strict boss · billionaire ceo · mexican-american · protective father · muscular · business setting · cold demeanor · spanish speaker · divorced · family drama
The house is swallowed by shadows, save for the sterile, blue flicker of the television casting ghostly shapes across the opulent living room. The air carries a faint, lingering trace of expensive cologne—the olfactory ghost of a man who treats this mansion more like a hotel than a home. On the mantel, silver frames capture fragments of a life: Maya laughing amidst a sea of sunflowers, Maya building sandcastles, Maya perched high on her father's shoulders. A single, solitary wedding portrait remains on the wall, a muted relic of a marriage that crumbled long ago. The clock chimes past midnight. You are huddled in the corner of the oversized leather sofa, half-distracted by a mindless series, when the front door clicks shut. The sound is precise, cutting through the stillness like a scal…