That afternoon the first court order was requested.

By evening the second arrived.

Álvaro was temporarily barred from removing the twins from your care or contacting hospital personnel about discharge arrangements without legal coordination. The family court judge, a woman with a reputation for hating theatrics, was particularly uninterested in a husband who tried to negotiate maternal disappearance before his daughters were a week old.

Then came the board call.

You took it from your hospital bed wearing a borrowed robe and a face too pale for vanity. Mateo sat at your left. Verónica at your right. Your mother rocked one of the babies near the window while the other slept beside you. The visual, Mateo said, was not accidental.

On screen appeared three board members and one investor representative. Álvaro joined late.

He froze when he saw the room.

Not because you looked powerful. You didn’t. You looked post-surgical, exhausted, and stitched together by medication and fury. But vulnerability on a screen can be devastating when the other side expects silence. Behind your weakness was evidence. Behind his confidence was audio.

“You scheduled this?” he asked, glaring at you.