**They tied a pregnant woman inside a car on the tracks, but when Daniel also locked up the maid, he condemned them to die together in front of the train.**
They left her pregnant and tied up inside a car stopped on the tracks.
Elena regained consciousness in the passenger seat. Her wrists were tied behind her back and a rope bound her ankles. She was eight months pregnant.
His mother-in-law, Victoria, was standing by the open door.
"What is he doing?" Elena asked.
Victoria closed the door, locked it, and threw the key into the grass.
—Everything will look like an accident.
Elena looked through the windshield.
In the distance, a train was moving directly towards her.
—Get me out of here! My baby!
Victoria backed away to a safe place and coldly contemplated the car.
Days earlier, Elena had found her late father-in-law's true will. The document stipulated that the first grandson would inherit the majority of the family business shares.
When the child was born, Victoria would lose control of the company. The illegal transfers she had used to embezzle millions for years would also come to light.
Elena had threatened to go to the police.
That's why his mother-in-law staged a supposed train accident.
The train blew its whistle.
Elena tried to free herself, but the ropes tightened even more. She hit the window with her shoulder.
-Aid!
Then Rosa came running out of an old house next to the train tracks. The old maid had followed Victoria after overhearing her talking on the phone with Daniel.
Seeing Elena trapped, he lunged at his mother-in-law and knocked her down.
-Murderess!
Rosa searched for the key in the grass, but couldn't find it. The train was approaching too fast.
He picked up a rock and hit the passenger window.
The glass cracked.
He hit it again until he made a hole.
—Hang on! I'm going to get her out!
Rosa reached in and tried to reach the inner lock. Before she could, Daniel appeared on the road.
Elena felt relief when she recognized her husband.
—Daniel, help us!
Daniel ran toward the car. For a second, Elena thought he would push Rosa aside to break down the door.
But he grabbed the maid from behind.
"Let me go!" Rosa shouted. "Your wife is carrying your child inside her!"
Daniel opened the back door with a spare key and pushed the old woman into the vehicle.
—Between the two of them.
Then he closed the door again and placed a large wooden board against that side of the car. He secured it between the car and a signpost, blocking both the door and the broken window.
Rosa hit the remaining glass.
—Daniel, open up!
He walked over to where his mother was.
Victoria brushed off her clothes and looked at her son with pride.
—I knew you would choose your family.
Daniel gazed at the car immobilized on the tracks.
—Now they will both die.
Inside the vehicle, Rosa pulled out a small knife she had hidden in her apron. She leaned toward Elena and began cutting the ropes.
—Don't be afraid.
—The door is locked.
—First we'll free their hands. Then we'll find a way out.
The train sounded its whistle again. It was so close now that the vibrations made the whole car shake.
Rosa cut the rope from her wrists and then the one from her ankles.
Elena tried to open the driver's side door, but Daniel had damaged the mechanism from the outside. She hit the window with the rock, though the glass barely cracked.
"We don't have time," he said.
Rosa looked inside. The doors were locked and the broken glass was covered by the board. Then she looked at the back seats.
—This car has access to the trunk.
He folded down one of the backrests. Behind it was a narrow opening.
—You go in first.
Elena tried to pass through, but her belly wouldn't fit through the space.
-Can't.
Rosa pulled on the second seat. It was secured with a metal piece.
He used the knife as a lever, but the blade bent.
The train already filled the entire windshield.
Elena began to cry.
—I don't want my baby to die.
Rosa got up from her seat and hugged her. She placed her body in front of the young woman's stomach.
—I will protect your baby with my life.
The engineer activated the emergency brakes. The wheels squealed against the rails, but the locomotive wouldn't be able to stop in time.
Rosa closed her eyes.
Then he heard a small click coming from the trunk.
The seat piece had loosened due to the vibrations.
Rosa threw again. The backrest fell.
-Now!
He helped Elena get through the opening. The young woman managed to crawl into the trunk.
Rosa followed her inside and desperately searched for the emergency release lever. She found it next to the lock.
He shot once.
Nothing happened.
Daniel had tied the trunk with a rope from the outside.
"It's locked!" Elena shouted.
Rosa took the metal piece from the seat and struck the lock. The lid lifted a few centimeters, but the rope continued to hold it in place.
The train was just a few meters away.
Rosa inserted the knife through the opening and began to cut the outer rope. The bent blade barely managed to damage it.
"Faster!" Elena pleaded.
The first fibers broke.
Then others.
The rope gave way and the trunk opened.
Rosa pushed Elena out of the vehicle. The young woman fell onto the stones next to the rails.
The old woman was about to jump when her dress got caught in the zipper.
—¡Rosa!
—Stay away from the tracks!
Elena crawled up to her and pulled at the fabric.
The train arrived.
With a final effort, Elena tore the dress and pulled Rosa out of the trunk. They both tumbled down the embankment.
The locomotive hit the car.
The impact threw him several meters and turned him into a mangled mass of metal. The board Daniel had used to block the door was flung toward where he and Victoria were watching.
The two threw themselves to the ground to avoid her.
The train managed to stop further ahead.
Rosa was still covering Elena's belly with her arms.
-Alright?
Elena placed a hand on her belly.
The baby moved.
—He's still alive.
Daniel ran down the embankment. When he saw them conscious, his face filled with fear.
—Elena, I can explain.
—You locked us inside the car.
—My mother forced me.
Victoria arrived behind him.
"Don't listen to her! She's confused about the accident. We'll say she drove onto the tracks."
The train driver approached, accompanied by several passengers.
"I saw that man place the board against the car," he said, pointing at Daniel.
Victoria tried to escape, but several people blocked her path.
Rosa took a small device out of her apron.
—I also have this.
It was a recorder connected to the mansion's security system. He had activated it before confronting Victoria. The device had recorded Daniel's words:
“Between the two of them.”
And also his final statement:
“Now they will both die.”
The police arrived a few minutes later. The railway crossing cameras confirmed everything: Victoria parking the car on the tracks, Daniel pushing Rosa inside, and both of them walking away to watch the impact.
Elena was taken to the hospital. The trauma caused her to go into contractions, and doctors performed an emergency cesarean section.
The child was born prematurely, but survived.
Rosa stayed by her side throughout the entire delivery.
—I want to name him León— Elena said. —Because he fought to live even before he was born.
Victoria and Daniel were charged with attempted murder, fraud, and conspiracy. During the trial, Daniel claimed he had only been obeying his mother.
Elena looked at him from the platform.
—Your mother prepared the car, but you closed the door. You placed the board and walked away smiling. That wasn't obedience. It was a choice.
Both received long sentences.
The true will was recognized, and the fortune was protected for León. Elena used part of the money to build a support center for women and children who are victims of domestic violence.
Rosa stopped working as a maid and became the little boy's godmother.
Years later, Elena returned with her to the old railway crossing. Next to the tracks, a plaque had been installed in honor of the train driver and those who helped in the rescue.
A train slowly passed in front of them.
"When I saw the locomotive filling the windshield, I thought it was all over," Elena confessed.
Rosa smiled.
—As long as there is a way out, there is still a chance.
Victoria and Daniel had blocked the doors, the windows, and even the trunk because they believed the train would destroy all the evidence.
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But they could not block the courage of an elderly woman who refused to abandon her mother.
And the baby who was supposed to die inside that car grew up knowing that, when his own father closed the last door, an old maid found another way out.
