Summary

Mallarino left Magdalena with a kiss on the lips that he thought might be their last. He stood on the sidewalk and looked for the sign for the business where Cuéllar’s widow worked. He saw Samanta waiting near the business. As he stood in the crowd of people waiting for the light to change, he thought about what he and Samanta were about to do. He wondered if Rodrigo was right, if his enemies would come down on him regardless of what they discovered during the interview. He knew that while Samanta could come away with a variety of different outcomes, there would only be one possibility for him. As he thought about that possibility, he realized that he understood the anger with which he would be attacked because he had felt that same anger when he attacked and humiliated...