A new job away from the family.

He would cut them all off.

Rafaela laid her phone on the table between them, the call log from that day still open.

“For thirty-three minutes while I walked in the rain, you didn’t call me once.

The second your family lost a contract, you called twenty-six times.

That was the moment I understood exactly what I was to you.” He wept and said he had loved her.