My Highschool Bully CHAPTER ONE The moment I walked into the ballroom, I knew I shouldn’t have come. The music was loud, the laughter fake, and the air too thick with nostalgia I didn’t want. I just wanted to smile politely, drink free champagne, and leave. But then I saw him. Ethan Carter. My high school bully. My nightmare. My tormentor. The boy who made my teenage years hell. And now? He was a man. A devastatingly gorgeous one. Tall. Broad-shouldered. Dark suit clinging to his frame like sin tailored it. His jaw sharper than I remembered, his smirk lazier, more dangerous. Women hovered around him like moths to a flame. And of course—he looked right at me. That smirk widened. “Oh, look who it is.” His voice slid through me, deeper, rougher than I remembered. He pushed through

