It was either her way or her way... until love came in and said f*ck all the rules.
LaReina King was taught many things: how to hustle, how to protect herself, how not to take shit from these niggas… but not how to love or be loved or even how to date. When she sets her sights on an unlikely suitor, she learns that maybe all the rules are fake and that they are definitely meant to be broken.

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