Leo didn't say a word.
The silence stretched on between them.
They both shivered in the cold wind as it grew darker, only moving once they reached the bridge and climbed into the car.
*****
Three days later, the cruise ship docked back at the port where it had set off.
Claudia couldn't wait to disembark and immediately started asking around for news of Lilian.
She had thought she'd need to search abroad, but to her surprise, Lilian was right there, in a local hospital.
Claudia rushed to the hospital, and it didn't take long before she found Lilian, now completely unhinged, in the psychiatric ward.
At the moment, Lilian still had a flicker of clarity. When she saw Claudia, she exploded in a fit of rage, hurling insults.
But she was strapped to the bed.
A nurse, used to these kinds
