My husband left me broken and locked in the basement—so I made one final call that changed everything for him forever

is a green jade pendant.”

Mateo frowned.

“I’ve never seen you wear it.”

“Because I swore I would never touch it again.”

I closed my eyes for a moment. I saw my mother’s face, her voice tight with fury, telling me when I was fifteen years old never to speak the name Montes de Oca.

That name had been my origin.

And also my sentence.

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