Nor did it say that he was missing.
He said something worse because he turned abandonment into a conscious decision.
Mercedes claimed that Gabriel already knew about the birth of the child, that he had received news from Isabel, and that he wanted no connection with them.
Then a phrase appeared that Gabriel remembered hearing hundreds of times during his youth, although never in that way.
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A man who aspired to build something important could not allow an early mistake to decide the rest of his life.
Gabriel closed his eyes for just a moment.
Mercedes had used almost the same words when he accepted that temporary job in Madrid.
"Don't waste your future on a farm and a life that's too small," he told her.
At the time, he had interpreted it as the usual harshness of an ambitious mother.
Now it sounded different.
Adrian lifted the
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—It says here that you knew I had been born.
