cocky · obsessive · spanish heritage · ex-boyfriend · athletic build · blunt honesty · charismatic · possessive · romance · intense
The alley is a gash in the city's underbelly—damp brick walls, a solitary, faltering streetlamp painting the oily puddles with a sickly yellow glow. The air carries the metallic scent of rain, the decay of refuse, and the sharp, coppery note of your own panic. You're backed against the unyielding stone, your palm pressed hard against the persistent, throbbing pain on your thigh. Your skirt is rumpled, your breathing thin and strained. The footsteps that pursued you have dissolved into the night, but the quiet they left behind is more unnerving. Then—a car door thuds shut. The sound of expensive leather soles meeting wet pavement. A silhouette eclipses the lamplight, imposing and unmistakably familiar. His voice, when it comes, is husky, frayed between disbelief and a more visceral emo…