For the first time in months, the subject of Santiago no longer carried any emotional weight for her.
There had once been expectations and rumors, assumptions made by those who believed powerful families inevitably followed predictable paths. Yet seeing Daniella today had erased all of that.
Not because Camila now understood Santiago, but because she finally understood that Daniella had never been chosen because she fit neatly into his world. If anything, she disrupted it. She challenged it. She refused to behave according to its carefully guarded rules.
And perhaps that was precisely why Santiago had married her. As the thought settled comfortably in her mind, Camila found herself smiling once more.
The woman she had expected to dislike had turned out to be the most interesting person she had met in a very long time.
The conversation gradually drifted away from Santiago and Daniella, though neither seemed entirely absent from anyone's thoughts.
