Page 87 of Run to Me

“Morning,” she rasps.

“Morning angel,” I say and pour her a coffee. We’re both drinking decaf these days of course, can’t have anything harming our little one, and since the baby is half mine, I’ve basically declared myself as pregnant too and banned myself from all contraband. Robyn thinks I’m being ridiculous. I think I’m being a supportive husband and that more men should be like me.

“I didn’t like waking up alone.” She frowns as I sit down and plops herself on my lap.

“Sorry,” I murmur. “We need to talk.”

Her breath catches in her throat, and I know she knows what’s coming.

“It’s okay, Enzo. I know you need to do whatever it is you plan on doing and I’d rather not know the details, just know I love you and know that you’re doing whatever you think is best for our family.” She presses a kiss to my chin and the tension drains from my shoulders as I wrap my arms around her, nuzzling her hair as she leans back against me and lets out a shuddering breath.

“I love you,uccellina.”

“Love you.”

Istroll into the warehouse like I don’t have a care in the world, nodding to each soldier as I pass them. They nod back, though I don’t miss the hint of trepidation in their eyes. Over the last however many years—since I first started coming here at the age of sixteen—I’ve garnered a…reputation.

In other words, they all think I’m a raging lunatic who should be locked away in some sort of asylum.

Not sure why, since I’m like a ray of fucking sunshine.

Well, I’m currently putting on a sunshine exterior while inwardly buzzing with adrenaline and… anxiety? I think this is anxiety. All I know is I fucking hate being away from Robyn and I was attempting to call this thing off until Izzy put a gun to my head and told me to “get the fuck out” of my own apartment.

That girl is fucking crazy, and I appreciate it, because I need to get this shit over and done with so Robyn and I can move on.

I reach the main room of the warehouse where Jeremy has been held since Dad and Luca brought him here. I made sure the guards had been giving him as little food and water as possible whilst also keeping him alive since I didn’t want the fucker dying before I got some alone time with him.

Call it brotherly bonding or whatever.

Ifind him strapped to a chair in the center of the room, he’s either asleep or passed out from exhaustion, though I don’t really give a fuck which.

I walk over and slap him awake. “Wakey, wakey,” I singsong.

His head snaps up and he blinks rapidly before jolting backwards when he realizes it’s me standing in front of him.

Well, he jolts as far as he can while having his full body wrapped in chains and rope.

“I’ve gotta say, Jer, it’s been a long time coming, huh? I mean… I went and married your little sister before even doing the wholemeeting the familything. Well, she met mine, of course. But we never got to have that whole ‘if you hurt her, I’ll kill you chat,’ did we? Though if I’m being honest, it’d be a bit wasted now, wouldn’t it? Considering you kidnapped my wife and unborn child.”

One of the men stood off to the side of the room sucks in a breath, and I realize that even though my family know about Robyn being pregnant, it’s not common knowledge to the rest of thefamigliayet.

Oops.

Jeremy doesn’t react to the news of Robyn being pregnant, and I didn’t expect him to. He’s clearly a fucking psychopath considering what he did and was planning on doing to his own sister.

And people say I’m unhinged.

I’d never do what he did to any woman, never mind my own family. My own fucking blood.

He glares at me, but I can see the fear in his eyes. He can act tough all he likes, but I know the truth. And the truth is that he’sjust a little bitch who thought I didn’t care enough about his sister to even bother coming for her. If he was smart, he would have done his research, and he would have realized that I would’ve stopped at nothing to bring her back home to me.

Robyn may have been invisible to her family growing up, but she has a new family now. And her new family love her for who she is. We see her, all of her, and would do fucking anything for her.

Speaking of that family, I hear the door creaking open and I turn to see my father, Luca and Marco stroll inside.

I roll my eyes. “This is a surprise, to what do we owe the pleasure?”

Luca is the first to speak. “What? You think this asshole can fuck withoursister and we wouldn’t wanna be here to watch him pay for it?”