Alvin really hadn't expected Beckford, that playboy, to fall in love with a disabled girl.
Even more surprising, Gonzales's sister was actually quite pretty.
When Gonzales had told him that his sister had tried to give up coca farming and take her family with her, only to have drug dealers from the gang cut off both her legs, Alvin had truly admired her courage.
But Gonzales had turned out like that, so Alvin had imagined his sister would be the sort of woman who... well, how could he put it?
After giving the girl named Alina a hug, Alvin looked at Beckford, grinning like an idiot, and decided the guy was a lost cause.
The truth was, Alvin had come to get some advice. Beckford was the only real playboy in all of Hell's Kitchen.
Alvin had spent so long accompanying Hela while she tried on wedding dresses that he'd wound up in an ABC reality-show outtake. The past few days had felt like one long ordeal.
He'd seized the chance to get away when the Xenomorph problem came up, and figured he might as well find someone who could offer him a little advice.
Beckford was his target for consultation, but now that he'd seen him, the guy was a lost cause too!
Alina was pretty, but the gap between her and the supermodels Beckford had spent time with was obvious and enormous.
If inner beauty could make up for flaws in appearance, then in Beckford's eyes, Alina's inner beauty was at least on a stellar level.
It was hard for a playboy to fall in love, because he understood women and wasn't easily moved.
But when one did get through to him, it meant she'd touched the softest place in his heart.
Watching Beckford—reduced to a brainless wreck—get