CHARLOTTE
I spent most of the night awake, thinking about the best way to talk to Thiago about visiting the estate. That wasn’t the only question I had on my mind, but it was one of the most pressing ones. A few hours before dawn, I started to fall asleep, but it was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell.
When it rang the first time, I thought I was hearing things, and my mind was playing tricks on me. By the second ring, I was convinced it was coming from inside the apartment and got out of bed. I made my way to the front door and opened it to meet Sonia, who was staring at me curiously.
“You look like you saw a ghost,” she said as I stepped aside to let her in.
“It feels like I heard one, and that’s relatively worse,” I answered and shut the door.
“You haven’t slept a wink, have
