Chapter 3 - The Forged Letters of Death
Victoria completely, utterly froze in her expensive designer high heels, her heavily made-up eyes widening in a state of absolute, catastrophic, and completely world-shattering disbelief.
She looked incredibly wildly at her tall, highly imposing son as if a deeply terrifying, highly malevolent demonic spirit had just violently, unexpectedly risen directly from the deepest, darkest pits of hell.
Alejandro slowly, incredibly deliberately, and highly aggressively stepped completely around the highly scattered, violently crushed white lily petals littering the marble floor.
He approached the massive, highly expensive granite kitchen island where his highly manipulative mother had originally, proudly laid out a neat, incredibly organized stack of highly extensive, deeply fraudulent paperwork.
He completely, utterly ignored her highly pathetic, incredibly desperate, and deeply frantic attempts to softly speak to him, entirely focusing his highly intense, deeply tactical military gaze directly on the scattered documents.
They were highly detailed, incredibly specific letters and deeply clinical medical notifications that I had absolutely, completely never received or even seen in our secure household mail.
There were multiple, incredibly forged, highly official-looking notifications explicitly detailing completely fake, supposedly canceled prenatal medical appointments with my trusted obstetrician.
There were carefully, highly meticulously written, incredibly clinical notes crafted flawlessly to look exactly like highly official, deeply disturbing psychiatric evaluations from a licensed professional.
Alejandro forcefully, highly aggressively picked one of the heavy papers up, reading the incredibly harsh, completely fabricated, and deeply malicious words aloud in an incredibly low, highly dangerous, and deeply menacing tone.
"Elena consistently shows completely severe, highly untreatable emotional instability and rapidly increasing daily paranoia," he read softly, his voice completely dripping with absolute, undeniable disgust.
"She is completely, utterly, and highly legally unfit to physically or emotionally care for a highly vulnerable newborn infant in any capacity."
My deeply traumatized, highly fragile heart physically, heavily ached as I silently listened to the highly horrific, deeply disturbing narrative she had actively, meticulously constructed to permanently steal my unborn child.
It deeply, incredibly painfully felt as if a deeply sinister, highly malevolent author had systematically, completely rewritten the last eight months of my entire, deeply innocent life into a highly tragic, completely unrecognizable psychological horror story.
Then, Alejandro finally, slowly reached the absolute final, highly crucial page resting quietly at the very bottom of the heavy, highly fraudulent stack of documents.
He completely, entirely stopped breathing for a highly noticeable, incredibly tense fraction of a single second as his highly trained eyes scanned the bold header.
Beneath the massive, highly organized pile of completely fake medical evaluations sat a deeply wrinkled, highly official-looking, and incredibly heavy United States government document.
It was the exact, highly specific military casualty notice that had completely, violently, and entirely shattered my entire, beautiful world exactly three agonizing months ago.
It was the deeply traumatic, highly devastating letter officially claiming that he had been critically, completely fatally injured by a massive, highly hidden explosive device during a highly classified mission overseas.
Alejandro read the heavy, incredibly dark, and highly bureaucratic black text entirely through exactly once with complete, unbroken concentration.
Then he aggressively, highly intensely read it entirely through a second time, his incredibly sharp, highly analytical eyes critically scanning every single printed, supposedly official detail.
The incredibly heavy, deeply suffocating, and entirely complete silence in the highly luxurious, massive kitchen grew incredibly, unbearably thick, almost entirely impossible to physically breathe through.
Finally, he slowly, incredibly heavily lowered the heavy, highly fraudulent piece of paper back down onto the cool granite surface of the kitchen island.
"This is completely, undeniably fake," his voice was incredibly, terrifyingly quiet, but sharp and lethal enough to instantly, completely freeze the entire ambient temperature of the large room.
Doña Victoria immediately, highly frantically began to violently shake her perfectly coiffed head, her incredibly expensive, highly heavy pearl necklace rattling loudly and pathetically against her aging collarbone.
"Alejandro, my incredibly sweet, highly heroic boy, you are just incredibly, deeply overwhelmed from your incredibly long, highly difficult journey home," she stammered incredibly desperately, highly falsely.
"Elena has absolutely not been mentally or physically well at all since you tragically left us to bravely serve our great country."
"She constantly, wildly twists completely innocent things, she heavily, maliciously misunderstands my incredibly pure, highly loving maternal intentions."
"Mother," he incredibly sharply, completely aggressively cut her off entirely before she could speak another highly toxic, completely fake word.
He spoke entirely, incredibly too calmly for a highly trained, deeply lethal combat veteran currently looking directly at his highly battered, deeply traumatized pregnant wife.
"I know exactly, precisely, and flawlessly what an absolutely official, entirely authentic United States Army casualty notification legally looks like."
His incredibly strong, highly defined jaw tightened visibly, a highly dangerous, completely lethal, and entirely unforgiving edge bleeding deeply into his incredibly controlled, highly authoritative voice.
"This incredibly disgusting, highly manipulative document isn’t even remotely, slightly real in any possible, conceivable capacity."
"It entirely uses the completely wrong institutional formatting, the wrong official margins, and the completely wrong internal bureaucratic structure."
"Even the highly standardized, incredibly specific military font currently used on this disgusting piece of paper is completely, entirely incorrect."
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The incredibly large, highly luxurious kitchen went entirely, utterly, and completely dead silent as his highly undeniable, absolutely absolute words hung heavily in the air.
For the very first time since I had initially met the highly arrogant, deeply wealthy Doña Victoria exactly five long years ago, she looked genuinely, profoundly, and entirely afraid for her own miserable life.
