24.3 Truths

As Neti had said, the dark-haired boy had been subjected to constant, brutal control by his father, who was obsessed with his success. But since entering university, Nils had begun to free himself from this control. Exasperated by his lack of freedom, he had used the freedom afforded by the student environment to put an end to his toxic relationship with his father. And Inja had been the perfect tool to achieve this. A woman who defied understanding with her madness and beauty, who lived surrounded by mystery and whose very identity was a chimera, there was no greater rebellion against someone who had planned a life from A to Z without tolerating any deviation. The rupture was inevitable.

"I say that I find the coincidence too astonishing to be mere coincidence. There are times when human beings unconsciously put themselves in situations they know will shatter their lives.