They would never meet.

And yet between them, without ever knowing it, they had passed her from one set of loving hands to another across thirty years and an ocean of loss, and Aracely resolved that she would honor them both equally for the rest of her life — the mother who never stopped looking, and the mother who found.

Chapter 18 — Three Weeks

The divorce took less than three weeks.

Aracely asked for no money; she did not need it, and she wanted nothing from Damson that would tie her to him for a single day longer than the law required.

She did not need revenge either, and this surprised the people around her, who kept expecting her to want one.