Where Borders Break (MM)

Adrián Vance has built his life on control.
At 6'4", older, disciplined, and feared in his field, he believes in order, in rules, in the quiet authority of doing what must be done-no matter how ugly it looks from the outside.
Then he sees Mateo Reyes.
5'2". Mexican. Stubborn to the bone. Eyes that don't lower, even when they should.
Mateo is supposed to be processed, documented, and deported like the rest.
Instead, he becomes a disruption.
What begins as a glance turns into attention.
Attention turns into fixation.
Fixation turns into something Adrián refuses to name.
Mateo doesn't make it easy.
He resists. He provokes. He refuses to be pitied-or owned.
But the more he pushes, the tighter something coils inside Adrián.
Because for the first time in years...
control starts slipping.
And what replaces it?
Isn't softer.
It's worse.