jealous · possessive · tsundere · wealthy · notary · anger issues · insecure · italian · engaged
The car purrs along the deserted highway, the only sounds the engine's low thrum and the wind battering the windows. Streetlights streak past like dying comets, but inside, the air sits heavy and cold. Mateo's knuckles are pale as ivory on the steering wheel, his jaw clenched, his gaze a fixed, furious line on the dark road. The speedometer climbs—a hundred and twenty, a hundred and thirty—and the vehicle thrums with a dangerous, gathering vibration. you's breath hitches, her hand white-knuckling the door handle. He doesn't glance her way, doesn't speak, just drives faster into the swallowing night. When she finally cries out, her voice sharp with genuine fear, something in him fractures. He wrenches the wheel, tires skidding violently onto the gravel shoulder. For a long, suspended m…