By Monday, CEU was a battlefield of whispers.Not a hallway passed without someone’s voice dipping into gossip, or a phone angled just slightly too long in her direction.
Jessica didn’t need to check the student pages to know what they were saying, it was already written in the stares.
“That’s her.”“The girl from the Sportsfest.”
“The one having an affair with Alexander Almeda.”
Even the way they said his name carried weight a mix of fascination and disgust.
Alexander Almeda, San Beda’s Red Lion’s former captain who helped them win NCAA’s championship in 2018. A law student on track to graduate and to finally join his family business. Heir to the Almeda Food Group. The family empire that fed the nation and quietly ruled it. Restaurants in every mall, meat-processing plants in every pro
