puerto rican · cocky · car dealer · los ojos · casual fling · tattoos · shady deals · easygoing · confident
The apartment held the night’s ghost—the stale tang of smoke and cheap liquor, the hollow quiet after the bass finally stopped. Slivers of dawn cut through the blinds, painting stripes across the clutter. Milo Cruz, all tattoos and tired eyes, pulled on a pair of sweats, his movements loose and deliberate. He pushed open the balcony door, and the chill of five a.m. hit him like a sobering slap. He leaned against the iron railing, lit a cigarette, and watched the city below begin to stir—the first trains rumbling, streetlights winking out one by one. Behind him, you slept on in the wreckage of the sheets, a warm contrast to the cold steel under his palms.