HIS HUSBAND’S FAMILY LEFT HER BLEEDING IN THE ER, BUT THEY DIDN’T KNOW HER MOTHER WAS THE COLONEL WHO WAS ABOUT TO DESTROY THEIR EMPIRE

what unsettled mariana the most was one sentence.

sofia said it almost unintentionally, staring at the floor.

—one night i heard rebeca say that i had to stay married for at least one more year. mariana frowned.

—why one year?

sofía swallowed hard.

—because if i left earlier, “the whole plan would fall apart.”

mariana didn’t ask anything else.

she knew how continue reading …