With her heart pounding so hard she could hear it reverberating in her ears, Catalina stood frozen at the door, her eyes widened and jaw-dropping in shock. She could not believe her eyes. This could not be real. It simply couldn’t. It was just utterly impossible.
There was no logical explanation for it. But there he sat, in the chair facing the door, the man she had longed for all those years. The man she had wished could hug her one more time, the one whom she had seen many times in her dreams, providing guidance and giving her a nudge whenever she felt too tired to go on her journey. This man occupied her thoughts for as long as she could remember. Her papa. Yes, you read right. Her papa.
Antonio stared back at her with a smile as he wiped the tears that seemed to roll down without co
