At my son’s wedding, I stood frozen as my wife was shoved into the mud. Before I could react, my daughter-in-law laughed and said, “Don’t pretend this is about anything but stealing attention.”

will,” I said, a quiet certainty settling inside me. “Before it does, everything will change.”

We got into the car and drove toward Madrid, the city lights flickering in the distance.

We were heading toward a reckoning.

The only thing Clara hadn’t considered… was whether she was the one walking into it.

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