The next morning arrived with an expectant silence, as if the house itself were holding its breath after the events of the previous night. Elena went downstairs for breakfast, phone in hand, prepared for the worst. She had imagined lurid headlines, blurry photos of her in a bathrobe with wild eyes, speculation about domestic violence.

However, when she opened the digital news on the tablet that Alejandro had left on the table, she found something very different.

The front page of the most infl