Chapter 4 - The Desperate Husband
Mateo spent three days trying to track Elena down.
He showed up at her corporate office, only to be escorted out by heavily armed security.
He tried to play the victim, telling his friends that Elena had suffered a mental breakdown.
But behind closed doors, he was drowning in debt.
Without Elena's secret injections of cash, his real estate business was completely insolvent.
He needed fifty thousand dollars by Friday to keep his shell company afloat.
He finally received a text from Elena on Thursday night.
"Meet me at the downtown café tomorrow at noon."
Mateo exhaled a massive sigh of relief.
He practiced his most charming apology in the mirror.
He was confident he could manipulate her into turning the accounts back on.
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He truly believed she was just a naive farm girl who was deeply in love with him.
He had no idea he was walking straight into a slaughterhouse.
