ALEJANDRO
I couldn't sleep, I'd been sitting on the edge of my bed for the past forty minutes, still in my shirt from earlier, jacket thrown somewhere behind me, just staring at the floor like it owed me something.
The contract conversation kept coming back.
Not the legal parts or the clauses or any of that, just her voice when she asked that one question.
If I sign this, what happens to everything that already happened between us?
And what did I say?
We move forward. Going by the rules this time.
I exhaled.
Even I knew that was a bad answer.
I got up, not really knowing where I was going, just knowing that sitting in that room staring at nothing wasn't doing anything for me. I walked down the corridor without turning any lights on and stopped when I saw the thin line of light und
