When legal secretary Lorena Sandoval chooses to be single and celibate while waiting for the right man, she bumps into Miriya, a determined girl on the go, whose womanizing hunk of a boyfriend, Arturo, is cheating on her. Lorena learns of this affair while she and Miriya became fast friends. What Lorena doesn't know is that Miriya has been having a secret fling of her own with a mysterious lover. Lorena later thinks she's met the right man in art store manager Steven Meztaz. But the real trouble begins when she introduces Steven to Miriya! It's girl's night out, friendship drama, and sexy romps in the land of the telenovela!
Miriya’s soaked black dress clung to her like a dying skin from a past life struggling not to slip off. She shivered as Arturo pressed the diamond and platinum ring into her palm. He held it up first for all at the large, round table to see. He needed leverage. Show the rock, he thought. Show and dazzle. Blind them with the bling. His smile matched the brilliance of the rock. He remained on the floor like a would-be knight, awaiting the crowning sword, his hand now pressing Miriya’s thigh.
Miriya looked longingly toward her mother and sisters if on a game show.
“Say ‘yes’ and take the rock! The ROCK!” Eva would say. Her older sister never liked the ring her husband had given her.
If only her father, Fabio, were here. He would know what to do.
“Say ciao to that boludo, mono! What’s behind curtain number two?”
Arturo frowned.
“Will you marry me, my love?” He knew the answer. This was what Miriya had always wanted. It wasn’t so much a question as a command. He knew it. She knew it.
Everyone at the table knew it.
A sudden rising well of warm emotion filled Miriya as if poured from a magical chalice. It surprised her and seemed to drown this four-year-long-dream-moment. She smiled slowly as she thought of a dear friend whom she didn’t even know two months ago. Miriya remained silent as the eyes awaited her, and she marveled at how a thirty-year-old woman with an Adonis kneeling before her could only think of Lorena waiting at home and the beach at San Felipe.
Miriya wept.
About Victor Cass
Victor Cass was born in 1968 in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in Pasadena, California. His writing has appeared in Arroyo Monthly Magazine, Pasadena Weekly, and the Pasadena Star-News. His first novel, Love, Death, and Other War Stories, was published in 2005. He lives in Pasadena and has a daughter, Elizabeth.
When legal secretary Lorena Sandoval chooses to be single and celibate while waiting for the right man, she bumps into Miriya, a determined girl on the go, whose womanizing hunk of a boyfriend, Arturo, is cheating on her. Lorena learns of this affair while she and Miriya became fast friends. What Lorena doesn't know is that Miriya has been having a secret fling of her own with a mysterious lover. Lorena later thinks she's met the right man in art store manager Steven Meztaz. But the real trouble begins when she introduces Steven to Miriya! It's girl's night out, friendship drama, and sexy romps in the land of the telenovela!
Victor Cass was born in 1968 in Kingsville, Texas, and raised in Pasadena, California. His writing has appeared in Arroyo Monthly Magazine, Pasadena Weekly, and the Pasadena Star-News. His first novel, Love, Death, and Other War Stories, was published in 2005. He lives in Pasadena and has a daughter, Elizabeth.