Chapter 87 Unveiling Secrets

• Rachel POV
• The hum of the car engine was a low, steady pulse beneath the weight of my thoughts as I sat in the passenger seat, my fingers drumming restlessly against the leather armrest. Bonnie drove with a focused intensity, her eyes fixed on the winding road that led to Nick and Scarlett’s mansion, her jaw set in a way that mirrored my own determination. The late afternoon sun filtered through the trees, casting dappled shadows across the dashboard, but its warmth did little to ease the chill of anticipation coiling in my chest. We had a plan—a risky, audacious plan—to sneak into Celine’s room, to dig through her secrets and find something, anything, that could incriminate her. Something I could use to pry her away from Jeremy, to shatter the hold she had over him and protect the man I loved from her venomous grasp.
• Celine. The name alone sparked a fire in my veins, a mix of anger and fear that burned hotter with every thought of her. Her engagement to Jeremy, a calculated move cloaked in false affection, was a blade pressed against my heart, and her cryptic threats—those veiled warnings that lingered like smoke—haunted me, a reminder that she was a danger we couldn’t ignore. Bonnie had been the one to suggest this, her sharp mind piecing together a strategy after I’d confided in her about Celine’s hold over Jeremy, about the wedding plans that felt like a noose tightening around us. “We need leverage,” Bonnie had said, her voice steady, her eyes blazing with resolve. And now, here we were, on the cusp of a mission that could change everything—or ruin us.