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Dare relaxed into the couch and Lily immediately fell into his side, her eyes now locked on where my fingers were laced with Kieran’s. “Like I said, we’ve seen all over the news about Holloway and Mickey’s business. So, you either sent in your shit to take him down, or you finished him first.”
“The latter,” Kieran replied.
Lily’s head snapped up at that. The relief that burst from her was so great, I wanted to revel in it for a moment before Kieran destroyed it.
“Really?” she asked. “He’s really gone?”
Kieran dipped his head in confirmation. “Conor,” he said quickly when Lily started to thank him. “It was Conor.”
She looked surprised, but no less relieved as she rubbed a hand over her belly.
“Lily . . .”
Her ice-blue eyes lifted to Kieran, her face falling at his tone. “What?”
“Beck . . . Beck’s gone.”
Dare cursed and dragged a hand over his face, then hurried to grab Lily when her arms shot out, like she was going to faint.
A strangled sob ripped from Lily, heavy tears immediately falling down her cheeks.
We said nothing. We didn’t cry.
I didn’t think I could after how many tears I’d shed in the last few days.
We stood there for a few minutes, waiting in silence as Lily tried to accept this reality.
“We buried him next to Aric,” Kieran finally said. “It was just us and Conor. There wasn’t a ceremony with everything that’s going on with Holloway.”
Dare nodded in understanding when Lily didn’t respond.
When we turned to go, Lily spoke in a numb voice. “We just found out a couple days ago we’re having a boy. I was trying to figure out how to tell him the next time he came to see me because he’s always so mad about what happened.”
“He loved you, Lily,” Kieran said.
“Think Beck sounds like a good name,” Dare said softly, then looked to Kieran for his reaction.
“Beckham.” Kieran cleared his throat. “His real name was Beckham.”
Dare nodded. “Beckham Borello.”
When Lily’s shoulders hunched and another sob fell from her lips, Kieran tucked me close to his side. “Lily meant the world to him. He would’ve liked that.”
Without another word, Kieran led me from the house.
I laid my head heavily on his chest as we walked to the car and let him pull me into his arms when we reached the sidewalk.
“Do you want to go tell your brother about your mom?”
My head rolled slowly along his chest. “Not today. I’m not ready. She wasn’t a mom to him anyway.”
Pressing his mouth to my head, he whispered, “I’m here when you are.”
“Promise?”
He leaned back and waited for me to look up at him. “Always, Chaos.”
Six Months Later
