Ricardo stood in the doorway.
He hadn’t seen his daughters like that since before Claris died.
Then Mariana looked up.
“Dad.”
“Yes?”
“Can Luía stay forever?”
Ricardo looked at Luía.
She looked uncomfortable.
He smiled.
“We’ll see.”
But that night, a letter arrived at the mansion.
It was from Luía’s university.
Her tuition was overdue.
She had been given one final deadline.
If she couldn’t pay, she would lose her place in the child psychology program.
And she had no idea that Ricardo had found the letter.
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Ricardo read the letter twice.
Then he waited for Luía to come home from the market.
When she entered the kitchen, she found him sitting at the table.
Her face immediately changed.
“What’s wrong?”
He placed the letter on the table.
She stared at it.
“You opened my mail?”
“It was in the kitchen.”
She picked it up.
