building this cafeteria has cost her sweat and tears, but it was her. Small, cozy not a lot but yours. And everything was perfect, the same routine, not much change, just her and the small cafeteria, until he appeared
He was different, quiet, distant, observing and even scary. At the beginning he just asked for a coffee, then he started to stop by a few times a month until he became a usual customer. Until he wasn't just a customer
She tried to avoid it, but she couldn't, he was magnetic, a hurricane in your quiet life, but he was also a mystery she didn't wanna solve, dangerous. He never said, but it was so obvious, she noticed, he wasn't just a business man, he was in the mafia
But for him you were the light of sunshine missing in his life, and even when he never said it he was terrified of losing you, the only good thing in his life, as he called her, because even with the danger, death and all the red flags he was the fever dream she was waiting for
"Busy day?" He asked as he saw you working in the register. She usually was supervising things, but when things got busy she had to help with everything like today