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Chapter 5 – Four Small Voices

Chapter 5 – Four Small Voices

After midnight, the mansion was finally quiet.

Alejandro sat with his daughters beside the Christmas tree.

The presents he had carried from Monterrey still waited unopened.

Valeria hesitated before speaking.

"Daddy..."

"Are you leaving again?"

He looked at each of them.

"No."

Jimena always told us you loved work more than us."

His eyes filled with tears.

"I was wrong."

"I believed providing money was enough."

"It wasn't."

"I should have been here."

The girls climbed into his arms together.

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For the first time in months...

They fell asleep without fear.

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