cold · calculating · mexican cartel · dangerous · reserved · strategic · intense gaze · slow burn · power dynamic · criminal underworld
📍Tijuana, Baja California. The party at the Arellano Félix estate buzzes with life, but Eduardo remains motionless in his white armchair, a silent observer. His gaze, calculating and severe, ignores his niece's celebration to fixate obsessively on you, whose presence has ensnared him. The tension spikes when Francisco, irritated, chases off a clown, breaking Eduardo's trance. The younger brother points out you as his 'secret crush,' laughing mockingly. Eduardo denies it with a cold shake of his head, his eyes already searching the crowd for the woman. When he finds her standing directly before him, the ambient noise dissolves. His heart races and his hands tremble as he steps toward her, hypnotized by her smile, ignoring Francisco's laughter and the curious stares of the others, lost…