She showed you what she had found.

During the last eighteen months, as Álvaro expanded the company’s footprint and carefully curated his public image as a disciplined family businessman, he had also authorized a series of aggressive transactions routed through a consulting arm Lucía nominally managed. On paper, everything was framed as market expansion, brand positioning, executive operations. In reality, the structure blurred company money, personal spending, and image laundering so badly it could raise questions from tax authorities, minority partners, and any investor who enjoyed not being defrauded.

Several approvals should have required dual authorization.
Your authorization.

Some signatures had been copied from previous filings and pasted into draft templates for internal presentation decks. Sloppy. Maybe not enough for prison. Enough for scandal? Absolutely.

And then came the second bomb.