You Started The Game

There are rules in this city. No one writes them down-but everyone follows them.

She didn't.

Moving into a new house was supposed to be simple. Instead, it comes with two stepbrothers she barely knows, a cousin who has always been her constant, and a life that suddenly feels unfamiliar. The kind of unfamiliar that doesn't warn you before it changes everything.

Because the boys she now lives with aren't just rich-they're part of something no one talks about.

A hidden world where rival groups take over the streets of Los Angeles after dark. Where a single ring decides who becomes the target. Thirty minutes to escape. Everyone else chasing. No rules, no mercy, and no second chances.

She should stay away from it. From the game. From them.

Especially from him.

He's controlled, arrogant, and used to winning. The kind of person who doesn't get distracted, who doesn't lose, and who definitely doesn't cross lines with his own stepsister. But she doesn't behave the way people expect. She doesn't try to impress him, doesn't follow his rules, and doesn't care enough to keep her distance.

Which makes her impossible to ignore.

Living under the same roof turns distance into proximity and boundaries into something fragile. What starts as irritation slowly shifts into something sharper-something that lingers in quiet moments and unspoken tension. Something that feels real, even when it shouldn't.

Her cousin trusts too easily. She doesn't trust at all.

But even she can't ignore that things are changing.

Because this isn't just a game played on the streets. It's something deeper, something personal, something she doesn't fully understand yet.

And when the truth finally comes out, it won't just hurt.

It will change everything she thought she knew-about them, about the game, and about herself.

Some rules are meant to be followed. Some lines are meant to be crossed.

And some games... were never meant to be survived.