Chapter 50
**Celeste's POV**
The council chamber doors slammed behind me with a sound like thunder. My hands shook with rage as I stormed down the hallway, my heels clicking against the stone floor like gunshots. Blood roared in my ears, drowning out everything else.
She was still here. That pathetic omega was still walking the halls of my school, breathing my air, existing in my world.
I'd had her. The perfect trap. Witnesses ready to testify. Evidence that should have sealed her fate. Everything should have worked. Everything should have ended with Evangeline Cross dragged away in shame, never to be seen again.
But Ronan had ruined it all.
My chest burned with a pain so sharp it felt like someone had driven a knife between my ribs. The boy I loved, the boy who was supposed to be mi
