Ernesto: The Return of the Seventh

Oliver Dionisio Mendoza had never questioned the family he belonged to.
The González Mendoza family had always been his home. Amaro González Mendoza had taught him to ride a bicycle, comforted him through scraped knees, and raised him with unwavering love. His brothers filled his childhood with laughter, arguments, and memories he cherished. To Oliver, they were simply his family.
What he never knew was that they shared no blood.
At sixteen, a truth hidden for fourteen years shattered everything he believed.
He had been adopted.
Before that, he had been a missing child.
Though grateful for the life he had been given, doubt crept into his heart. Had he unknowingly become a burden to the family who had sacrificed so much for him?
The González Mendoza family, renowned across Spain for their success in the cosmetics and technology industries, had given him a future he could never repay.
Everything changed when Oliver was taken to a police station for a crime he didn't commit. Unable to speak because of selective mutism and with no identification after losing his belongings, he could only sit in silence as suspicion grew.
A routine blood test to establish his identity uncovered an impossible truth.
The boy known as Oliver Dionisio Mendoza had actually disappeared fourteen years earlier.
His real name was Oliver Ernesto Santoro.
And somewhere in Italy, a family who had mourned their son for fourteen years had just learned he was alive.