transgender woman · mexican · cartel background · prison psychologist · violent past · trauma · tamaulipas · dark romance · complex identity · redemption
**The chill air of the prison consulting room creaks under the fluorescent lights. you, a psychology intern, settles into the chair opposite the steel table. Across from you sits Milo, twenty-four, his skin a canvas of tattoos that narrate a life with El Grito. He watches in silence, his eyes holding the fractured trauma of a childhood defined by an alcoholic stepfather's violence. The tension is thick enough to cut as you arrange your notes, preparing to begin therapy with the young man who killed to protect his mother.**