“Why did you hide all of this?”
The old woman was silent for a moment.
Then she walked toward the window and looked out at the dark garden of the mansion in Batangas City, Philippines.
“You wouldn’t understand,” she replied.
But Marco did not stop.
“She knew you had done something,” he said, still holding the letter.
“Is that why she died?”
The silence in the room grew heavy again.
It took a long time before Doña Teresa spoke.
“There was an accident,” she said calmly.
“But not every accident is simply an accident.”
Marco’s eyes widened.
Because the way she spoke…
it seemed that part of the truth was still being hidden.
In his wife’s letter, there was one line that kept echoing in his mind.
“If anything happens to me, find the truth… even if it causes pain.”
Marco tightened his grip on the letter.
At last, he understood why Doña Teresa had married him after his wife died.
It was not because of love.
But because of fear.
Fear that one day he would discover the secret the family had hidd
