Thorns Grow After Betrayal (Celeste and Chester) novel Chapter 266

Celestine had always chalked it up to puberty. Maybe her features had just matured, she thought.

It wasn’t until much later that she realized the truth.

There was a performance coming up in the drama club—Joanna was supposed to play the lead, but at the last minute, another girl was cast instead. Word was, Joanna had cozied up to the club president and managed to get her rival cut from the show, just a day before opening night.

No one expected that girl to come from such a powerful family.

On the day of the performance, the school’s social feed erupted with rumors about Joanna’s plastic surgery. Things got so out of hand that the school administration had to step in to suppress the scandal.

Back then, Celestine had thrown herself into defending Joanna, fighting back against the rumor mill. Her hard drive was packed with photos and videos she’d gathered as “evidence.”

She never imagined Joanna would betray her—confessing in person that the rumors were true, and even getting down on her knees to apologize to that other girl.

Celestine remembered holding all those flimsy “proofs” in her hands, her heart bleeding from the humiliation.

Now, while cleaning out her cloud drive, she’d come across those old photos and videos. She’d even sorted them again, thinking she might give Joanna a little surprise.

She hadn’t expected Joanna to come begging for them.

Fine, Celestine thought. If Joanna wanted them so badly, she’d hand them over.

But clearly, something had gone awry.

If Joanna had actually seen what was in those files, there’s no way she’d have let those videos leak.

The videos couldn’t be commented on, but the trending topics were on fire—users on the live feed trading insults faster than anyone could keep up.

“Holy crap, that ugly duckling is Joanna?!”

“No way! I really thought she was a natural beauty. There’s even a ‘golden face’ model of her at the cosmetic surgery clinic—I thought it was a knockoff, but turns out it’s the real deal!”

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