After a painstaking five-day wait, Monday finally arrived—the day Coco had eagerly anticipated her date with the enigmatic Win8Lan. As the minutes ticked closer to their meeting, anxiety bubbled within her, her palms growing slick with sweat. A whirlwind of worries enveloped her thoughts, each one more daunting than the last.
What if she found him unattractive?
What if he turned out to be rude, treating women harshly like some men she had known?
Coco carried the emotional scars of her father's mistreatment of her mother, a man who preferred the company of other women to that of his family, leaving her mother dejected and heartbroken. A cacophony of arguments had erupted until they finally separated, and Coco now resided with her mother, who, despite the heartache, found solace and strength in her thriving career at a large company.
