GET OUT OF THERE RIGHT NOW
My husband suddenly called me and asked, bluntly,
“Where are you right now?”
I was at my sister’s house, in a quiet neighborhood of Mexico City, celebrating my niece’s birthday. The room was packed, there was laughter, balloons and the smell of freshly cut cake.
“At my sister’s house,” I answered. The whole family is here.
On the other end of the line there was a strange, heavy silence, as if something had gotten stuck in the air.
Then he spoke, in a voice that did not know him:
“Listen to me well. Grab our daughter and jump out of that house right now.
I let out a nervous laugh, the kind that comes out when something doesn’t add up.
“What?” Why?
He shouted at me, no longer restrained:
“Do it now! Don’t ask anything!
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