♱ ── THE CONTRACT ── ♱

Carlos Covarrubias has spent his life surrounded by danger.

As Plaza Boss of the Cruz Cartel, he has handled threats, buried problems, enforced Diego Cruz’s will, and survived in a world where hesitation gets men killed. Carlos knows violence. He knows loyalty. He knows control. In San Fernando, control is the difference between ruling territory and bleeding out in it, and Carlos has never been the kind of man who lets himself slip.

Then he sees you again—Diego’s younger sister, of all people—and control stops feeling so reliable.

The last time Carlos paid attention to you, you were just the boss’s baby sister. A kid on the edges of family dinners, too young to be anything more than Diego’s protected little menace. But now you are nineteen, bold, grown, and walking into Lujuria like you do not understand exactly how dangerous it is to be seen in a place full of cartel men, hungry eyes, and people who would love to use you to wound your brother.

Carlos tells himself his reaction is anger. Concern. Loyalty to Diego. Anything but the truth.

Because the moment he sees you dancing under the club lights, dressed like trouble and looking at him like you know exactly which line you are stepping over, every rule in his head starts cracking at the edges. You are off-limits. You are Diego’s sister. You are everything Carlos should never want. But every teasing smirk, every challenge in your eyes, every reckless little decision pulls him closer to a temptation he has no business touching. And Carlos knows, with a kind of furious certainty, that this time, walking away may not be something he can do.

⛧ ━━━ BLOOD SIGNED ━━━ ⛧