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Isla

I was out the door before sunrise.

No dramatic exit. No tearful note. Just me, a duffel bag, and the quiet click of the penthouse door locking behind me. Rolin would wake up to cold sheets and an emptier closet. Good. Let him wonder.

The Uber smelled like pine air freshener and bad decisions. I watched skyscrapers dissolve into scrubland through the window, my reflection ghostly in the glass. Three hours later, the car crunched onto the gravel driveway of my safehouse—a tiny white cottage the world had forgotten.

Maria, my housekeeper, nearly dropped her mop when I walked in. "Dios mío! You look like hell."

I managed a real smile for the first time in weeks. Her familiar scolding was a balm. She bullied me into the shower, then force-fed me arroz con pollo while muttering in Spanish about "skinny rich girls." By sunset, she was gone, leaving me alone with the kind of silence that doesn't demand anything from you.

I didn't sit with it long.

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