The widowed businessman’s daughters hadn’t gone out for three years… until the maid took them to the vineyard…

Laughter returned.

Small gifts appeared.

Hope flickered.

And that’s when the resistance began.

The governess, rigid and loyal to order, saw Elena as a threat. She reported her. Tried to separate her from the girls.

And the grandmother—Doña Regina—arrived.

Cold. Authoritative. Unyielding.

To her, Elena was dangerous. A servant forgetting her place.

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