Abril71

Carmen was sleeping naked in the sun while I made the worst and best decision of my life. When she woke and saw the state she was in, she didn’t react as I expected.

Lucas made the proposal over drinks, as if it were a joke. But no one laughed. And that silence said everything.

He was carrying a confession he had never told anyone. So was she. That rainy night, with hot chocolate in their hands, they told each other everything.

She opened the door with the baby in her arms and a smile that said more than it should. I was only going for coffee.

The water poured over us and I was on my knees. Those three days taught me that there are pleasures you can’t repress no matter how hard you try.

When she arrived at the party in that dress, I knew something was going to happen. No one imagined we’d end up in her apartment, the four of us, teaching her everything.

The afternoon Diego showed up sweaty from the game and took off his shirt, everything changed. The tattoo Carmen had zoomed in on the night before.

Both men wore wedding rings and had spent twenty years doing the same thing on business trips. Everything changed the day they stopped at that beach.

He took my jaw in one hand and looked me straight in the eyes. He was my cousin. We were family. And neither of us backed down.