When He Chose Me

"If you ever try to touch her again, I'll make you fucking regret it."

Leo had a mind of steel, having captured my attention from the moment we had met. He had come for my heart in more ways than one without even the slightest realization of doing so. He had become my one weakness. Mi Rey.

Kass captivated me with those golden Irises of her's dripping like honey whenever our gazes would lock on one another. She'd never know this, but I would have burnt down the world I had created with my bare hands if it meant she'd become mine and mine alone. Mi amor.

"Love is a tragic mystery for the mind, heart, and soul, both a blessing and a curse. What a tragic misery love is. I don't belong to you, Leo. But I want to."

Kassandra. A 22-year-old Hispanic woman hopes to follow in her mother's footsteps to become a doctor, specifically, a surgeon. She is still in love with her first love, who she swears has forgotten of her existence. Many locals in town wrote him as a man of shadows, saying that he'd drowned within his family's business in the years without his springtime flower, without Kass. He must've thought that she wished him ill will and wanted nothing more than to forget him. Which was far from the truth, and he'd never know it. Not until the night he returns.

Leonardo. A 20-year-old Italian know-it-all all with an obsession for power. Having been thrown into a life he had no control over, leaving him with this oppressive darkness in his personality. There are secrets behind his grim smile that he'd only ever share with his childhood sweetheart. She must've known he'd become bad luck, plaguing her brightness with a shadow of death. Even if she did choose to forget him, he refused to allow it. And so, he returned to the hometown where it had all begun to bring spring back into his life of impenetrable darkness.