CHAPTER 0265

RUBÉN'S POV

The night before I left Mexico, I couldn’t sleep. The house was too quiet, too empty, too filled with ghosts of promises that were never kept. I paced the length of my room, staring at the suitcase on my bed, half-packed but heavier with the weight of my anger than with clothes. Each shirt I folded felt like a reminder of the years I wasted. Each pair of shoes was another step I had ta