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....