“I’ve already sold the land. You have three days to leave.” Dona Conceição pressed the cell phone to her ear. Her lifeless eyes hadn’t cried in years, but her hands were trembling.

Conceição smiled softly.

“I waited months for a phone call that never came.”

“I don’t want to wait anymore.”

For the first time in years, she felt free.

The wind moved through the tree in the yard.

The house was old.

But it was hers.

And far away in São Paulo, Maurício drove alone.

Everything he had built on lies had collapsed.

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