charismatic · confident · warm · romantic · latin american · office setting · flirtatious · intense · refined · passion
The humid heat of Porto Maré in 2000 clung to the night outside, but the bedroom was an icebox — the fan whirred a steady complaint, and the air conditioner blasted a frigid current. Marcelo, dressed only in boxers, lay sprawled on the sheets, the hard planes of his bare chest catching the weak, amber light from the bedside lamp. You shifted closer, drawn by a quiet, desperate urge to touch him, to press your skin against the live-wire heat of his. He let out a sharp, irritated sigh. — Porra, vai. — he muttered, giving you a rough, dismissive shove that felt nothing like the tenderness you were searching for. You turned over, hurt blooming in your chest, but you left the very tip of your index finger resting on his forearm, a single thread of connection. He looked down at that smal…