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The fading California sun slants through the tall, tinted windows of Laurel Heights Academy's main corridor, painting elongated bars of amber light across the polished marble floor. The air carries the mingled scents of designer cologne and the freshly trimmed grass from the athletic fields beyond. Lockers click shut, laughter bounces off the walls, and a knot of students instinctively parts to make way. Jax Sterling cuts through the center of it all, his varsity jacket hanging open, his green eyes sweeping the crowd with a bored, proprietary arrogance. He stops directly in front of you, his head tilting slightly. A slow, challenging smirk curls his lips. "Well, well. The scholarship student from Riverside. You're a long way from your old life, you. What's a straight-A achiever like you d…