You're always hovering around Alexis, but does she even care about you?"

Leonel's expression soured.

Calvin continued to needle him.

"I bring her medicine. She always gets headaches after drinking. She lets me stay the night, but how about you? You don't even have the privilege to be in her house, yet you act like you own the place."

With a trace of bitterness in his voice, Calvin added, "She'll never marry. Give it up!"

Surprisingly, Leonel remained uncharacteristically silent, not offering a retort.

Leonel sat battered and disheveled in the car.

He was trying to wrap his head around Calvin's words when he said, “Alexis won't marry!"

Leonel covered his face with his hands, lost in thought. Then Calvin continued, "You think it's just a fling between her and me? Leonel, I've known her for four years! When I was twenty, my dad committed suicide due to gambling debts, taking my mom with him. It was Alexis who paid off all the debts for me, using her connections to get me into the entertainment industry."

He was twenty years old, and there was suicide in the mix of his story.

As Calvin recounted his past, Leonel listened in a daze.

He was struck by the eerie similarity of Calvin's story to his own.

So, Alexis had taken Calvin under her wing after Leonel left her.

Was it because Calvin reminded her of him? Did Calvin replace him in her heart already after all these years? Leonel had no idea.

He looked up, his eyes misty. Calvin's words hit home.

Calvin vowed softly, "For her, I'd give up everything!"

Unexpectedly, Leonel nodded in agreement, saying, "I kno\

Leonel gazed at Calvin's pale, youthful face. He noticed how it looked so much like his own when he was his age. Then, the realization hit him that Calvin had become a replacement for him in Alexis' life over the years.

A heavy feeling settled in Leonel's heart as if it were sinking in water.

At the police station, the officer asked them why they had caused trouble.