Rascality

rascality
/rasˈkalɪti/
noun
mischievous or dishonest behaviour or activity.

Addilyn never expected her life to become this.

One minute she's spiralling through parties, drugs, and self-destruction, and the next she's living inside a mansion with brothers she barely knows-men who are dangerous, powerful, overprotective, and impossible to understand.

Vincent controls everything with cold calmness. Lorenzo is quiet, watchful, and impossible to read. Alonzo hides his loyalty behind humour and chaos. Dante solves problems with his fists, Rico masks concern with sarcasm, and somewhere in the middle of it all is five-month-old Mae-the tiny baby who somehow becomes the only thing capable of softening Addilyn's walls.

Forced into an elite private school after months away, Addilyn is thrown into a world of wealth, secrets, tension, parties, and unwanted attention. But as old connections resurface, tempers explode, and dangerous people start getting too close, she realises this family isn't normal.

And neither is she anymore.

Because behind the luxury and control is something darker-a family built on power, loyalty, violence, and the kind of love that destroys anyone who threatens one of their own.

Between late-night chaos, complicated relationships, brutal protectiveness, and feelings she doesn't know how to handle, Addilyn has to figure out whether this new life is saving her...

Or ruining her beyond repair.