Page 108 of Corrupt Me

Seeing my friends so shaken up, hurt and angry on my behalf, I give in. Opening the bottle, I pour each of us a glass, then raise mine. “To Family.”

“To Family,” they reply, and we clink our glasses.

The atmosphere lightens as we prepare popcorn bags, and then we move to the theater room. It’s been a while since we watched a movie, but it’s the first time Bailey is cuddled to my side, which I enjoy most.

They are my family, and that infuses me with purpose. I’ll do whatever it takes to keep my family intact.

Once Felix is taken care of, I will create the strongest foundation on which to build our legacy.

My love for Hunter stretches beyond infinity. I can’t take my eyes off him, watching his features drawn in a peaceful sleep. He looks so serene, so different from the chaos of our lives. After last night, when he pulled me to him during the group hug, it was as if I was the only one he truly needed.

He peeks one eye open, and I give him the same reply as he gave me. “Enjoying the view.”

His smile is so radiant it brightens my insides. “Take your fill then.”

“I’d never get my fill.”

“Now I am hard, happy?”

I snort a laugh. “I’m so sorry for the inconvenience. How can I be of service?” I ask, batting my lashes at him.

“Take care of my dick.”

I love that gravelly, deep tone laced with a command that instantly makes me wet. My need for him only grows, and I doubt this insatiable desire will ever be appeased. It gets bigger and bigger while our relationship gets better and better.

Two orgasms later, I dress and leave him to get ready. I go downstairs to see the girls all gathered around the kitchen table.

“So, what are we going to do?” Abi inquires, her voice tinged with urgency.

Mia’s lips purse in a tight line, her eyes narrowing with determination. “Fuck priorities. I need her to suffer.”

Celine stares into space, playing with a kitchen knife. “I want cockroaches to eat her rotten corpse.”

“We need to go to London,” I say, and we all exchange a glance.

“The guys will never be okay with that,” Celine voices what we’re all thinking.

Placing my elbow on the table, I lean my cheek in my palm. “Yeah, but who knows when we’ll finally catch Felix.”

“I hate that we’ll have to lie to them, but fuck it. They will forgive us,” Abi says, and we nod in agreement.

“I can talk to Mom and tell her we need some girl time, and she can cover for us,” Celine suggests.

“One day, that’s all we need,” I say, fully on board with this plan.

I do a lot of thinking and planning over the next week. Stalking Alice online, I find out what she does every hour of every day. I hacked her office laptop and her phone, and I have watched her social media nonstop. I want her to suffer first. Death would be too easy for her, but what I have in mind will be a slow, agonizing torment before she dies. With time not being on our side, I must be content with the few hours of torture.

While the girls flesh out the plan, seated around the kitchen table and not caring at all about preparing breakfast, I have my own plan. No one hurts the man I love and gets away with it. I don’t care about right or wrong. His abuser will pay.

When the guys come downstairs, suspicion glints in Kaden’s eyes, but Celine kisses him, distracting him well enough. As no one wants to cook, we decide to go on campus and have breakfast at a coffee shop.

I don’t want to lie to Hunter, but this need to avenge the small boy and lost teenager overshadows anything else. Not wanting him to have even a smidgen of doubt that we’re planning something, I shower him with all my love and attention.

He’d do the same, so I know he will forgive me. I’ll take his frustration, aware he’ll fuck me so hard I will probably promise him never to do something like that again.

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It’s Friday morning, and we told the guys that Cassandra summoned us to the estate. The matriarch is going to be furious when she finds out we lied to her about planning a wellness day. But she would stop us, or worse, take our revenge from us.

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