He was sentenced to life imprisonment for a crime he didn’t commit. Before being taken to prison, he asked to hold his newborn son for just one minute. But what he did while holding the baby shocked the entire courtroom and a multimillionaire.

Tomás Vera had not died on the same day.

He had survived two weeks in hiding.

Two weeks spent saving files, copying documents, and gathering everything I could as preparations for Mateo’s downfall drew closer.

On the eve of the verdict, he managed to approach Clara outside the hospital.

He didn’t dare speak to her face to face.

She only found one cleaning lady, an older woman named Amália, and begged her to sew the keepsake onto the baby’s blue blanket.

“He will only touch her arms if the judge allows it,” he told her.

—And what if they don’t allow it?

Then nobody will know the truth.

Amalia accepted, crying.

The following morning, she left the blanket in the maternity ward as if it were just another one among many others.

Hours later, Tomás was found dead inside a burning car on the outskirts of the city.

Vicente believed he had eliminated the last threat.

He hadn’t counted on a convict who, while carrying his son for even a minute, would notice even the tiniest extra stitch in the seams.

Because a father knows when something is touching his baby where it shouldn’t.

The red notebook appeared in the house in Valle Escondido.

With names.

Dates.

Payments.

Police officers, witnesses, experts.

A completely rotten machine.

The arrests occurred one after the other.

Inspector Ledesma.

Witness Cifuentes.

The court-appointed lawyer who let the case die.

Two judicial assistants.

A medical examiner.

The network was so large that, for weeks, nothing more was said about it.

And amidst the chaos, Mateo was freed.

Not with a polite apology.

Not with a proper apology.

He emerged pale, thin, with new dark circles under his eyes and a scar on his eyebrow that he didn’t have before the trial.

But he managed to get out.

Clara was waiting for him outside the temporary detention center where he had been transferred while his sentence was being overturned.

She was carrying Leo in her arms.

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