Chapter 34 Manipulated By His Love

• Rachel POV
• The silence in the car was suffocating, a heavy weight that seemed to crush the air between us. I stared out the window, the city lights streaking past in neon blurs against the dark glass, but my mind was a storm—thoughts spinning, crashing, finding no rest. What was happening to us?
• Why was Jeremy still with Celine when everything—his looks, his touches, his whispered promises—screamed that he loved me too? I didn’t understand. Nothing made sense. And something inside me, a low, insistent voice, warned that this story wouldn’t resolve with pretty words or fragile gestures. Not this time.