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Charleigh shot to her feet. “I’m going.”
I flew to mine, and the words ground off my tongue. “No. We already agreed on the plan, Charleigh. We find out where he has Nolan, and we go in and get him back.”
I left off the part where I was going to put a permanent end to Frederick Winston. He wouldn’t hurt either of them ever again.
Charleigh’s jaw clenched, and a fresh round of tears slipped from her eyes. “That’s my son, River. You can’t expect me to sit aside and wait. I know you will fight for him…but don’t ask me not to fight for him, too.”
Half a second later, I had her in my arms. Plastering her against me. That sweet body burned, fire against my flesh, and her heart bashed in time with mine.
Two chaotic souls who’d give it all.
My hand wound in her hair, and I kissed her.
Kissed her hard and desperate and with every ounce of devotion I had.
Then I pulled back and murmured, “Let’s go get our son.”
Everyone had gathered, antsy and eager, unsure what we were going to come up against. We weren’t fool enough to believe a man like Frederick Winston was just going to do as he’d promised.
And neither the fuck were we.
FIFTY-EIGHT
CHARLEIGH
“Please, be careful.”Raven squeezed me so tight I was sure it was going to leave bruises. Or maybe I felt brittle. Fragile yet impenetrable.
As if I had been broken.
Whittled all the way down to bare bone and exposed to the marrow.
Yet in it, I’d been reborn.
Because the fear that had terrorized me for five years had been altered.
Shaved and pared down to one single moment.
This moment.
This moment that meant everything for Nolan.
And that fear would no longer own me or control me. I’d face it the way I’d regretted for years that I hadn’t done from the beginning, forever wishing I’d had the courage to cut Frederick Winston down from the start.
From that first day when he sent the false information accusing my father of embezzling.
“I will,” Ipromised her.
Eden and Salem hovered behind, anxiety thick as they anxiously shifted. Empathy and worry were etched clearly in their expressions.
It didn’t go unnoticed that their husbands were putting themselves on the line for us, and I would be grateful to all of them for the rest of my life.
The way they’d rallied around us.
A promise to bring Nolan home.
To put an end to this nightmare that had started so many years ago.
“Everyone ready?” River asked. His attention was sharp as it traveled over all their faces.
