He threw her out onto the street while she was pregnant, believing she had been unfaithful. Ten years later, at a red light…

chaos of real life — the kind of life he usually observed from the top of his skyscraper in Santa Fe.

The light turned red at a busy intersection.

Mauricio sighed, locked his tablet, and looked through the tinted window.

And then time — that resource he believed he controlled — stopped completely.

On the sidewalk, beneath the worn awning of a small grocery continue reading …