Cruel Intentions

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Welcome to Eastern High...</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I swore I'd never come back here.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But life has a way of dragging you back to the places you'd rather forget.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And to the people you'd rather hate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Noah Hayes was everything to me once.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My first love. My first heartbreak. My first everything.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now he's nothing like the boy I used to know.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This Noah is darker colder and cruel enough to make me regret ever coming back.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He doesn't just rule Eastern High-he owns it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Every word is a dagger. Every look a reminder of everything we lost. And he's made it his mission to break me.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But I'm not the same girl he left behind.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He can try to push me break me destroy me-but I've already survived worse.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If Noah Hayes thinks I'm just another pawn in his twisted game he's about to learn the hard way:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm not playing.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This is war. And if he wants to come for me he'd better be ready to lose.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Full story. No cliffhangers.</strong></p><p></p>