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The sound of a heart monitor echoed in my ears. A sharp pain behind my eyes and the feeling of my brain throbbing.I opened my eyelids with effort. The white light from the ceiling blinded me for a moment, and the sensation was as strange as it was familiar. The ceiling was white, flat, and had a small crack in the left corner.That crack...My heart stopped.I... I had seen that ceiling before. Not once. Hundreds of times. It was the same one I saw when I was hospitalized after a nervous breakdown... five years ago.But that didn't make sense."Isabella?" said a trembling voice.I turned my face. Eva, my best friend, was sitting next to my bed, tears in her eyes."How... how long have I been here?" I asked, my voice raspy."Three days. You said you were going to accept Benjamin's offer and then... you collapsed. You said something about chest pain and lost consciousness."Benjamin.My stomach clenched.It wasn't possible. The last time I saw Benjamin Arriaga... I was screaming for he

Monday, 8:15 a.m.The Del Valle & Associates building was even more imposing in broad daylight. The glass reflected the sun as if it were a structure made of hardened light. Every step I took inside was a reminder of my new life: this time, I was playing on a different board.I had been assigned to Room B, in the south wing, a space shared with three other architects. The youngest, Pablo, couldn't have been more than twenty-four. Eva—not my friend, another Eva—was a woman in her fifties with gray hair tied back in a neat bun and a bright gaze. And finally, Daniel: arrogant, confident, one of those who believe that women are meant to be housewives and raise children."First time doing something serious?" he asked me without looking up from his monitor."First time working with adults, yes," I replied, without smiling.Pablo choked on his coffee. Eva gave me a quick, approving look.Román Del Valle didn't show up until eleven. He entered like a powerful shadow, reviewing plans, pointing

The meeting room quickly dispersed. Some came over to greet Benjamin, others simply returned to their tasks. I headed straight for Room B. I needed space. Not to hide, but to think calmly.Less than five minutes had passed when the door burst open."What the hell are you doing here?" Benjamin snapped, closing the door behind him so hard that the glass wall shook.I turned slowly, putting down the pen I was using to review the blueprint."Excuse me?""Don't tell me you didn't know I'd be working on this project. Did you disappear because of me?"His voice was full of indignation, but I knew that tone well. It wasn't pain. It was loss of control."Benjamin, I didn't disappear because of you," I said coldly. "I left for myself.""And not even a message? A phone call! An 'I don't want to be with you anymore'! After everything we planned...""Planned?" I laughed humorlessly. "You planned. I just followed your ideas because I thought you loved me. I was wrong."His face tensed."Is Roman pa

The midday wind kicked up dust on the construction site as if the land itself were protesting being tamed. I walked alongside Roman, Eva, and a technical team as we inspected the reinforced foundations of the south wing of the Aurea Project.Roman spoke little, as usual, but his eyes took everything in. He had a small notebook in which he wrote incessantly. He didn't use cell phones or tablets. He liked the physical, the tangible. "Technology can fail, but paper endures," he said."What do you think of this section?" he asked me suddenly, pointing to a newly assembled structure.I crouched down and touched one of the steel supports. The anchor was fine, but I noticed a slight deviation in the foundation."Two centimeters off the north axis," I said.Daniel snorted."That's insignificant.""Insignificant if it were a gazebo. This is going to be a twelve-story tower," I replied, without looking at Daniel. "In the long run, it can cause uneven settling. Leaks. Structural damage."Roman l

The morning after dinner at the Del Valle's house, the company woke up to a scandal on social media.A note published on a business gossip website insinuated that Román Del Valle was having an "inappropriate relationship" with one of his employees, and that his "closeness" had displaced consultants with years of experience, such as those from TierraNova.They didn't mention my name.But it didn't take long for social media to find it.A blurry photo—taken from a distance, probably from a drone—showed Román talking to me at the construction site, near the restricted area. In the image, he had his hand resting on a railing, I was holding some plans, but they overlapped in such a way that it looked like he was holding me. Added to that, many people knew that my ex was Benjamin and could conclude that the accusations against TerraNova were just out of spite from a woman helped by her new lover. Therefore, the photo was not compromising at all... except for those who wanted to misrepresent

