Caldera Blood

Alone behind the counter, Mira looks down at the bin with the ruined card and pin inside.

Teo went out back to sort delivery slips, and the shop went quiet.

The man who kissed me on my own doorstep wasn't some tired stranger from a bar. He was a family. A family this whole city steps around.

Caldera Blood

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I wore a red wig and a fake name to a card game I had no business being in. I only wanted my mother's sewing machine back from Delphine Marchetti. She wanted me to make a fool of myself in front of the man in the back room. He was supposed to laugh at me. Instead he stood up, took my hand, and ended her game. Rafael Caldera is not a man you play games with. He is quieter than his reputation and more dangerous than the whispers. He has lost someone, and he carries it like a wound that won't close. I saw him break, and he let me hold him. I promised myself I would never see him again. Then my ex came back to humiliate me, and the only place I wanted to run was straight to Rafael. Now he knows my real name, and he is not letting me go after one night.