Her mother-in-law pushed the pregnant woman off the roof…
but Elena managed to hold onto a clothesline before falling to her death.
Her body hung suspended more than ten stories above.
“Help!” she cried, clutching onto one hand while the other instinctively protected her belly.
The rope was old and thin.
Every time the wind moved her body, the fibers creaked as if they were about to break.
On the roof, Beatriz slowly approached the edge and looked down.
She didn’t seem scared.
She smiled.
“No one will save you this time,” she said coldly.
Elena looked up, crying.
“Why is she doing this?” she asked.He’s her grandson!
—That baby never should have existed.
Before Beatriz could step on the rope, Rosa, the old maid, ran out through the rooftop door.
She had heard the screams from downstairs.
Seeing Elena hanging there, she knelt down beside the edge and reached out her arm.
“Give me your hand!”
Elena tried to reach her, but the wind blew her away.
“I can’t!”
“Yes, she can! Think of her baby!”
With one last effort, Elena raised her arm.
Rosa managed to grab her by the wrist.
“I won’t let her go!”—he promised.
The old woman slammed both of her knees against the floor and started to scream.
But Beatriz ran towards her, grabbed her hair and pulled with all her strength.
“Let her fall!”
Rosa screamed in pain, but she didn’t release Elena’s wrist.
“I won’t allow her to kill a mother and her child!”
Beatriz started to hit her on the back.
“You’re nothing more than a servant!”
—and you’re nothing more than a murderer.
Beatriz’s face changed.
She gave her a kick in the side.
Rosa fell partially onto the edge, but she continued to hold Elena.
The rope began to slowly snap.
Elena felt herself falling several centimeters.
“Rosa, I’m falling down!”
—she shouted —“Help us!”
At that moment, the rooftop door opened.
Daniel appeared.
Elena’s husband.
She felt fear disappear for a moment.
“Daniel!” she shouted —“Help us!”Your mother tried to kill me!
Daniel looked at his wife hanging there, Rosa injured, and his mother next to the edge.
For several seconds, he said nothing.
Elena expected him to run towards them.
But Daniel slowly closed the door behind him.
Then he took a knife out of his jacket.
Rosa looked at him in horror.
“Mr. Daniel …”
— Get out — he ordered.
— His wife is carrying his son — he said.
Daniel approached the rope.
Elena began to shake her head in denial.
— Daniel, please … We can talk.Just help me climb up.
He crouched down and placed the knife blade against the rope.
—That baby can’t live.
—It’s your son!
Daniel looked up.
Precisely for that reason.
And he cut the rope.
Elena screamed.
Rosa, who was still holding her wrist, was dragged along with her.
The two fell to their deaths.
During the fall, the old woman hugged Elena and turned her own body to protect the young woman’s belly.
Elena closed her eyes, convinced that they would die.
But then her shoulder hit a balcony below.
Instinctively, she reached out and held onto the railing.
The impact was brutal.
Elena felt unbearable pain in her arms, but managed to stop the fall.
Rosa, however, got stuck underneath her.
Her body was trapped between Elena’s legs alone.
“Rosa!”—she shouted.
The old woman looked up.
She had blood on her forehead and could barely breathe.
—Don’t move…
—I can’t hold her!
Elena was half outside the balcony.
Her hands were slowly sliding over the metal.
Rosa’s weight pulled her down.
Daniel and Beatriz peered down from the rooftop.
—They’re still alive — Beatriz said, furious.
Daniel looked at his wife without showing any emotion.
—Not for long.
Elena looked at her with tears in her eyes.
—¿How could you do this to your own child?
Daniel remained silent.
Rosa mustered her courage to speak.
—Because she knows the baby will reveal the truth.
Beatriz paled.
—Shut up!
Elena looked down.
—¿What truth?
Rosa forcefully squeezed Elena’s legs to prevent her from falling.
—Daniel never wanted you to get pregnant.
—That doesn’t make sense.
He asked me to start a family.
—Because he needed an heir before his father died —
Daniel leaned over the edge.
—Rosa, if you speak again, I will kill your daughter.
The old woman was paralyzed.
Elena looked at her.
—¿Your daughter?
Rosa closed her eyes.
For thirty years, she had lived in the mansion without mentioning that she had a family.
—I thought she was dead — she whispered.
Daniel smiled.
—No, she isn’t. And we know exactly where to find her.
—Leave her out of this! — Rosa shouted.
