Raspados & Regret (Bahía Nights)

Fabian Salcedo doesn’t do drama, feelings, or men who run their mouths just to see what happens.

Unfortunately, Elías “Lalo” Cárdenas is all three.

When a summer night market mix-up forces Fabian to share booth space with Lalo’s family raspado stand, their years-long neighborhood beef turns into the hottest attraction in the East Bay. Customers come for the shaved ice, but stay for the bickering, the tension, and the very real possibility that one of them might finally snap.

Fabian does snap.

He kisses Lalo behind the stand after closing.

Then immediately blames the heat.

But one bad decision turns into two. Two turns into a secret. And Fabian starts to realize regret has never looked better in slutty little glasses and five-inch inseam shorts.

Raspados & Regret is a spicy MM second-chance romance with family chisme, messy feelings, bilingual heat, public claiming, soft boys who deserve better, and grown men realizing love does, in fact, require emotional accountability.