RUINED BY MY BROTHER'S MAFIA BESTFRIEND
The room is dark, but the stage before us is lit, and I imagine Rosalia looking down and seeing me like this.
It would turn her into the soprano Isabella thinks she should be.
I close my eyes and feel where his hand is going. My lungs are going to burst, and then my heart, and then that white-hot heat already drumming in my belly.
Before he can reach between my thighs, I snatch him by the wrist and hold him there. My hand barely wraps around his wrist, but he doesn't move. For a long time, he stays still. Amid the movements of the opera, it feels like we're suspended in this one moment. He speaks those low, soft translations in my ear—confessions of love, jealousy, and plots of murder. His t