owner of one of the best vineyards in the region, Milko Zambrano, was held. For this hearing, some of Reyner’s friends from Paradise Island were present, who were confident that he will go free.
Rafael, for this act, preferred to go without Sofia, however, he was accompanied by Benjamin, who was her assistant at the shipping company. For Camila, it was a hard blow to find out Chepa’s profession on the island and the plans with which he entered Ciudad La Rosa.
With the strong confrontation between the four of them, doubting all of them, they brought to light all the crimes in which they incurred. Including having manipulated the brakes of the vehicle in which Maria de los Angels, who was Rafael’s girlfriend, was riding.
Popeye and Brutus maintained that they obeyed the orders given by Miss Mirelys, Chepa and Reyner’s daughter, who ordered them to manipulate the brakes of her car. Hearing this, Camila felt her body fade away.
-Mom, what’s wrong? -Rafael asked, worried when he saw that his mother went to the side, “What’s the matter?
-Nothing, son, I wasn’t prepared for this! -She said, trying to straighten her body with difficulty.
-It’s just beginning! I thank you for finding the strength to witness this, please, I want you to listen and perceive with your own senses everything that will come to light. And remember, as you have treated me, that I am your son,” he said, worried and disappointed.
They continued with the confrontation, and it came out that by Mirelys’ orders, they hired the driver who was driving the truck that crashed against Camila’s vehicle. This was to lure Rafael to her. Again, she felt bad so she wanted to leave.
Camila, could not conceive how Mirelys put her life at risk, just to get Rafael, back to her, in Ciudad La Rosa. “God, how could I have been so blind with this one?” she reflected, feeling a great remorse and holding her hands to her head.
-“I’m sorry, Mom! You will stay with me until the end,” he said, feeling anger and at the same time pain, to see how she, too, ran the risk of dying just because of the whim of that evil woman.
-Rafael, if you want to punish me for all my ignorance before them, you can do it! But let me go to the bathroom,” she begged.
Rafael helped her to get up, signaled his assistant Leonel, who was sitting behind them, to accompany him to the bathroom and not to let him leave. And so he did. A few minutes later, Camila entered the room.
When she sat down again next to Rafael, she listened when Brutus narrated how Mirelys ordered to kidnap Yoly del Mar, to get her out of the way, in her struggle to conquer him. This was due to the fact that news was spreading in the networks that he was having an affair with the Medina heiress.
Rafael was about to leave the room before so much cruelty, wickedness and manipulation of that woman. And thinking that she received all the support of his mother, he felt very disappointed in the woman who brought him into the world, because she was unconditional with Mirelys.
Finally, in the afternoon, because the hearing was long, the explanation of how they planned, organized and executed Silvia’s death came up. Then, the death of her husband Milko, in order to divide his fortune between Reyner and Josefina and to disinherit little Milko Martin Zambrano.
In this hearing, it was fully demonstrated that Mirelys was Reyner’s daughter and therefore, sister of Yoly del Mar, whom she herself ordered to kidnap and beat, leaving her in a coma. When Reyner heard this, he tried to attack Popeye and Brutus.
Since in Ciudad La Rosa, there was no life sentence for the crimes, they were sentenced to serve the maximum sentence, eighty years each, for all their atrocities.
In this process, when the name of Mirelys Zambrano came up, the judge declared the presumption of death by accident, upon hearing the report of the maritime authority in charge of her search and so stated.
In addition, the judge ordered the confiscation of the assets of Reyner Medina, Josefina Rondon and Mirelys Zambrano Rondon, so that Milko Martin Zambrano, known as Martin Elias Medina, may have the assets that are part of his inheritance returned to him, prior compliance with the formalities of the law.
Camila, faced with such an atrocity, was on the verge of losing her senses. However, she was helped by her son, who gave her first aid and took her out of the courtroom after hearing the sentence handed down by the jury.
-I’m sorry, Rafael! Son, I’m sorry! All the mistakes I made in accepting Josefina’s friendship and then her daughter’s -I cry- Son, I will not have days to live to beg you to forgive me!
-Please calm down! My goal in bringing you here was simply to convince you and let you see for yourself the real truth, now, come on! -He requested- My wife and children are waiting for me…