CHAPTER 257 — The Silence of Those Who Love Too Deeply

(PART II)

(Adrián’s Point of View)

I thought I already knew fear.

I really did.

Because there are fears that teach you to move carefully for the rest of your life.

And we had learned that lesson far too early.

When Ayden was a baby, there were tests, checkups, sleepless nights. There were doctors who spoke carefully and glances that lingered a second too long, as if no one wanted to say out loud the very word you were already thinking.

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