On my wedding night, I hid under the bed to surprise my husband. Instead, my mother-in-law walked in, put him on speaker, and asked, “She still has no idea?” Seconds later, I learned the shocking reason he had married me.

is probably still with her friends.”

Patricia laughed softly.

“She still doesn’t suspect anything?”

My chest tightened.

“No.”

There was a pause.

Then my new husband said something that changed everything.

“She still thinks the apartment was my wedding gift.”

I stopped breathing.

Three months before the wedding, we had purchased an apartment in Santa Fe for 6.4 million pesos.

The deed was entirely in my name.

Rodrigo had insisted on that.

He told me he wanted me to feel protected.

What Patricia did not know was that 4.