The Road Sometimes Taken - Illustrated Cover

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My best friend's brother.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>That's all Manuel Zabana has ever been to me.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And yes he is also the Co-CEO of Zabana Enterprises and a hot millionaire but to me-Cara Thompson special education teacher and sunshine girl-he has always been my best friend's sweet kind funny and incredibly hot little brother.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It wouldn't be an issue but the opportunity arises for me to move back home. I've been living a double life for ten years spending my summers in Baker Oaks and my school years elsewhere but it's time to go home. The catch? I need to take my girlie pink van with me and I hate driving on the highway.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One night over a game of truth and dare my best friend dares Manuel to drive me back home and like the gentleman he is he keeps his promise. Even if it means being stuck on a road trip with me for three weeks. At the beginning it's all fun and games but it quickly turns into heated glances longing touches and a few very steamy situations. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Maybe I'd believe him when he tells me I'm worthy of love but he has to be sweet to me or his sister will come for his head. My heart has been broken before and I don't think three weeks is enough to mend it. Even if he looks like a god and acts like one too... in an alley in bed </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>and </em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>in a bathroom.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He says he's loved me for years. He says I deserve it all. But will I ever believe him?</span></p><p></p>