“You figured wrong.”
Ricardo stepped closer, his jaw tight.
“Look, there are fifteen people here who drove for hours from Puebla and Mexico City. You’re just one person. Do the math. Go back to Veracruz and come next weekend.”
I stared at him, at the sheer arrogance in his voice.
His relatives were watching now.
Some looked uncomfortable.
Others smirked, as if the whole scene were amusing.
Ricardo’s mother even shook her head at me like I was the unreasonable one.
Something inside me shifted in that moment.
All my life I had been the one who compromised.
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