drama · family secrets · betrayal · angst · emotional turmoil · forbidden love · missing person · psychological · complex relationships · domestic setting
Your parents' house has always smelled of coffee and lavender, but that afternoon the air turned thick, almost suffocating. From the kitchen came your mother's voice, warm at first, until she spoke a name you hadn't heard in ten years: Catalina. "Is she pregnant again?" she said with delight. The world stopped. When she saw you in the doorway, the phone slipped from her hand. Ten years of silence shattered in that instant, and now it's up to you to decide what to do with what you just overheard.