Dark Desire -2021- Web Series -

Alma’s heart stopped.

Alma sat down. “I need you to find out everything about a woman named Fabiana. And I need to know if my husband killed her.”

“I defend them. But I’m not defending anyone anymore.”

The key had cost her five hundred pesos and a lie to the building manager—she was Fabiana’s aunt, just come from the United States, didn’t anyone know where her niece had gone? The manager, a tired man with yellowed eyes, shrugged and handed over the keys. “Nobody’s been inside since the police came. Smelled bad for a while, but it’s gone now.” Dark Desire -2021- Web Series

“What did you do?”

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“She was still breathing when I left the room.” Alma’s heart stopped

“I don’t know.”

“Control,” Damián said. “Or insurance. Or maybe he wanted to see what his brother was capable of. Some men collect other people’s sins like trophies.”

Alma searched her memory. The tutoring had been Gael’s domain—he’d said he wanted to take the pressure off her, given her heavy caseload. She’d barely met the tutor. A quiet girl, she recalled. Polite. Nothing remarkable. And I need to know if my husband killed her

The reply: “She already knows more than you think.”

She put the phone back exactly as she found it. Then she went to the guest bathroom, sat on the edge of the tub, and stared at her own reflection. Forty-two years old. Still beautiful, she’d been told, though the beauty had turned sharp, like something that could cut you if you touched it wrong. She was a criminal defense attorney—she had spent two decades picking apart lies for a living. And yet the biggest lie had been sleeping next to her for over a decade.

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