Lucía was rushed to the hospital immediately.
Daniel climbed into the ambulance.
Álvaro tried to follow.
The police stopped him.
— We just have a few questions.
He protested.
Then he tried to leave.
That was his second mistake.
At the hospital, the doctors explained to Daniel that Lucía still had extremely weak vital signs, which had probably been misinterpreted after the accident.
The baby, meanwhile, still had a heartbeat.
Daniel stayed by her side.
Meanwhile, the police examined Álvaro’s phone calls.
Then they reviewed the traffic cameras.
And an anomaly emerged.
A few minutes before Lucía’s accident, a car belonging to Álvaro had been recorded on the same road.
He had claimed he was at home.
His phone told a different story.
Then the investigators discovered something even more serious.
Lucía had recently changed her will.
A large portion of her assets was supposed to go to her child.
Álvaro, who had previously managed several family businesses, was about to lose almost all control over that money.
Daniel finally understood why his brother-in-law had been in such a hurry.
The coffin.
The signatures.
The cremation.
Everything had to happen quickly.
Far too quickly.
Two days later, Lucía briefly regained consciousness.
Daniel took her hand.
— I’m here.
Her lips moved with difficulty.
He leaned closer.
She whispered a single name.
— Álvaro.
Daniel felt his blood run cold.
The police returned immediately.
Lucía was not yet able to tell the whole story.
But that one word was enough to completely change the investigation.
Álvaro was questioned again.
And this time, the timeline no longer matched his explanations.
The real mystery was no longer simply how Daniel had noticed that movement inside the coffin.
It was understanding why a man had wanted his own sister cremated before anyone could discover that she was still breathing.
A few weeks later, Lucía survived.
So did her baby.
Daniel kept the cremation document he had never signed for a long time.
Not as a morbid keepsake.
But as a reminder.
He had come within seconds of accepting what everyone around him kept telling him.
Then something had moved.
A belly.
A life.
And an entire truth that someone had wanted to burn to ashes along with her.
