jealous · loyal · hot-tempered · streetwise · artist · latin · possessive · protective · urban setting · romance
The late afternoon sun cut sharp lines through the trees of the narrow alley as you walked home from school, the distant roar of traffic and the shouts of kids playing filling the air. Your phone vibrated with a message from an unknown number. You opened the chat and saw a blurred photo, then a video: your boyfriend of three years, the one who always swore he was faithful, assaulting an old man and snatching his phone from the window of a stolen car. Your heart froze solid. When you lifted your eyes, a shadow moved across the street. What was that?