The father who called wrk his five children a “curse”… 30 years later, he came looking for them when they became powerful.

Gabriel hit his head.

“As a doctor, I swore to cure everyone. I will operate on you. I will save your life.”

Ramó’s face lit up. “Thank you! Thank you, son!”

“But,” Gabriel continued, “after you recover, don’t ever show your face to us again. This operation is the last help we will give you. With this, we repay the life you gave us. From tomorrow on, we will be strangers.”

END

The operation was performed. Ramó was saved.

Upon waking up in the hospital, María Guadalupe and her five children were already there.

They only left him the hospital bill marked as “PAID IN FULL” and a small envelope.

Inside the envelope there were 500 pesos.

The exact amount he stole from María Guadalupe in 1995 before abdicating them.

Ramó left the hospital with life in his body, but dead in his soul. He saw on television and in the newspapers the success of his children, but he could only watch from afar.

He would forever carry the remorse that the five “charges” he discarded in the past were ones that could have sustained him in his old age.