Chapter 1 THE TRUTH BEHIND LOCKED DOORS Returning to his Las Lomas mansion after six grueling months of long-distance work,
THE TRUTH BEHIND LOCKED DOORS
Returning to his Las Lomas mansion after six grueling months of long-distance work, millionaire Alejandro Santillán thought he would finally hold his five-year-old quadruplet daughters—Valeria, Camila, Regina, and Sofía. Instead, he stepped into a chaotic, drunken party filled with complete strangers, where his new wife, Jimena, danced intoxicated on top of the dining table, covered in a lavish diamond necklace.
Alejandro’s eyes drifted toward the hallway leading to his daughters’ rooms. It was pitch black. Ice cold.
Storming away from the loud crowd, he slammed open the private back dining room door. The wealthy father’s entire world instantly shattered.
His four little girls were huddled at the far end of a massive table in thin nightgowns, their bare feet purple from the winter cold. No party, no gifts, no warmth. The only thing on the table was a single plastic plate holding rock-hard scraps of stale bread, heavily covered in green mold. Upon seeing him, Valeria panicked and tried to hide the plate, Camila began to sob, and the youngest, Sofía, scrambled beneath the table in absolute terror.
“We're sorry, Daddy. We weren't going to eat much…” The children's desperate pleas made his heart bleed. Upon demanding answers, he unearthed a sickening truth: Jimena had forced them to eat moldy bread, telling them that "pretty girls don't need food." Even more heartbreaking than physical starvation, Alejandro realized his daughters had been psychologically abused to the point where they were terrified to admit they were hungry.
The presents slipped from Alejandro’s hands as a wave of pure, lethal fury flooded his veins. This Christmas Eve was only beginning, and he swore to unearth every dark secret Jimena was hiding, making sure she paid a devastating price for what she did to his children.
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