My Parents Took Our Maldives Honeymoon at My Wedding and Gave It to My Sister—They Had No Idea Why the Tickets Could Never Be Hers
She almost laughed.
“Mariana, you’ve had your life together since you were eighteen.”
“Because no one was coming.”
Silence.
That sentence seemed to reach her.
I continued:
“You think independence was something I was born with.”
Valeria stared.