Progress on block three was on track. We had finalized the structural plans, and the technical team was already beginning to lay the first stages of the foundation. Eva gave me accurate reports, and Pablo, although somewhat clumsy, functioned as a willing assistant.I took refuge in my work. Not to escape, but because, for the first time in a long time—in any life—I felt like I was building something that wouldn't collapse beneath my feet.But there was another reason.Over the last few days, I had secretly researched the construction company's archives. Thanks to my access to historical projects, I managed to find plans and records of an old project related to the Arriaga Group. The same project Benjamin asked me to help with a year ago.The name was different: Operation Altos del Sur. A housing development on an unstable hill that should never have been approved.And in the attached documents, I found what I was looking for: a falsified geological report. The original report, signed

Camila and Daniel's betrayal shook the foundations of the Aurea project. For days, I was the shadow of an accusation that did not belong to me. They watched me with suspicion, questioning me with poisonous smiles. Daniel had manipulated plans, altered delivery dates, and diverted funds under my name. Camila leaked selected documents to incriminate me, subtly constructing the image of an ambitious woman who played dirty.But they made a mistake.With Eva and Javier's help, I accessed security logs and server backups they didn't know existed.We found a series of transfers made from Camila's account to a shell company registered in Daniel's cousin's name. The altered blueprints had metadata proving they had been modified from Daniel's computer after hours. I downloaded everything, organized it, and took it straight to Román Del Valle.He didn't say a word as he reviewed the folder.He didn't need to.Hours later, Camila was suspended indefinitely and the guards were instructed to bar he

In the afternoon, more journalists arrived. Security kept them at bay, but every time I pushed the glass door, I could smell the collective anxiety like ozone before a storm. I worked until the blueprints ceased to be lines and became spaces again: light, echoes, lives inside. That was my truth. No one could touch me there.When I left, the sky was the color of graphite. A dark sedan was waiting for me. The driver rolled down the window."Engineer Del Valle asked me to take you," he said.For a second, I wanted to refuse. Then I thought of the cameras. I got in.We didn't speak during the ride; the silence didn't bother me. The car moved like a fish in a river of horns until we left downtown behind. He dropped me off two blocks from my building, invisible to prying eyes. Before getting out, the driver bowed slightly."Same time tomorrow, Miss Ferrer."***I slept little. I dreamed of a tape measure passing over my skin: one, two, three... fine adjustment. I woke up with the first ray

The city had a different rhythm on Sunday afternoons. The noise of traffic mingled with a strange silence, as if everyone were breathing more slowly. I went out for a walk without an escort, without my architect's helmet, without folders under my arm. Just a coffee in my hand and my cell phone turned off. I needed to forget for a couple of hours that my life had become a chess game against opponents who didn't know the rules.The street was almost empty. The trees cast long shadows on the sidewalk. Then I heard it.The roar of an accelerating engine.I turned my head just in time to see a black car violently turn the corner. The tires screeched. The headlights blinded me.For a second, I thought I wasn't going to move. That this time I wouldn't get a second chance. My body wouldn't respond. Time stood still."ISABELLA!" a voice shouted behind me.Arms pushed me hard. I rolled across the sidewalk, coffee spilling onto the ground. The car grazed me, inches from my face, and disappeared

Three days later, Camila reappeared on the scene.Eva called me from the underground parking lot."Don't go into the office yet," she whispered. "Camila is here. With Benjamin."I ran to the second-floor window. There they were, talking to two men in dark suits near the side entrance. Camila was laughing. Benjamin was gesturing. A third man was receiving an envelope.Roman entered the office at that moment. Seeing my expression, he quickly approached me."What's going on?""Look at them."He leaned out, frowning. He grabbed his phone."They're not walking through that door today. Not while I'm here.""What do you think they're planning?"Roman turned to me, serious."Something big. And not against me.""Against Aurea?"He shook his head."Against her, but until we have solid evidence to accuse them of the attack you suffered, we can only wait and be smarter about what comes next."That night, my cell phone vibrated while I was checking social media.A hidden number."Don't hide behind

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