That night, I could not sleep. Parang may nakabara sa lalamunan ko, heavy and suffocating. Isabel’s warning kept echoing in my mind, I know things that would make Elias hate you. What could she possibly mean? What secret was so terrible it could turn everything Elias believed to ash? I tossed and turned until the clock showed half-past two, then finally rose, pulled on a robe, and slipped out of my room.
I had to go back to the study. There were more files to find. More secrets to uncover. And if Isabel was hiding something… or Hector… or even Miguel… the answers were somewhere in Papa’s records.
The hallway was silent, only the faint glow of nightlights guiding my way. I unlocked the study door and slipped inside, shutting it softly behind me. The room felt different at night, larger, d
