Chapter 28. Mask

Thorne POV

The door swung open as Celeste stormed inside, gripping a necklace that dangled from her hands. My gaze coasted over to her as she marched towards me with eyes blazing with fury.

“What is this, Thorne?” Her chest heaved up and down. “Did you give Freya this necklace or did she steal it? What am I even saying? She stole it because you would never give her something this precious to her”

“She deserves to be punished. You can’t let this slide!”

A smile crept at the corner of my mouth because it was just the reaction that I had expected from Celeste.

The longer I stared at her, the more anger surged through me, my mind spiraling back to everything I’d uncovered about her. When she pulled up that mental issue card against Rayna in a bid to exonerate herself, I had this thought nudging at the back of my mind that something was wrong.

My mind was so unsettled that I could hardly sleep until I was forced to visit the mental institute mys