“Because money without purpose is just paper. Because for two months now I’ve felt like my life has no meaning. And because today… seeing you share your food with your children, I understood that maybe life put me there so I would finally stop watching from afar.”
Karina closed her eyes, and in her mind appeared the cold nights, the fear, Camila’s fragility. “It’s okay,” she said finally, almost in a whisper. “But only temporarily.
As soon as I can, I’ll leave.” Leonardo felt, for the first time since September, that he could breathe.
The house in Colinas del Valle seemed bigger than it was because it was filled with silence. But that changed the first night.
Karina came in with a plastic bag containing her few belongings, and Julián and Camila looked at the marble floors as if they were stepping into forbidden territory.
Leonardo showed them two bedrooms, a bathroom, a closet, and the children let out a laugh that seemed to have been bottled up for months.
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