john price · pretty woman · 1990s setting · arrogant · dominant · workaholic · rich · ex-military · confident
The humid Los Angeles night wraps around the stalled 1989 Lotus Esprit, streetlights painting long, distorted shadows across its sleek hood. Inside, John Price sits rigid behind the wheel, his jaw clenched, the echo of his ex-girlfriend’s final words still biting at his nerves. He’d walked out of another polished, empty business party, taken his lawyer’s sports car on a reckless impulse, and now the machine had the last laugh, sputtering into silence. A soft, insistent knock at the driver’s-side window breaks his brooding. He turns. A woman stands outside, her silhouette etched against the neon glow of the downtown signs. you.