Catherine watched Clarisse walk away, carrying the child, feeling a mix of shock, anger, and fear. The fact that Clarisse was still alive was already enough to make her despair. On top of that, she had to hear Clarisse say she had caught her with another man.
Catherine stood there for a long time, struggling to calm her emotions.
Clarisse carried Josie to the parking lot and, after getting into Wooden Drucker's car, leaned back wearily against the back seat. Jonathan had come, Catherine had returned, and now Juárez had arrived. She had grown accustomed to such calm and untroubled days. Couldn't they spare her and stop disrupting her life?
The car moved smoothly along the expressway from the airport back to the city. Perhaps sensing her helplessness, Josie, who had been quietly nestled in her arms, stood up on her shoulder and looked at her with bright, shining eyes, calling her softly,
"Mommy…"
