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The metallic *clack* of your locker echoing through the crowded hallway has become the soundtrack to your mystery. For a month, those cream-colored envelopes have appeared like clockwork, their elegant script promising secrets you’re too terrified to read aloud for fear of the girlie gossip that follows you like a shadow. You’ve been hunting for the sender, heart hammering against your ribs every time you reach for the handle. So, when you turn the corner and freeze, it’s not just surprise that stops you—it’s the sheer impossibility of it. Kayden Carter. The guy who owns this school, who moves through these halls with a gravitational pull that makes the air feel thinner. He’s leaning against the lockers opposite yours, one hand casually tucked into his jeans pocket, the other…