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In the shadows of Baton Rouge, she grew up where sirens never really stop and survival is a language everyone learns young. Surrounded by addiction, violence, and a family slowly lost to the streets, she made herself a promise early on-she would never become what the hood made everyone else.
She would escape.
But promises get complicated when Kentrel Deshawn Gaulden walks into your life.
He's everything she swore she'd stay away from-gang affiliated, armed, living deep in the life she's been trying to outrun. Yet behind the hardened reputation is the boy who swore to protect her, the one person who's always had her back... no matter the cost.
Now he's her closest friend. Her protector. Her plug.
Between late-night talks, quiet loyalty, and feelings neither of them dare to name, their bond grows into something neither expected-and neither knows how to survive.
Because sometimes the person who feels the most like home... comes from the very world you were trying to escape.