Chapter 9 - The Liquidation
The Navarro empire was dismantled piece by piece.
The federal government seized the mansions, the luxury cars, and the offshore accounts to pay back the defrauded investors. The luxury hotel chains were auctioned off. The political bribes were exposed, leading to a wave of resignations across the state government.
But Mateo’s heavy machinery business was completely untouched.
Because we had kept our books perfectly clean, and because we had refused to co-sign on their fraudulent loans, our company survived the blast radius of the family’s destruction.
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In fact, with Diego’s corrupt construction monopolies broken up, independent contractors flooded the market. Mateo’s business doubled in size within a year.
We sold our small apartment and bought a beautiful, modest ranch on the outskirts of Monterrey. It had a massive garage for Mateo to work on his engines, and a sprawling garden where the air smelled like pine and fresh rain, not secrets and expensive perfume.
