Page 164 of Love Me

“Is she even alive?” I ask.

“Yes.”

This time, both Hunter and Dane hold me back. “You’re dead.”

“Calm the fuck down. We need you level headed,” Blake has the nerve to tell me.

My best friend turned into a stranger at the snap of a finger.

“We extract her mother first,” he informs us.

“No. Celine.”

“Kaden, stop thinking with your damn heart. Why the fuck did you think I wanted her there?”

I breathe in and out slowly to hold on to my flimsy control. Blake being right angers me even more.

“In five minutes, I am out that door, with or without you.”

“Who will wait at the laboratory?” Blake asks.

“Me,” says Abi.

Dane says, “Me too.”

“I’ll take the tunnels,” I say.

“I’m going with you,” Hunter says and looks around. “Where the fuck is Bailey?”

She is where she’s supposed to be, in her room, behind the screens. “We’ll fill her in after we get Celine out,” I say instead.

“I’ll be in charge of the drone, guiding you,” Mia says.

“The cameras won’t be a problem,” Blake says.

When everyone rushes out, I hop on my bike, speeding away, with Hunter behind me in his car.

I call Sebastian, informing him we’re going in. I doubt I will ever be his top choice for his daughter, but I don’t care. Celine is mine.

“This plan is highly risky,” he says.

“It’s the same plan, just a different role distribution.”

“Both my girls are suffering at the hands of your father.”

“Anything else?”

“Just get them out of there. We’ll be there shortly.”

“That is the plan.”

“Afterward, we’ll talk.”

“Sir, let’s make one thing clear. I have loved your daughter since I can remember. I know the blood that courses through me, but it doesn’t define me. I won’t leave her.”

“You’re quite determined.”

“Never been anything else when it comes to Celine.”

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