A med student's past with a crime lord resurfaces after his boyfriend's betrayal.
Lucas Bennett watches his medical future crumble when boyfriend Jasper drugs and discards him at a party. That same night, Jasper's father Arthur Devine, the West Coast mafia don, confronts Lucas with a possessive demand that exposes their reckless one-night stand from three years earlier. The revelation drags Lucas into a crossfire of vengeance: stepbrother Blake springs a trap, Jasper retaliates with forced drugging, and rival Amod exploits a blood feud to coerce Lucas into shooting Arthur. Through abductions and gunfire, Arthur repeatedly shields Lucas, offering quiet reassurance amid chaos. As lies shred, Lucas realizes a supposed love potion sparked the fall, but Arthur's steady vow beneath gunpoint made him stay.
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Harvard Medical School campus
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stepson and stepbrother rivalry
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mafia blood feud vengeance
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