THEY LOCKED YOU AWAY SO YOUR SISTER COULD MARRY TH…

for you.

You step back.

“No.”

“Elena—”

“You told me Doña Carmela was my mother.”

“She raised you.”

You laugh, but it breaks into something ugly.

“She hated me.”

He closes his eyes.

“Yes.”

Your chest feels like it is tearing open.

The grave seems to tilt under the moon.

“Who was Isabel?”

His voice is barely audible.

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