Beautiful Butterfly
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"Get rid of it."
Six years later, those three words still echo in Valentina's chest every time she looks at her daughter's face. Mateo Castillo never wanted a child with the wife he never chose. So she buried the truth, built an empire in secret, and learned to survive on nothing but her own strength.
Then he walks in carrying another woman's blood on his shirt, and asks Valentina to fix what he broke.
"Who were you talking to?" he demands, eyes narrowed on the laptop she just slammed shut.
"Nobody," she lies, hiding five years of secrets in one word.
She wants out. He wants thirty days to make his affair look respectable first. She agrees, because she has nothing left to fight for in his world.
But New York gives her back her name, her career, and a man who finally looks at her like she matters. "You deserve someone who sees you," Adrián whispers, and for the first time, Valentina lets herself believe it.
Too late, Mateo realizes what he threw away.
"She's mine," he breathes, staring at a little girl with his eyes.
"She was never yours," Valentina snaps. "You made sure of that."
Betrayal. Obsession. A conspiracy neither saw coming. And a love that has to break completely before it can finally become real.
He lost her once. He will not survive losing her twice.
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