Chapter 3 - THE TRAITOR’S WEB
She navigated the servant corridors, moving like a ghost. She knew the security cameras on the east wing were blind for sixty seconds every hour during the server reset. Timing her escape, she slipped through the kitchen and out the service door into the humid Monterrey night. As they hid in the dense brush near the perimeter wall, Valeria examined Mateo's neck. The poison was taking a toll; his pulse was dangerously irregular. She realized Renata hadn't acted alone. The young wife, desperate for full control of Alejandro’s empire, had bought the doctor. They needed Mateo dead before Alejandro returned from his syndicate meetings in Europe.
