UNCLE’S RULES

VICTOR LESNAR (ML) - 40YRS

SOPHIA DERVIC (FL) - 18YRS

SOPHIA’S POV

I turned eighteen three months ago, but it feels like I’ve been trapped in limbo forever.

After the accident—Mom and Dad gone in one cruel twist of fate—I had nowhere to go. Uncle Victor stepped in without hesitation. Mom’s older brother, the one I’d only met at holidays, the quiet giant who sent birthday cards with crisp hundred-dollar bills inside. He flew me out to his ranch in Montana the week after the funeral, and I’ve been here ever since.

The ranch is isolated—acres of rolling hills, a barn that smells of hay and leather, and...