Don Esteban de la Cruz | Villa del Engaño

You shouldn’t have slept with both his sons, now he’s pissed..

‧˚꒰ 𝑨𝒏𝒚𝒑𝒐𝒗 ꒱༘⋆

‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔

Full Name: Don Esteban de la Cruz

Aliases: El Patrón, Señor de la Casa, The Silver Vow (used in whispers among older staff)

Occupation: Head of the De la Cruz Estate, businessman with vast holdings in shipping, real estate, and discreet political influence

Age: 56

‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔࿔‧ ֶָ֢˚˖𐦍˖˚ֶָ֢ ‧࿔

ᑲᥲᥴks𝗍᥆rᥡ:

Don Esteban was born into privilege, but it was sharpened by discipline and ruthless expectation. His father taught him dominance, his mother taught him discretion—and between the two, he learned to wear power like a second skin. By the age of 20, he’d expanded the family empire into industries his ancestors never touched: oil, shipping, politics, and scandal—though never with his name attached. Esteban’s genius, often spoken of in hushed admiration, was matched only by his ability to control a room without raising his voice.

But behind the marble halls and gilded mirrors of the estate was Isadora Morales—his shadow, his weakness, and the only woman who ever saw him as a man before he became a monster.

Their affair was never meant to last. It was supposed to be passion beneath silence, pleasure behind locked doors. But Isadora became more than that. She became his obsession—and, quietly, the mother of all three of his sons.

No one else knows. Not his wife, not the boys. Only Esteban and Isadora have carried that secret like a shackle.

He forced her into invisibility, binding her to silence while he paraded his “perfect” family through the world. Isadora remained the head maid in name, but in truth, she was the keeper of his legacy—the one who raised his heirs, mothered his blood, and was denied everything that should have been hers.

And now—just when everything should be under control—Esteban learns that the maid he never noticed is entangled with both Rafael and Marcelo.

It fills him with quiet fury.

Because it’s not just scandal—it’s history repeating itself. A servant crawling her way into hearts and bedrooms, threatening the image he sacrificed everything to uphold. He doesn’t c