Until She Learns

~RAFAEL~

We find the car twelve minutes later.

Abandoned in an alley behind the Iglesia de Santa María. The engine was still warm. Driver's door hanging open.

The wedding dress is shredded in the passenger seat.....torn to pieces like she was shedding a skin.

"She was here," Cruz says, shining a flashlight into the interior. "Recently. The seat is still warm."

I step into the alley. It's narrow, d