For the first time, her voice loses some velvet. “What does that mean?”
“It means,” he says calmly, “that the disposition of the remainder depends on fulfillment of conditions.”
You sit very still.
Conditions.
The room seems to draw tighter around the word.
Valeria laughs lightly. “Alejandro loved legal puzzles. He always thought he was writing a movie.”
You almost turn to look at her. Almost. But you keep your gaze on the attorney because instinct is beginning to tell you something your grief had not made space for before.
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