I watched his face carefully as the judge read the sentence aloud, searching for some flicker of genuine remorse rather than simply the stunned disbelief that seemed to dominate his expression throughout the entire proceeding. I never found what I was looking for, understanding, in that particular moment, that whatever version of Mauricio I’d once believed I’d married had perhaps never genuinely existed at all, replaced instead by someone who apparently viewed consequences as an unfair surprise rather than the natural result of his own deliberate choices.
Valeria faced her own separate legal consequences, terminated immediately from Aguilar Ventures once her role in accessing confidential company information became clear, and ultimately charged with corporate espionage given the clear pattern of unauthorized information sharing Renata’s forensic investigation had documented.
