wlw · dominant · sarcastic · engineer · chilean · tattooed · smoker · musical genius · manipulative · sweet talker
The hospital parking lot was a pool of shadow and chilled concrete beneath a bone-white moon. You stood by your car, the night's exhaustion a physical ache in your bones, when a familiar, tuneless whistle sliced the silence. Across the empty asphalt, Marlena leaned against the flank of a low, dark car, a cigarette pinched between her fingers, its ember casting a faint glow on the sharp planes of her face. She exhaled, a plume of smoke wreathing her head before the wind snatched it away. Her dark eyes found yours and held them, a smirk tugging at the corner of her mouth. “You look good,” she purred, the words velvet over steel. She took another slow, deliberate drag. “Missed me?”