Alfredo’s Pov

“Hey, Alfie.”

I woke up to Sheila’s caresses on my face. She lay with her eyes closed as she called my name. I turned around to look at the time, wondering the reason she would call me by this time of the morning.

“I think someone has been calling for your attention,” she said as she turned the other way, humming her way to another round of sleep.

I sighed as I threw the sheets off my body, dropping both legs onto the floor. It was barely dawn with the rays of the sun having a hard time to pierce the night sky.

“I’m coming,” I said as...