Her eyes filled with tears.
— “This is the truth I hid from you.”
Fernando didn’t understand.
— “Who did this to you?
And your children…?”
Sofia took a deep breath.
And finally he said:
— “I… don’t have children.”
Fernando froze.
– “That?”
— “Diego, Toño and Lupita… are not my children.”
— “So… who are they?”
Sofia’s voice trembled, but it was firm:
— “I didn’t give birth to them…
but I gave them life.”
Fernando didn’t understand.
Sofia showed her scars again.
— “These marks… are not from pregnancies.”
— “They are… selling my organs.”
Silence filled the room.
Fernando felt like the world was stopping.
– “That…?”
Tears streamed down Sofia’s face.
— “I come from a very poor family.
In my village, many children got sick and their parents didn’t have the money to treat them.”
He took a deep breath.
— “The first time… I donated part of my liver to save Diego.”
— “A year later… Toño needed a kidney.”
— “And the third time… I donated bone marrow to save Lupita.”
Fernando was paralyzed.
— “And everyone thought they were my children…”
Sofia let out a bitter laugh.
— “People don’t want to know the truth.
They just want gossip.”
Fernando fell to his knees in front of her.
— “Sofia… why did you do all that?”
She replied softly:
— “Because when a mother sees her child die… she dies too.”
Fernando cried.
He took her face in his hands.
— “Your scars aren’t ugly.”
— “They are marks of courage.”
The mother’s revelation
Then…
There was a noise at the door.
Someone was listening.
The door opened slowly.
It was Doña Teresa .
I had heard everything.
Her eyes were filled with tears.
After a long silence, he said:
— “Is this… true?”
Sofia lowered her head.
Doña Teresa approached…
and suddenly knelt in front of her .
— “Daughter… forgive me.”
Everyone was in shock.
— “You saved lives…
and people called you a woman of ill repute.”
From that moment on…
The estate changed.
