It happened on Thursday and it was not planned.
The Andrada rehearsal dinner brief required a final vendor check at the venue and Diego and I went together at three in the afternoon with the checklist and the updated floor plan and the specific focused energy of two people who were eight days out from the largest event Estrella Co. had done this quarter and were not interested in surprises.
Rafael was there.
Not because he had been invited. Not because he had any professional connection to the venue or the event. He was there because the hotel where the rehearsal dinner was being held was the same hotel where he was staying and he had, apparently, been using the lobby cafe for his morning calls and had been doing so for long enough that the staff recognized him.
I saw him first.
He wa
