Celina ran a trembling hand over her face, her chest tightening under the weight of her own pain.

“And the worst part… is that I blamed myself,” she whispered. “I punished myself every single day. I told myself I deserved everything that happened. Because I gave myself to César before marriage—because I disobeyed everything my parents taught me. My mother always said sex was only meant to happen after the wedding. And because… I married a man they never would’ve approved of. I betrayed their va