CHAPTER 88: CHAPTER EIGHTY-EIGHT: A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL.

Celeste’s POV

I just stared at her in shock before quickly adjusting my emotions.

"I don’t know what you are talking about" I said, doing my best to stop my voice from shaking.

She continued staring at me with a mocking expression.

"Oh dear, why do you look so panicked? Look how much you are sweating" she said with a little laugh.

"You can drop the act now! You aren’t fooling me little girl" her face suddenly turned serious and she glared at me.

How did she find out?

Did she tell Raymond and that’s why he abandoned me?

So many questions were running through my mind and my palms became sweaty.

"What do you want?" I asked her with a frown.

I couldn’t just let her play with my emotions and I was certain that she must have something in mind.

"It’s this smartness of yours that I find quite attractive, despite your numerous acts of foolishness" she said with a serious expression before slowly putting her hand in her bag.

She pulled out a document and handed it to me.

"We both have a common enemy and there is a popular saying that the enemy of my enemy is my friend. So I hope we can have a pleasant cooperation" she said with a businesslike tone.

I slowly opened the document as I couldn’t understand what she meant.

The first page contains a picture of a girl of about sixteen years, Piper Scott.

Scott?

Isn’t that the name of Christy’s foster family?

Then this girl must be the sister in my investigation report, the one that tried to kill her back then.

I turned to the next page and saw a face that left quite a mark on me a few days ago.

Callie Mathews, that vulgar and violent bitch.

Turns out she was Christy’s best friend, who betrayed her by having an affair with Mark while they were still dating. She also used to work in the same club as Christy back when she was still working as a stripper.

Then, I turned to the last page and saw a photo of Mark. All his details were there and also his relationship with Raina was documented as well.

"Why are you showing me this?" I asked her, when I noticed that the file only contained information about the three of them.

"Don’t pretend like you don’t want revenge on Christy, luckily for you, I don’t want her around Kendrick anymore" she replied while staring at my eyes.

I immediately looked away as it felt like she was staring into my soul.

"What’s in it for me?" I asked bluntly.

There was no need pretending like I wasn’t interested, I will always be interested in anything that has to do with making that bitch’s life miserable.

"I will take care of your father’s loans and I will also make sure that Raymond doesn’t find out the truth about who is truly responsible for that child you are carrying" she said with her signature sweet smile.

"How am I supposed to convince Mark and Callie to work with me? And how am I to find Christy’s sister?" I asked her with a frown.

"You don’t need to convince or find them, they are already together. All you have to do is get inside information about Christy and they will handle the rest" she said with a serious expression.

They are together?.

"So, I don’t need to show my face, just phone calls? And what do you mean by inside information?" I asked her with a frown.

"I heard you are quite close to Mira, the second Miss of the Lancaster family and she isn’t on good terms with Christy either" she said.

"I am not sure Mira would be willing to help me, I’m sure you know about her mother’s death, today is the funeral and I heard she is badly shaken up" I replied to her with a frown.

"As long as there is hatred, you wouldn’t have to do much" she said with a slightly annoyed tone.

"I only approached you because I thought you were smart enough to get the job done, but now it seems like I was wrong," she added and took the document back.

"I can do it, I will convince her" I said in a rush.

There was no way I was going to let such an opportunity get past me. Especially now that I am in desperate need of money.

"I will send you some money, get something good to wear and go to a spa. You have the smell of a fish market vendor" she said before tapping the driver’s seat for him to stop the car.

I didn’t respond to her insult and just got down. I had to bear this humiliation for now, it’s only a matter of time before I turn things around.

I smiled as I brought out my phone and saw that our entire conversation was well recorded.

Ding!

My phone chimed and I quickly brought it out to check. She transferred ten thousand dollars to me.

Just ten thousand?

She acted like she was going to send me a hundred thousand or a million.

I hissed and was about to put my phone back in my purse when it chimed again.

I quickly checked and saw a text from an unknown number.

"You shouldn’t try to act smart with me little girl, I can get rid of you without leaving a trace. So if you know what is good for you, you better delete that recording"

I just read the text over and over again with trembling hands.

She knew that I was recording and didn’t say anything?

This old hag is scary.

I quickly sent a copy of the recording to my email before deleting it.

"Your father is at XX bar, I can get the loan shark to find and cripple him if you do not delete every trace of that recording. Including the one you just sent".

Another text came in before I could keep my phone. I immediately deleted every trace of the recording.

How did she know?

I looked around as a chill ran down my spine, before hurrying into the apartment.