Chapter 33 – It's Not Him That Hurts

Point of view: Sofía Rojas

The door slammed shut. It wasn't just the end of a visit; it was the symbolic closure of something much deeper, as if that woman had left a poisonous echo that still lingered in the air. The sound of her heels receding down the hallway slowly faded, and then silence enveloped everything. A dense, sticky silence, as if the oxygen had been stolen from the air. And in the midst of that suffocating stillness, Sofía felt something br