PART 1
“Take your mistress with you, Rodrigo. But don’t even think about coming back to me.”
Valeria didn’t say those words out loud. She only heard them echo inside her mind as she read the message at 6:14 a.m., standing alone in the master bedroom of their Santa Fe penthouse. Her suitcase lay open on the bed, and in her hands she still held the blue dress she had planned to wear for their anniversary.