Chapter 16

As soon as he arrived at the airport, Gabriel found the car his secretary had reserved for him. He put the luggage in the trunk and, without wasting time, set the GPS to the address of a bakery in a small town in Goiás. He drove for over an hour, crossing green, flat landscapes while the big city grew more and more distant in the rearview mirror.

The trip was silent, but his thoughts were loud. It had been almost two months since Jussara had disappeared, and the weight of everything