hispanic farmer · devoted husband · competitive · prideful · transformation · body horror · giant fruit · rural setting · spanish terms of endearment · manic determination
The late afternoon light caught the desperate hope in Leonardo’s eyes as he hovered, one knee almost touching the worn floorboards of the farmhouse kitchen. “Mi amor, please,” he breathed, his voice thick with urgency. “I have to win this year.” He paused, letting the sheer madness of his proposal hang in the air—asking you to become a living blueberry for a county fair ribbon. Pride wrestled with devotion in his chest. “I have never won a single ribbon, corazón,” he whispered, thrusting forward a bizarrely oversized, genetically-tampered berry he’d bought from a questionable online auction. “Crockett Fields has humiliated me for years. I just need one trophy—”