Digging further, she discovered something worse: Victor Morales had since become a judge, and his career had flourished after securing Mateo’s conviction. Even more troubling, he now had business connections with Mateo’s brother, Victor.
Meanwhile Victor himself arrived at the children’s home in an expensive black car, wearing his usual blue tie. He demanded to see Isabella. Lucinda refused.
When Isabella appeared in the doorway and saw him, fear filled her eyes instantly.
Lucinda understood immediately—this man terrified the child.
Soon afterward Margaret visited Mateo in prison. There he finally told her what Isabella had whispered.
She had seen the truth.
On the night Elena was attacked, Isabella had been awake. From the hallway she saw a man enter the house after Mateo had fallen asleep drunk on the couch.
A man she knew.
A man wearing blue.
Mateo whispered the name.
Victor.
Margaret left the prison convinced she was uncovering something dangerous. When she arrived home, she found her house ransacked. Papers scattered everywhere. On top of the case file was a photo of Elena marked with a red X and a warning telling her to stop digging.