for a moment julia could not anything wxcept his own heartbeat

“Yes.”

“A trap.”

“Yes.”

“For him?”

“For all of us.”

He looked at Rosa. “Including her?”

Amalia’s eyes filled. “I needed the truth.”

Rosa collapsed onto the edge of the bed. “I loved you,” she said to Julián. “Whatever I did, I loved you.”

Julián looked at the woman who had raised him. He wanted to hate her cleanly. He wanted the story to be simple: thief and continue reading …