His mother called her unfaithful because she had two daughters…

I didn’t.”

“I know.”

“I can’t undo it.”

“No,” she said softly. “You can’t.”

He nodded, accepting the sentence he had spent years trying to outrun.

Then Valeria looked through the window at their children laughing in the kitchen.

“But you helped make sure it ended with us.”

Sebastián followed her gaze.

Inside, Sofía’s daughter toddled across the floor while continue reading …