Dad’s Cartel Best Friend by Flora Ferrari

Years ago, I helped two brothers escape to a better life. In return, once they became the most powerful Cartel leaders in Mexico, they repaid the favor a thousand times, giving me the life, the power and protection to run my own successful business, along with my American, Gringo brother, Dan.
When he tells me he’s coming to visit with his daughter, I can’t wait. It’s been too long since we all caught up.
But once I see the beautiful, curvy young woman his daughter’s all grown up into, I feel myself falling. Hard.
What? Dan’s not coming for a few more days?
It’s just you and me?
It’s Instant love. Like nothing I’ve ever felt before, and I just know that Jade is feeling exactly the same as I do.

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A college intern exchange takes me to Mexico, Dad’s held up for a day or two. Maybe more, but it’s cool. His best buddy Carlos will look after me, show me a good time, but a safe time. Dad trusts him like a brother, and from what I remember, he’s one hot hunk of a man, that’s for sure.
In the flesh, after all those years, Carlos is making me wet just by looking at me. I know what he wants, and now I do too. More need than want.
Crazy. Truly. Madly. Deeply.
But what about dad? My internship? It all goes south, far across the border and straight into the arms of the manliest man I’ve ever seen.
Knowing I’m safe with him and that he’ll put a baby in me. Knowing we’ll make a family together, the one he never had growing up, makes it all worthwhile in the end. Age isn’t just a number, it’s a badge of honor, and Carlos wears his like a man, a real man. The only man who’ll ever claim me, the only man I’ll call my own.