Chapter 10 - One Year After the Shed, Camila Returned Home and Told Me the One Thing I Had Been Afraid to Hear—She Wanted Me to Stop Protecting Her Like She Was Still a ChildCamila was twenty-two.

She came home.
We sat on the terrace.
“Dad.”
“Yes?”
“You still have men following me.”
I smiled.
“Maybe.”
“I know.”
She laughed.
“You're impossible.”
“I worry.”
“I know.”
“But you don't need to.”
I looked at her.
She continued:
“I survived.”
“You did.”
“I want you to live too.”
That sentence hit me.
I had spent years protecting her.
Maybe it was time to protect her by letting go.
I agreed.
My security team was reduced.
My old world disappeared further.
I became simply her father.
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That was harder than being a crime boss.
But much better.
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