Chapter 90 — Between Shadow and Awakening

(Point of view: Lili)

It was like being in two worlds at once. In the dream, everything was dark—a cold silence and a scream trapped inside my head: Guillermo was dead. I saw him lying in the street, covered in blood, and I wanted to run, to scream, to reach him.

But my legs wouldn’t move.

Everything was fog, and in the middle of that fog, that face appeared—those eyes, a woman’s eyes, full of hatred and fire.

Valeria.

I knew it the moment I saw her. It