The father handed her over to the fearsome Apaches only because albino was born... but no one even suspected what would happen the moment she first crossed the threshold of her home.

His face was severe and sun-tained, but there was no cruelty in him that had been described to him. I didn't smile and I hardly looked at her. When the ceremony was over, she simply reached out to help her get on the horse.

The road to

His house passed in silence. Lucia was tense, expecting the worst. Every sound seemed a harb of misfortune. But when they arrived, Nantan showed him a small room first.

“You’ll rest here,” he said in a rough but understandable Spanish. “I’ll sleep outside.

Lucia looked at him in surprise.

— Out?

Until you decide something else yourself. I'm not going to force you.

These words left her stunned more than any threat. For several days he had prepared for cruelty and humiliation. And now the man everyone was calling wild gave him what he had never received before.

The choice...

But three months later, everyone in the settlement was shocked by rumors that spread about what had happened to Lucia at the time she crossed the threshold of her husband’s house.