Chapter 1

Chapter 1

While scrolling through Instagram, a photo caught my eye.

Looking past the row of glamorous people in the foreground, I noticed a young man lounging on the sofa behind them, casually absorbed in his phone.

His hand, propped against the sofa, partially obscured his face, but I could still make out his distinctive profile – the strong nose bridge and defined brow.

I hesitated, then opened my gallery to compare the photos I had of Alex. The resemblance was uncan

After some deliberation, I messaged Victoria Bennett, a college acquaintance I only interacted with through likes.

“Hi, could I ask who this person is?” I sent her the photo, noticing she’d deliberately blurred that particular section.

Her response came surprisingly quick.

“Why are you asking about him? Trust me, he’s not someone you should be curious about.”

“He just looks a bit like

I knew every detail of Alex’s face – I could even sketch the exact curve of his frown

came

husband can barely get a word in with him. How could your boyfriend, making what – three grand a month? – have any connection to someone like that?”

to your senses? Planning to dump that boyfriend of yours who has nothing going

for him?”

a cute thank–you

always been competitive. Ever since freshman year when my makeup–free photo beat hers in the unofficial campus beauty rankings, she’d

she married the heir to a Fortune 500 company, while I devoted myself to my relationship with Alex, a

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superior world.

Alex’s chat, I asked,

contact, saved as

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