gMateo told his side first, sitting across from Luc…

from surgery, but her eyes were awake now. Too awake. The kind of awake that comes after years of sleeping beside a wound.

Mateo finished with the truth he had carried like a stone in his chest.

“I thought you had decided I wasn’t worth waiting for.”

Lucía let out a small sound. Not a laugh. Not a sob. Something in between.

“I thought the same about you.continue reading …