More Than A Business Deal

Modern

When I called my husband while trapped in a kidnapper's warehouse, he laughed. "Stop faking," he said, "my delicate mistress needs her sleep." He hung up. I signed the divorce papers drenched in my own blood, giving up everything just to escape the monster I married. His mother threw a broken umbrella at me in the rain. I had nothing-no money, no identity, no hope. But the moment I turned away, eight black Escalades encircled the street. A man in a tailored suit stepped out of a Rolls-Royce, shielding me with an umbrella. In his hand was a DNA test-and twenty-three years of relentless search. "Your last name isn't Smith," he said, wiping blood from my wrist with his handkerchief. "It's Wilder. The Wilder family. And the man who left you to die?" He smiled, icy. "He owes us nine billion dollars."

Moderno

Mi vida como artista ceramista en la Ciudad de México era una lucha diaria, pero me sentía segura junto a Mateo, el hombre con quien compartía siete años y la ilusión de un futuro. Todo se desmoronó cuando una llamada desgarradora anunció que mi madre necesitaba $20,000 pesos para una diálisis urge