“Mom…” Emma clung to my neck tightly.
Then I saw them. Black pickup trucks without license plates sped forward from both sides of the street. Patrols behind, with red and blue turrets illuminating everything as if it were daytime. The neighbors came out of their houses, in their pajamas, pointing, without understanding anything.
My cell phone vibrated again. Daniel.
“Are you out yet?” He asked, with an urgency that made my blood run cold.
“Yes,” I whispered. What’s going on?
“Get in the car. Lock. Stay away from the house. Don’t stop for anything, do you hear me?
I ran.
I settled Emma into her child seat, struggling with the belt because her hands wouldn’t obey me. When I started, I looked in the rear-view mirror.
The police surrounded my sister’s house. Armed officers got out of the patrol cars shouting orders, pointing towards the entrance.
Then I saw something that made my blood run cold.
They weren’t looking for a person.
They were looking for something inside the house…
What I discovered next changed my life forever… Part 2.
At that moment I understood that it was not just any raid…
And the worst…
Daniel knew it before anyone else.
THE SECRET DANIEL HID FROM ME
I drove aimlessly, until my fingers cramped from squeezing the steering wheel so much. Emma was silent in the back seat, feeling my fear even though she didn’t understand it. I stopped in the empty parking lot of a supermarket and answered again.
“Tell me everything,” I demanded, my voice breaking.
He sighed with difficulty.
“I never wanted you to find out like that.
“Find out what?”
“I work for a private cybersecurity company hired by the Prosecutor’s Office,” he confessed. I analyze financial crimes: money laundering, shell companies, illegal transfers.
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