—Then release Elena.
Rosa looked at her.
If she released her legs, she would fall into the void.
If she continued to talk, Daniel would carry out his threat.
Elena felt one of her fingers slip from the railing.
—Rosa, I need to know. — There’s no time.
—Why do they want to kill my baby? —
The old woman looked up.
Beatriz shook her head in denial, warning him to keep quiet.
Rosa took a deep breath.
—”Because Daniel is not the true heir to this family.”
Elena felt her heart stop beating.
—¿What?
—Daniel’s father discovered that Beatriz had switched her baby in the hospital thirty-five years ago.
Daniel clenched his knife in anger.
—”Enough!”
Rosa continued:
“—Daniel doesn’t have the blood of the Valdés family. If his child is born and the genetic tests required by the will are carried out, everyone will find out.
Elena tried to understand him.
—¿So, do you want to kill my baby to avoid a DNA test?
—No, that’s not it.
Rosa looked intently at Beatriz.
—”Daniel’s baby does belong to the Valdés family.”
Elena opened her eyes.
—¿How is this possible if Daniel isn’t their son?
The old woman hesitated.
Daniel started running towards the rooftop door.
Beatriz followed him.
—”Hurry!”They’ll enter through the lower floor!
Elena heard them disappear through the stairs.
They were coming toward the balcony.
—”Rosa, tell me!”
—The real heir had a son before he disappeared.
—”Who?”
Rosa looked at Elena’s belly.
—”The baby’s father.”
Elena felt nauseous.
—”Daniel is the father.
“—That’s what you believe.
—I never had an affair with another man.
Rosa slowly denied it.
—”Several months before the wedding, she had an accident. She was unconscious for several days.
Elena remembered the hospital.
Daniel had always been at her side.
At least, that’s what they told her.
—”What happened while she was unconscious?”
Rosa began to cry.
—”Beatrice paid a doctor to perform a procedure without her consent.”
—”What procedure?”
Before Rosa could answer, the apartment door opened.
A woman stepped out onto the balcony and shouted at them as they hung there.
—”Oh my God!”
She ran towards Elena and tried to grab her arms.
—”Don’t let go!”My husband is calling for help!
Elena felt a little relieved.
But then there were knocks on the main door of the apartment building.
“Open up!” Daniel shouted from the hallway. “This is my wife!”
The woman on the balcony looked inside.
“Is that man your husband?” Elena shouted.
“Don’t open the door for him!” Elena shouted. “He tried to kill us!”
The knocks grew louder.
“Open the door right now!” Elena shouted to her husband.
“Call the police too!” Rosa began to lose strength.
“Elena … ”
— Don’t let go of me!
— She must try to drag me down.
“No!” Elena shouted.
“My weight will kill us both.”
I won’t let her go.
Rosa smiled sadly.
“I always wanted to have a daughter like you.”
Elena vehemently shook her head.
— Don’t let go of me.
The main door began to give way under the blows.
Daniel was trying to knock it down.
Elena looked at Rosa’s hands.
One of them was slowly moving away from her leg.
“No!” Elena shouted.Hold on!
—Listen carefully — the old woman said — There’s a box behind the mirror in my room. Inside you’ll find the hospital records.
“What records?”
—The documents that prove who the real father of your child is.
“Tell me his name!”
Rosa opened her mouth.
But at that very moment, the apartment door burst open.
Daniel entered with a knife in his hand.
Beatriz followed behind him.
The man from the house tried to stop him, but Daniel struck him and ran toward the balcony.
The woman screamed.
“Get away from them!”
Daniel raised the knife.
“Release her, Rosa.
Elena clung to the railing as her fingers kept slipping.
“Who is the father of my baby?”—she shouted.
Rosa looked at Daniel.
Then she looked at Elena.
The real father is…
Daniel threw the knife.
The blade flew straight towards them.
Rosa tried to pull her hand away.
The movement caused their legs to separate from Elena.
The old woman began to fall.
—Rosa! —Elena tried to grab her, but she lost another finger from the railing.
Daniel ran to the edge to finish the job.
Then a male voice sounded behind him:
—Touch my son again, and I will kill you.
Daniel remained still.
Beatriz lost color in her face.
Elena looked up.
In the entrance to the apartment, there was an unknown man.
He held an old photograph of the Valdés family in his hand.
His face was exactly the same as Daniel’s late father’s when he was young.
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