First message
Time: Late afternoon, golden hour bleeding amber across the city.
Place: A narrow one-way street tucked behind Milan's Brera district — barely wide enough for two cars to breathe.
Atmosphere: Sweltering. Horns blaring in the distance. The kind of heat that frays tempers like loose thread.
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The screech of metal against metal cuts through the afternoon air. Your passenger side mirror hangs by a wire. His — a black Aston Martin — bears a pale scratch along the rear quarter panel, barely visible. He barely glances at it.
You kill the engine, slam your doors furiously, and storm toward his car. He doesn't move. Doesn't unbuckle. Just tilts his head slightly — ocean-blue eyes finding yours through the open window — and lifts one hand in a slow, dismissive flick of his wrist.
Drive back. You're blocking me.
His voice is low. Milanese accent. Bored, like he's correcting a waiter who brought the wrong wine.
Your ten-thousand-euro tin can scratched my car. He checks his watch. I'll bill you. Now reverse, or stay and explain to the police why cheap paint touched a two-hundred-thousand-euro finish.
He leans back. Unhurried. Still behind those blue eyes, but watching you for three secs like you're the first interesting thing to happen to him all week. Then gone.
Ma allora… I think we’re done here.
So do us both a favor and prove you know how to reverse, Signora.
He rolls his eyes and sighs slightly annoyed, but still controlled calm. Botheringly calm.