He kicked out his pregnant wife for expecting a girl… but what happened on the day of the birth?

—Congratulations, sir. The baby has been born.

Javier raised his arms in joy.

-My son!

Minutes later he received a photograph.

A small baby wrapped in a blue blanket.

Without thinking twice, he sent the image to all his contacts.

“My heir!” he wrote. “He’s identical to me!”

The congratulatory messages started arriving.

Javier walked through the clinic corridors with his chest puffed out with pride.

But their happiness was about to crumble.

A nurse approached.

—Mr. Javier, we need you to sign some documents.

He nodded confidently.

He followed her to the neonatal area.

When the automatic door opened…

Her smile disappeared.

There was no child inside the incubator.

There was a girl.

Javier frowned.

-There must be a mistake.

The nurse checked the papers.

—No, sir. This is your baby.

Javier felt like the world was tilting beneath his feet.

—Impossible… Valeria was going to have a child.

At that moment the doctor entered the room with a serious expression.

—Sir, we need to talk to you.

Javier followed him to a small office.

The doctor closed the door.

—There was a complication during childbirth.

The silence grew heavy.

—The baby is a girl… and Valeria suffered a very serious hemorrhage.

Javier felt a chill run down his spine.

—Are you… are you okay?

The doctor looked at him gravely.

—We did everything we could.

But Valeria did not survive.

The words hung suspended in the air.

Javier remained motionless.

The luxurious clinic, the expenses, the dreams of an heir… everything crumbled in an instant.

In the neonatal ward, a little girl was crying softly inside her incubator.

Her only family now was the man who had wanted her only if she had been a boy.

Meanwhile, in Puebla, Lucía had also gone into labor.

Doña Herrera’s small house was filled with nerves and prayers.