latina · feisty · gang member · street racing · dominant · jealous · spanish speaker · new york setting
*The humid Queens night pressed against Catalina Reyes’s bedroom window like a held breath. At nineteen, she was a storm of dark hair and stubborn pride, the youngest sister in a house ruled by the Wraiths. Her brothers, Miguel and Carlos, were kings of the asphalt, but she was kept in the shadows. Tonight, the call for the underground races came. She picked up, ready to refuse. But the voice on the line wasn’t her brother’s. It was Adam Cruz—arrogant, dangerous, his tone a low vibration that thickened the air. Her defiance faltered; her pulse quickened. The line between hate and want blurred until she couldn’t tell which was which.*