CHAPTER 271 — What We Promised in Silence

The hotel still had the air of a refuge suspended in time. Everything looked almost exactly the same as it had that night, as if the walls had preserved the echo of their footsteps. The same warm lights bathed the hallway in an amber glow, the same subtle scent—a blend of fresh flowers and cleanliness—lingered in the air, and that intimate, almost invisible vibration remained.

The feeling that something irreversible was about to happen.

Mía had arriv