Celeste

The office went silent the second I stepped out of the elevator. Not completely silent... but that awkward hush when people were pretending they hadn’t just been talking about you.

My stomach dropped. Something was wrong again.

Mina had been making my life hell for weeks now. I should have told Jace about it, but I didn’t want to burden him with my problems.

Ever since the last time Jace came home to pick me up, he’d stopped coming entirely. Father had found a driver to take me to ...