Wreck Me - Page 192

“I’m smart.”

I chuckle. “Good.”

“You’re self-confident.”

“Ugh, I don’t know.”

That fucker. Felix took that away from her like her control.

“You are, and you’re in control. Tell that to yourself until you believe it.”

“I am self-confident. I am in control.”

“You’re worthy.”

She drags in a lungful of air. “I am…”

Her eyes lower, but I tip her chin up. “I love you—every perfect, beautiful broken piece in you. All those pieces form the woman I am mad about. Love yourself too, because you are worthy and you deserve that fully. When it gets hard, I will love you for both of us and keep reminding you how beautiful, strong, and worthy you truly are.”

Her eyes tear up. “I’m starting to believe it because how else would I have gotten you in my life?”

“Destiny.”

“I hated that word. But I can’t explain us without it. For a long time, I thought we had bad timing. But it wasn’t that at all. The first time we met, I’m sure it was to instill hope in us. We have kept on going. And now, you’re here when I’m almost free. I would like nothing more than to spend…”

She chokes on her words, so I add, “Your life with me. Because that’s what we’re going to be doing for decades from now on.”

She turns around and hugs me so tight, as if she’ll never let me go. I’ll never let her go, either.

“Taking the Family down is highly risky, but it’s a better alternative than faking our deaths.”

***

After I return from training, I find the entire group in the kitchen.

Abigail draws circles in her bowl of yogurt.

“Eat, princess.”

She tries to look annoyed, but I know she loves my care. She takes a big spoonful. “Happy?”

I love her sass.

“Good, you came. Take him through the plan,” Kaden says.

He leaves with Celine and Hunter to see a specialist in hypnosis to find out what happened on the day of that accident because Celine can’t remember. I could believe anything, but not that Celine was involved in provoking the so-called accident that caused her parents’ wreck.

Blake takes me to the side where a map is spread out on the table. It shows the underground tunnels at the Family’s compound and the laboratory in the heart of the forest. He also tells me about Sebastian—Celine’s father—and Cillian, Mia and Hunter’s father. For years, they have been planning a coup and hopefully finding Celine’s mother.

If it goes according to plan, we can live our lives in peace without being on the run. Personally, I don’t care; I just want to get to that sick fucker Felix and kill him.

We scout the location in the woods to come up with a strategy to infiltrate and hit their center of power. I will blow his fucking laboratory up with great satisfaction.

With determination flowing through my veins, I am more at ease. Juggling a mission and my career at the same time is not easy, but again, I strive to do my best and be the best.

As soon as we walk back inside the house, Abigail jumps into my arms, kissing me hard. With my palms holding her ass, I carry her to her bedroom and lose myself in her.

She is asleep next to me, but I can’t sleep. To avoid waking her, I tiptoe outside the room and see Celine sneaking into her bedroom. That’s strange.