Lahat ng Kabanata ng I Gave Him Ten Years. Then I Took It All Back: Kabanata 11

After Lorenzo's situation settled, the port returned to its normal rhythm. I spent more time in the office now because there was more to handle. Every channel that had been written under my name now required my signature. It was slow at first, but by the third week it became routine.Marco did not call again. A document came through the lawyer instead. He had signed over the remaining operations, as promised. A note was attached. One line. These always should have been yours.The middleman Sofia named was gone from the circuit within a week. I did not ask where he went.I did not reply. I put the note in the file with the drug purchase records and kept signing.Two months later, the port did its quarterly count. My three freight companies, two storage docks, and the logistics lines that had been transferred since then had increased total throughput by nearly twenty percent.I stood at the window with my back straight. Wind came off the water and curled the edges of a contract waiting f