Chapter 132

• Celeste’s POV
• I could feel the tension coiling in the air around Headmaster David like a wolf scenting intruders. No matter what I asked, he insisted he knew nothing. His eyes narrowed, voice clipped, and then, with that infuriating calm, he asked me, “Why are you looking for Benny?”
• It was the question I had expected but didn’t want to hear. To anyone else, to the world, I was Celeste Hallow—the girl whose past was a storm of disgrace and exile from St. Helion Academy. Benny had no connection to me. None at all. Why now, after all these years, would I even bring her up?