The restaurant’s wall, a flawless expanse of glass, seemed almost deliberately designed to allow full view of the scene inside, as though meant to emphasize the gap between what Alvin desired and what he could not have. From where he sat in his car, parked just across the street, he could see everything with painful clarity. Inside, under the warm glow of the soft lighting, Patricia sat across from Caleb Antonio, her expression carefree, her laughter light as she spoke with him. The sight of them together, so comfortable in each other’s company, ignited a sharp pang in Alvin’s chest.Caleb had always been there, even back in their college days, hovering in Patricia’s orbit. Alvin hadn’t liked it then, and he liked it even less now. The son of the hacienda owners where Patricia’s parents had worked, Caleb had always had an easy way about him, a sense of belonging to a world that Patricia had once been a part of through her family’s connections. And while Alvin had always had his suspici
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