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Jealousy sliced through me, knowing he was with her while she slept, but was quickly replaced with gratitude.
Because once again, I hadn’t been here.
And Beck had.
I dipped my head in a silent thank you then looked at Jessica. “Nothing’s worth that pain. But we found him. He’s gone.”
At her stuttered exhale, I turned to lead her away, but she held her ground. “The plan was to take Mickey out here. He’ll come back. And I’m not leaving my mom in that room.”
“And if he finds out Kieran took out the ghost first?” Beck asked. “He might run and we’ll lose our chance . . . again.”
“Or he’ll come at us with everything he has left,” I mumbled, holding Jessica slightly in front of me so I could study her dazed expression.
Mickey needed to die. For so many reasons.
Finn had been right in the minutes before I killed him . . . Mickey was finished. Only Mickey refused to accept it. He would take out the entire world if it meant there was no one left to threaten his position as Holloway’s Boss.
Nothing made that clearer than when he had Tommy killed.
He’d been Mickey’s best friend and advisor since my dad died. He’d been loyal to a fault—Mickey’s advisors always were.
The only people he kept closer were his underbosses: Aric and me. The ones who’d built an entire rebellion within Holloway against Mickey while he’d been preparing us to take over.
Maybe Mickey had somehow always known there was a possibility of what we’d become. Maybe he’d seen too much of himself in Aric and me. Maybe that’s why he’d kept us close, wanting that defiant spirit to continue leading Holloway after he was dead.
It was true: keep your enemies closer.
But I’d never wanted his position.
I wanted to be done with the mob I’d been born into. With all of it.
I couldn’t do that if Mickey still walked this earth.
He was sick and demented. He could manipulate anyone to do his will. And he had his hand in everything, including the government.
It was why Aric and I had first set out to destroy Holloway and Mickey’s empire. It was why I’d enlisted Dare to help. It was why we, along with Beck, had agreed Mickey needed to go down with both.
“I know how to make sure he comes here,” Jessica whispered.
I focused on her wrecked face, my jaw tightening at the possibilities of what she’d say next.
Her vacant eyes slid to mine. “We need Conor.”
“No,” Beck said immediately. “No. Fuck no.”
Kieran didn’t say anything. He only continued to watch me with that same careful expression. Like he was worried about what I might do.
A part of me was too.
There was a part of me that was begging to push at Kieran until he snapped. Taunt him until he lost control.
Make it go away.
But even as those thoughts and needs crept through me, I knew Kieran wouldn’t . . . knew he’d find a way to keep me safe from my own mind while keeping me alive.
Find Jentry.
Find Jentry. Make it go away.
