But something didn’t sit right with the officers.
The main gas valve was wide open—far more than it should have been. And inside the bedroom, the ventilation duct had been deliberately blocked with a towel, wedged tightly from the inside.
Morales looked at his partner, his expression dark.
— This wasn’t an accident.
The ambulance drove off with the parents still unconscious. Sofia was temporarily taken into the custody of the officers, sitting in the back seat of the patrol car, as the sky began to clear slightly.
At that hour, no one imagined that what happened inside that house was not only the product of negligence or carelessness… but the first thread of a much more complex story, one that would involve debts, threats and a chain of desperate decisions that had led to that silent night.
And although little Sofia couldn’t know it, the truth that was about to come to light would change her life forever.
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