Alejandro was gone for nearly twenty-four hours.
To most people, that would have meant nothing. But Lucía knew him well — he never stepped away from something he considered his. If he disappeared, it was because he was arranging something behind the scenes.
Carmen Ruiz noticed the shift first. After a quiet adjustment in Lucía’s treatment plan, the lab results began to improve. The liver values that had been climbing dangerously were now stabilizing. It wasn’t dramatic, but it directly contradicted the earlier warning that she had “no more than three days.”
