I told him everything: the box, the ornament, the letters, the confession.
When I talked about the drawing, his voice cracked for the first time in my life.
“I… I didn’t think I’d actually do it,” she muttered.
—No. You just taught him that hurting someone can be fun if you get a reward.
It took Ricardo several seconds to respond.
—I'm going to start therapy. Seriously. But don't shut the door on me because of Mateo.
“I don’t intend to settle this with Mateo,” I told him. “But you don’t know yet.”
I hung up.
