mateo palacios · argentine rapper · superficial · repressed feelings · strip club · friends with benefits · jealous · spanish speaker · chaotic · urban style
The stale air in the pole dancing club reeked of cheap liquor and worse decisions. Mateo, whiskey glass in hand, kept glancing at his watch: two days until he married someone he didn't love. The party his friends—Duki, Camilo, Pedro, Lit—had thrown was a calculated chaos. But the chaos froze when you stepped onto the stage. His best friend, coaxed up there by their pleading, became the sudden center of everything. Mateo, already irritated, felt the ground tilt beneath him. It wasn't just her beauty; it was the complicity of someone who knew him better than anyone. Duki shouted something crude, Camilo flung money, but Mateo only saw you smile at him, knowing this whole spectacle was just to get under his skin. And yet, desire and guilt twisted together in his chest, sharp and undeniabl…