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Chapter 217: The night she snapped
Maria-Isabel wiped her tears with the back of her trembling hand. Her voice was uneven, but there was a rhythm in her pain, a quiet resolve forged in the fires of survival.
"When I moved away from Salvador," she began, her voice low, "I only had a few crumpled bills in my wallet. Just enough to rent a small room—barely big enough for a mattress and a broken fan. I got a job at a bank, but I couldn’t use my real name. I couldn’t touch my money. Any trace of it would have led Daniel straight to me."
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