She asked to see her daughter before she died… and what the girl whispered to her changed her fate forever.

Then it happened.

Salome slowly leaned toward her mother’s ear.

And he whispered something.

No one else heard it.

Not even the guards.

Not the social worker.

Neither Colonel Mendez, who watched from the door ajar with his arms crossed and the file still fresh in his memory.

Just Ramira.

And what the girl said was so simple, so impossible, that for a moment the woman stopped breathing.

“It wasn’t you,” Salomé whispered. I saw who he was.

Ramira remained motionless.

The tears were still falling, but they were no longer just tears of pain. They were tears of pure shock. He hugged her a little bit louder, shaking.

“What did you say, my love?” she muttered, her voice broke.

Salome barely turned away. His big eyes, strangely calm, were fixed on his mother’s.

“I saw the man in the snake watch,” he said very lowly. “He walked through the back door that night. You weren’t home when it happened.

The heart of Ramira began to beat with new violence.