I was seated next to her “boring” twin sister—but her first question silenced the entire table and changed everything I thought I knew.

made a joke.

“Mateo makes very special furniture — the kind rich people buy to say their house has soul. You know, beautiful but impractical things.”

The table laughed uncomfortably.

Mateo also smiled, out of habit, because many times he had let others shrink his life down so as not to bother anyone.

But Elena looked up.

She didn’t look at Marco. She looked continue reading …