I signed everything for my husband in the divorce — without him knowing the bombshell he had just agreed to…

“From day one,” I replied.

Carmen nodded slowly.

“You should be scared,” he said, but he was smiling.

Because?

Because you’re the type of person who loses everything with a smile while already having their next move calculated.

I stopped in front of my car, that modest car that I hadn’t ordered for delivery because I didn’t need it, and looked at the city sky which for the first time in a long time seemed completely clear.

“It’s not coldness,” I said. “It’s just that when someone underestimates you for fourteen years, there comes a point when you decide to use exactly that to your advantage.”

That afternoon I picked Valentina up from school. She asked me if we were going to be okay.

I told him yes.

And for the first time in two years, I said it without calculating anything.