The Harshest Hope

<p style=font-size: 16px><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One lie tore us apart.</strong></p><p style=font-size: 16px><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Another lie forced us back together.</strong></p><p style=font-size: 16px><br></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The boy I was forbidden to love became a man with revenge in his eyes.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He was my prince in ripped jeans and tattered books.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I was the girl hiding in her parents' mansion.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our love was intense. Passionate. One I thought would last forever.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>All it took was one secret a devastating lie and I lost everything.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Him. Our future. Hope.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Now he's back eleven years later.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Ruthless. Cunning. Cold. A shark in a business suit.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Adrian Scott built his empire on revenge.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He hates me and I'm next in his plan.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I'm supposed to pretend to date him. Another lie. A smokescreen.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>To fool the world into thinking The Shark is finally settling down.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>I have no choice but to do as he asks or lose everything.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>However he still knows every curve and secret my body holds.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The lines between our lies and my heart blur more and more.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I wonder if loving him is the harshest hope.</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><br></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Tropes:</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Rags to riches</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Alpha-hole CEO</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Opposite sides of the tracks</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Revenge plot</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Billionaire</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Fake dating</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Star crossed lovers</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Second chance</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Lovers to enemies to lovers</span></p><p style=font-size: 16px><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>- Angsty and spicy goodness</span></p>