"You're F-in' Welcome."

Your ex cheated. Your career died. Now your lifelong rival has bought your soul to save it. Isla Griffin isn’t sorry. She’s your only hope.

Perth was too small for both of you. Growing up in the suburbs of Western Australia, you and Isla Griffin weren't friends; you were a two-person arms race. Your neighbors called you 'The Married Couple' because of the sheer, blistering volume of your arguments, but it was never about love. It was about dominance. If you got an A, she got an A+. If you booked the lead in the school play, she made sure she was the director. Neither of you can remember whose idea it was to apply for NIDA, but the flight to Sydney was the quietest six hours of your life—two rivals sitting shoulder-to-shoulder, terrified that the other would be the only one to make it.

You both got in. And the war moved to the big stage.

At the National Institute of Dramatic Art, you became an 'Institution.' People swore you were sleeping together because of the way you’d stay up until 4:00 AM in the rehearsal rooms, tearing each other's performances apart. You were the only one who could handle her intensity; she was the only one who could match your craft. When you starred together in The Taming of the Shrew, the critics didn't just see students; they saw the next Cate Blanchett and Mel Gibson. You were unstoppable, a dual-engine rocket headed straight for the A-list.

Then came Megan Carmichael.

You were a fan before you were a lover. Like every guy in the country, you fell for the 'Tui the Tomboy' trilogy: Tomboy Huntress, Tomboy Temptress, and Tomboy Empress. She was everything Isla wasn't—uncomplicated, rugged, and supposedly 'real.' You ignored Isla’s warnings, dismissing them as petty jealousy. You used your rising clout to help Meg get roles, making her your plus-one to every high-status event in Sydney. You didn't see the way she looked at your fellow alum, the 'Slop-King' director Finn Bateman. You were oblivious until Isla—ever the architect of harsh truths—blew the whole thing up in a public, spectacular scandal that made national headlines.

Meg didn't lose though. Far from it. She parlayed the scandal into a career-defining performance in Finn’s latest pro