Rage Quit

Six years of silence was supposed to be enough.

Briar Kessing has built a career on precision, control, and never needing anyone twice. Dahlia Okonkwo-Reyes has built hers on warmth, charm, and a smile bright enough to keep anyone from looking too closely. Once, they were creative partners with the kind of chemistry that made impossible projects work. Then one accusation destroyed their studio, their friendship, and everything neither of them had been brave enough to name.

Now they are public rivals with devoted online fandoms that have turned their feud into entertainment.

So when their shared publisher gives them an ultimatum-merge their two unfinished indie games into one project or lose their funding-Briar and Dahlia are forced back into the same rooms, the same deadlines, and the same arguments they abandoned six years ago.

At first, survival means boundaries. Separate work. Professional conversations. No revisiting the past.

Then come the late-night debugging calls.

Old creative shorthand returns before either woman is ready for it. Arguments become banter. Silence starts feeling familiar instead of hostile. And beneath every sarcastic comment and carefully casual glance is the dangerous realization that the connection between them may have survived everything they did to bury it.

But rebuilding trust is harder when thousands of strangers think they already know who betrayed whom. As pressure around the game intensifies and an old controversy threatens to drag their history back into the spotlight, Briar and Dahlia must decide whether they can finally confront what really happened-or let pride, fear, and the internet finish what six years of silence started.

When loving someone means giving them the power to hurt you twice, can two former rivals risk choosing each other again?