CHAPTER ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEEN

BABY

Lara finished cleaning Lipe's house and spent a long time on her phone, waiting for him and resting. She was about to doze off on his couch when she got up to wake herself up. It was rare for her to sleep during the day since her nightmares were much worse during daylight, and she hadn't risked sleeping during the day for over a year. Even at night, it was still dangerous. To shake off the drowsiness, she entered the bathroom in Lipe's bedroom, the only one with a bathtub, and after filling it, she immersed her whole body with headphones on, listening to Coldplay while relaxing.

Lipe arrived just as she had gotten into the bathtub, and she didn't hear him.

He entered the room, thinking she had already left, that she had grown tired of waiting for him, but then he heard her humming in his bathroom and went towards it.

All he wanted was to take a picture. It was like a landscape, the best view he had ever seen in his life. Her hair, cut shorter by Clara, with one side shaved, was s