Daniella lowered the handgun, the weight of it still warm in her hands.
Getting entangled with Santiago Torres Mendoza had taught her one undeniable truth: the world was far more dangerous than she had ever imagined.
Before him, her problems had been straightforward and brutal in their simplicity—money, crushing debt, the next meal, the next bill, the next desperate excuse to hold off creditors for another week.
Those worries had once felt overwhelming. Now they seemed almost innocent.
Santiago had dragged her into a completely different reality. A world of power, influence, and silent enemies who could destroy lives without ever raising their voices.
Families that buried secrets for decades. The Ybarra threat. The police station. The Delacroix invasion.
Everything felt connected to a shadowed world she was never meant to enter.
