Keeping Me (Spy Chronicles Book 2) by Scarlett Haven

Author:Scarlett Haven [Haven, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-10-12T22:00:00+00:00

Living.

“Hold on,” I say, taking a seat in the grass.

I’m breathing so hard that it’s actually embarrassing. My heart is racing and I kind of feel like I’m about to pass out.

“How can you not even run half a mile without getting out of breath?” Sebastian asks, obviously annoyed. He looks like he could go on for another few hours. Actually, he looks like he wants to. I hate that I’m holding him back.

“Go without me,” I say, between breaths.

Which makes him roll his eyes.

Dad and the rest of the guys are out doing something. What? I am not sure. But here I am, with Bass, and I’m pretty certain any progress we made while in America was for nothing. He loathes me.

But I don’t focus on that. Instead, I focus on trying to get my heart rate down and my breathing to be steady.

“We have a lot of work to do,” Sebastian says. “You’re going to have to push yourself past your limits if you really want to do this.”

“Do I have a choice?” I ask.

“No, not really,” Bass says, shrugging his shoulders. “Your dad runs Spy School, which makes you a huge target for everybody who hates our organization. You have to learn how to protect yourself. Whether you want to or not, you have to be the best.”

“Or what?”

“You get kidnapped. Or die,” he says, not softening it for me at all.

That’s the thing about Sebastian—he’s always blunt. He tells the truth without holding back. And he follows orders. That is probably why my dad trusts him so much.

“I thought you wanted to learn all this,” Bass says. “You seemed pretty excited about it up until today.”

“I did—do—want to learn,” I say.

“What’s wrong?”

“I just... what if everybody is wrong about me? What if I can’t learn how to do all this? What if I really am just a weak, little girl?” I ask. “Maybe they found the wrong girl. What if I’m not even Serenity Sinclair?”

“Trust me, you are Serenity Sinclair,” Sebastian says. “And you’re not weak. You’re actually the strongest person I know. Everything you went through and endured before coming to Spy School proves that. Just because you’re not strong physically right now doesn’t mean anything.”

His words almost make me smile.

Almost.

“If you really want this, then you’ve got to believe in yourself,” he says.

Believe in myself?

How do I even do that?

“Come on,” Bass says, motioning me to get up. “We’re going back to the house. We can walk. And I’m going to make you a smoothie.”

“A smoothie?” I ask, not getting up yet. I just need a couple of more seconds. My legs feel like noodles.

“You’ve been eating a lot of junk food. Which I get. You've been starved your whole life and everybody wants you to try everything,” Bass says. “But you need healthy food if you’re going to get in shape.”

“Don’t smoothies have, like, ice cream in them?”

“Not the ones I make.”

“It’s Sander’s fault that I eat so unhealthy,” I say.

Bass holds out a hand to help me stand up.

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