After ending the call with her sister, Eloá can no longer hold back her tears.

More than anything, she wants to be part of that happiness, to be there with them, to hold her newborn brothers in her arms...

But the image of her parents’ disapproving faces—especially her father’s—appears so vividly in her mind that she swallows hard.

“I can’t go back... he would never forgive me for this,” she murmurs, as if saying it quietly might somehow make the truth hurt less.

Determined to push away the tho