Chapter 383

Valeria’s POV

I was about to board the bus home when someone called my name.

“Mina!”

I turned sharply, my hand still gripping the metal rail of the bus door. The late afternoon heat wrapped around me like a heavy blanket, the smell of fuel and dust thick in the air.

Behind me, weaving through the small crowd of workers and shoppers, was the manager. She looked like someone who had been running, he