CHAPTER 230
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Inside the car, silence reigned.

The envelope sat in Javier’s lap like a loaded weapon, sealed with the same crimson crest his mother used for personal matters—never business. Valeria sat beside him, her arms folded, though not out of frustration—out of calculation.

Javier stared at the seal. For a moment, it felt like a doorway back in time. Back to the cold study where his mother would sip black tea, signing letters by hand. Always using that seal for things she wanted him to read only after she was gone.

He had believed he read them all.

Valeria broke the silence. “Do you believe him?”

“I believe he’s alive. And that he was supposed to stay dead.”

She looked at the envelope. “You think there’s really something in there?”

Javier’s jaw shifted, just slightly. “Yes.”

He didn’t tear the seal.

Instead, he reached into the panel of the door and retrieved a small steel blade—a clean, precise instrument usually used for documents too valuable to rip.

Valeria watched him silently as he slid
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