A deaf farmer marries an obese girl for a bet; what she pulled out of her husband’s ear left everyone stunned." The morning that Clara Valdés became a wife, the snow fell on the Sierra de Chihuahua with sad patience, as if the sky itself knew that it was not a holiday, but of resignation".

fury drowning her.

“Then I was worth a debt to my father… and a gamble for my brother.

Elijah looked up.

“Not for me.

She looked at him in silence.

Then why did you accept?

He took so long to answer that Clara thought she wouldn’t.

Because I was tired of being alone. And because I thought a woman forced to come with me wouldn’t expect much from me.

Those words went through it.