CHAPTER 12 – The Deception of a Proud Man

Narrated by Adrián

The house was silent.

The clock read 11:43 p.m. My mother was gone. She had set out to see Sofía, driven by a determination I had lost years ago. I stayed behind in the dining room, alone, my head buried in my hands. My mother’s tea was still steaming on the table. Linden and lemon—an aroma that flung me back to the nights of my childhood when I had a fever and she would sit beside my bed, watching over me as if I were the most precio