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My smirk fell.
“Goddammit, Jess,” Jentry bit out. “Why won’t you let me help you?”
“Because you can’t,” she hissed then turned and stormed off in the direction of Holloway.
“Man, I think that was a record for how long I’ve gone without seeing her. It was a nice break.” Declan rubbed at his jaw, a laugh bursting free when he looked at me. “I feel sorry for you, dude. Looks like you just realized you were about to take a hooker home.”
I narrowed my glare on Jentry. “You’re her brother?”
He held up his hands then let them fall, like that explained everything about being related to Jessica.
“You’re a cop?” I asked, trying not to
sneer the word.
“Got a problem?” he asked darkly.
“None.” I started to leave but stopped. “Want to help your sister? Stop expecting her to be who you think she is.”
Declan laughed. “And you’ve known her, what, five minutes? Ten? Good talk, man. Make sure to wrap it up before you go near that psycho.”
Jentry shot his friend a look but shook his head instead of speaking up. His expression said enough. He was done defending her.
Sliding my glare back to Declan, I let my mouth slip into a menacing smirk. “I’ll remember you.”
With that, I turned and walked back to Holloway.
“Did you enjoy the family reunion?”
Jessica’s voice met me as soon as I stepped into my room. The taunt was there in her words, but it was faint.
Despite what happened in the bar, I hadn’t expected her to be here.
She’d already disappeared into the night by the time I started back home, but there she was. Sitting on my bed, in one of my shirts.
I gave her a hard look. “Who’s the other guy?”
“Declan. Jentry’s best friend. Adopted brother. Annoying person. Take your pick.”
Wanting nothing more than to get the smell of the bar off me, I stripped out of my shirt and went to the dresser to grab a new one. Without looking back at Jessica, I asked, “To you?”
“What?”
“Declan,” I murmured, curling my hands into fists when I remembered his words about her. “Who is he to you?”
“He was a way to get information.”
I gnashed my teeth in anger. “Information. I actually fucking believed you when you told me why you’d been following Beck. Why you’d been watching us. And then I find out your brother’s a cop.”
I looked in time to see her face fall in horror. “That’s not my fault.”
“It’s convenient.”
“It’s also recent. And how the hell is that convenient? Do you know how many times he’s been the one to roll up on me or arrest me lately? Do you know how humiliating that is even though he’s known about my profession for years?”
I turned and leaned against the dresser. “All I know is you’ve been studying us and Mickey has a spy. Your brother is law enforcement, and he wants to help you.”
“Kieran, no.”
