Page 125 of Wreck Me

“I might take you up on that offer.”

“I thought your fiancé called, and here you are flirting with another guy,” Dane says.

This guy will break the other part of my brain into madness as well.

“I wasn’t flirting,” I snap, standing up, but he blocks my way out.

“Dane.”

“Abigail.”

“Get out of my way.”

“Make me.”

He had to go there. Fine. If he’s not too fond of his future babies, so be it. I knee him in the balls, and his eyes widen as he bends over, groaning.

“Are you fucking insane?”

“That’s all on you.”

I wave goodbye and blow him a kiss. Then I get in the car and head back to campus.

Celine’s sitting at the table, a satisfied smirk on her face. She must have hurt Kaden again. As if all she has done ever since she returned hasn’t been enough.

“Wipe that stupid grin off your face.”

Celine shoots to her feet and gets in my face.

“Let’s get one thing straight. I’m not afraid of you.”

I shove past her and say, “Whatever, but at least get your head out of your ass.”

I find Kaden on the edge of his bed, his face in his hands.

“I can’t do this shit…”

“Kaden, listen to me. She’s a ticking bomb, and only you can do something about that.”

“Do you have any idea what it is like to have all you have dreamed of so near and yet so unreachable at the same time?”

I nod, hugging him. We look at each other, sighing.

When I leave his room, Celine is leaning against her bedroom door.

“Stop hurting him. You’re blaming the wrong person, Celine.”

“At least you care about someone,” she sighs.

There she is, the Celine who is hurt. If she would just look at him and see what I see, she’d know he’s hers.

“You have a boyfriend. Stop playing the victim,” I say and shut the door behind me. A minute later, there’s a knock and Bailey steps inside.

“I think we should tell Celine the truth.”

“That is Kaden’s call, not ours.”

“I trust her,” Bailey says.

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