CHAPTER 218 — The Night They Refused to Face and the Dawn That Betrayed Them

Their arrival at the hotel was almost silent, marked by the kind of exhaustion that settles into your bones after a day that changes everything.

They didn’t say much.

Both were tangled in their own thoughts.

Milagros went into the bathroom first.

She stood under the hot water for several minutes, letting the tension run down her back like something her body had been holding in for too long. Then she put on her