The man leaned down slightly, studying her with a strange mix of urgency and distrust.
“Where did you find them?”
“In the park,” Sofía answered. “It was raining. They were dying.”
He didn’t reply. He made a brief phone call.
Hours later, Sofía sat in a white room—too clean—with dirty hands and a shattered heart. The babies were taken from her. She heard them crying as they were carried down a long corridor. Each cry felt like something being torn from her chest.
“Can I see them?” she asked. “Just for a moment.”
No one answered.
She was questioned for hours—her name, where she came from, why she took them. They treated her like a thief, like a liar. When she mentioned the orphanage, they wrote something down and frowned.
“This is going to get complicated,” said a woman in a suit. “The father is a very powerful man.”
That night, Sofía slept on a chair. Alone. Without the babies. For the first time since finding them, she felt a different kind of cold—the cold of defeat.
The next morning, the doors opened.
Diego Salazar walked in.
He didn’t look like the billionaire from the magazines. There were no smiles, no cameras. He had dark circles under his eyes, an untrimmed beard, and a broken expression. When he saw Sofía, he stopped.
“You…?” he said. “You found them?”
Sofía nodded, lowering her head.
“I didn’t want money,” she said quickly. “I just… didn’t want them to be alone.”
Diego approached slowly, as if afraid of frightening her.
“Do you know how long I’ve been searching for them?” he asked. “They were stolen from the hospital. I thought I’d never see them again.”
Tears filled Sofía’s eyes.
“I don’t have anyone either,” she whispered. “That’s why I understood them.”
Silence followed.
“How did you take care of them?” Diego asked.
Sofía told him everything—the abandoned warehouse, the cans, the sleepless nights, how she talked to them so they wouldn’t cry, how she promised them everything would be okay even when she didn’t believe it herself.
Diego closed his eyes.
“Come,” he said at last.
He led her down the hallway and opened a door.
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