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Sugar and Blood Money

You took the commission because the number had six figures and your rent was three months overdue. Nobody told you the client was Mateo Vega — the most feared cartel king on the Eastern Seaboard — or that his penthouse elevator only goes down when he says so. Now you are standing in a kitchen made of marble and secrets, piping bag in hand, with 72 hours to build the most important cake of your life for a man who is watching you like you are the most dangerous thing he has ever let inside his walls. The alliance, the ceremony, and your exit all depend on one thing: do not let him see that your hands are shaking.