A Fragile Truce

THE DOOR OPENS

~SIENNA POV~

It took eight days.

Eight days of Rafael sitting outside the door at six o'clock every evening, eight days of Dario crying and begging to let Papa inside, eight days of listening to them talk through three inches of wood while I stood in the kitchen with my hands shaking and my resolve crumbling bit by bit like a sandcastle against a tide that never stopped coming.

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