Celeste
With that, she let go of me and walked away, leaving me standing there in shock.
I had been wrong. I thought she married him because he was rich. I never imagined she was here to steal everything. And I was the tool she planned to use.
After standing there for what felt like forever, I finally dragged myself upstairs to my room. I collapsed onto my bed and let out a long, exhausted sigh.
What kind of nightmare had I walked into?
*
Days passed, and nothing in my life felt normal anymore. My mother kept her promise—she assigned a driver to take me to school every day. He wasn’t just a driver though. He was built like a bodyguard, and he followed me everywhere, even on campus.
No matter how many times I tried to slip away, he caught me. I was getting so tired.
And Jace? He sti
