Matías built it.

Soledad was trapped in it, the same way I was — he was in her walls too, all those years, closer than he ever was to me.

She should answer for what she did.

But she should answer as someone who was also his victim, because that’s the truth of it, and I won’t have the truth bent even to punish her.” Inmaculada looked at the young woman she had once thought of as fragile, and understood that she was not fragile at all.

“There is a thing I keep coming back to,” Amparo went on, slowly, working it out as she spoke.