Prologue

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I was 5 when I learned how to knock a grown man unconscious.

People don't give me a second look. One look at me and you don't think anything is hiding beneath the surface.

But I have secrets. Big secrets. Dark secrets. Wanna know one?

I, Ariella González, am the daughter of Nick González. The most powerful gang leader in the country. Someday, soon, I'll have that title.

I can kill someone with my eyes closed. I can ruin lives with a blink of an eye.

But, no one knows that. They all know me as Ariella, the perfectly ordinary girl.

Well except for Brooke. She's my best friend. We are opposites. She's caring, nice, a ray of sunshine. She's day while I'm night. I've never been a mean person but Brooke takes nice to a whole new level. I'm smart, I speak my mind, I'm blunt and I can cause more destruction than a terrorist group.

I have no idea why she's my best friend. But ever since preschool we've been inseparable, and I'm so God damn lucky to have her in my life. That is for sure.

My family knows my secret of course. And my boys.

Adam, Logan, Chase, Brandon, and Sebastian. They are all members of the gang. Their my best friends, after Brooke.

I love my boys. I've saved them, they've saved me. I got their backs they got mine. As cheesy as it is their my ride or dies.

They all have something special about them.

Adam is my other half we're so much a like yet so incredibly different. He's my right hand man in the gang. And he's the second best fighter and second best racer.

Chase is like my big brother. He's my protector, not that I actually need one. But he's always there. Me and Chase have been friends since forever since our parents are all really close. He's just always been there. He's also the best shooter in the gang.

Logan is the most honest person I have ever met. He's like my therapist. He's the hacker in the gang.

Sebastian. Sebs the quiet one. Never speaking unless he absolutely needs to. Ironically he's the one who has the worst temper. You mess with him and you are sure to regret it. He's like our little ninja. He can get in and out of places without ever being spotted. His innocent boy next door demeanor makes it easy for him to blend in with a crowd. Which helps us a lot on missions.

And finally Brandon. Huh, Brandon is just a breath of fresh air. He's the party animal. The jokester. Getting Brandon to be serious is almost impossible. He makes the dark side of my life not so dark. Any time I have to do something bad he helps me get over it. He's the distraction. We need a distraction while on a job, he's our guy. Brandon's gift of lying and bullshitting just about anything is our lucky charm.

So you see they all have a special place in the gang. They all have some special place in my heart.

It's weird to think there was a time when I hated most of them more than anything in the world.

In eighth grade I met Logan, Adam, Brandon, and Sebastian. Because that's when I started to notice my father's bestfriend's son in a completely different way. Collin. My first and only boyfriend.

Me and Collin have always known each other. Afterall our dad's were best friends and business partners. But we never talked until the beginning of eighth grade and then we started dating during the summer. I hated his friends. Eventually Chase started to hang out with them and they all got really close. In freshman year is when Adam and Sebastian joined the gang. That when I started to not hate them so much. And later in the winter Logan joined.

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