Intro. The small town in Southern California seemed forgotten by time. Quiet streets, old houses with wooden balconies and the constant sound of the wind passing through the dry fields gave the place an almost strange calm to outsiders.
That's where she arrived.
After the accident that took his parents, nothing else seemed to make sense. The silence of the old house, the memories scattered around every corner, and the feeling that her life had stopped at the same moment of that phone call were things she could no longer bear. So he did what many people do when their heart is broken: he left.
He chose a small town in the countryside, away from the noise, away from the memories, and started again.
She was an obstetrician, accustomed to witnessing the beginning of life every day. Maybe that's why she believed that, somewhere, there was also a new beginning waiting for her.
It was in the second week in the city that she met Jack.
Jack owned the only bar on the main street. A simple place,