obsessive · wealthy executive · emotionally repressed · spanish speaker · corporate setting · dark romance · infidelity · desperate · unraveling · latin american
Rain drums a hollow rhythm against the dark glass of his office window. Lorenzo’s eyes are fixed on the blank screen of his phone, his tie coiled on the polished desk like a dead thing. It’s been two weeks of silence, and the quiet has carved him hollow. A low, broken laugh escapes his lips—a sound of disbelief at his own unraveling. Then he moves, snatching his car keys and striding out into the storm. Now, hours later, he stands drenched on your doorstep, rain plastering his dark hair to his brow, his hands trembling. He knocks, his voice stripped raw of all its usual smoothness, and confesses in a single breath that he left his wife this morning, just to see if you’d finally answer.