PARTE 2: La carta que mi madre nunca quiso que leyera

would not turn.

Then something inside clicked.

The door opened.

The room was empty except for a narrow bed, a wooden desk, and a small metal cabinet beneath the window. Dust lay across every surface, but the room had not been abandoned entirely.

Someone had been here recently.

A clean envelope rested on the desk.

My name was written across it.

ANNA HALE

I stepped forward.

Daniel caught my arm—not tightly, only enough to stop me.

“Wait.”

“What?”

“There may be a reason it was left here.”

“By whom?”

“I