Regina was still yelling through the phone, but I wasn’t listening anymore.
I just held my daughter tighter, calling her name, gently rubbing her little hands that had already gone cold and stiff.
“Regina,” I said quietly, “It doesn't matter if you want to believe me or not, but I never did anything to harm your baby with Hector. I didn’t even know you had one.”
I felt like the life had been drained from me. “Fact remains that you killed my daughter. I want a divorce.”
There was a pause on the other end of the line before I heard Regina scoff coldly.
“Still trying to play the victim, huh? Luciano, your performance is getting old.”
Then she hung up.
I stood there in a daze, still cradling my daughter’s body and walked over to Gloria.
The moment she saw us, she knew. Her eyes welled with tears. There was no saving Claudia now.
“This is my fault,” she whispered. “I should’ve never forced you to marry Regina just because I once saved your life. I used that debt to make you save the Seco Enterprises when we were drowning.”
Then she looked at me, her voice shaking.