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To unleash me on.
“To the house full of traitors, you mean?” He sat on his desk, crossing his arms over his chest as he did. “There’s something I can’t figure out, Kieran. Something I kept turning over in my head day and night while they held me in that cell. How did Demitri Borello know all he did? Sure, he has that hacker bitch. But the amount of information—the details he had . . . I only entrusted a select few with that information. And somehow it ended up in my enemy’s hands.”
“Bailey and Finn wanted our positions. That wasn’t a secret. I took care of them a few months ago.”
He barked out a laugh, but it turned mocking as he slanted me a glare. “You and I both know those pieces of shit weren’t smart enough to figure out what the Borellos knew.”
I didn’t move, but I wasn’t so still he would notice a difference in my stance.
I was calm.
I was unmoved by his comments.
I had to be.
Demitri Borello—Dare, as those of us closest to him knew him by—had been the leader of the Borello gang before he’d dissolved it. His family had been Holloway’s greatest rivals for generations. He’d been my enemy until we’d called a truce to take down the man in front of me . . . and then he betrayed me at the last hour.
And while I had no doubt Dare’s crew could’ve found out most, if not all, of what Mickey had been doing and planning, they’d found it out with help from a few of us within Holloway.
Mickey’s son, Aric, before he was killed. My closest friend, Beck. And me.
“I’ve heard nothing.” I lifted my shoulder in a relaxed shrug. “The men went back to business as usual. The only whispers going around the property are questions of when and if you’re coming back since Tommy skipped out a few weeks ago. Nice choice in an advisor.”
He nodded slowly and grabbed a small stack of papers off the desk beside him as his mouth curled into a smile. “Well, they can’t all be as good as your old man.” He sifted through the first few papers, his eyes lingering on the next as he murmured, “No whispers about you taking over?”
My brow pinched at his tone. It was too curious. Too casual.
Not at all like the loud, demanding, confident man I knew he was. In everything.
“None. They know I don’t want it.”
“Or they don’t think you deserve it,” he said flatly. “You and my daughter were supposed to be a package deal. The two of you were supposed to take over Holloway together. And you couldn’t keep her happy and by your side. Shit, you couldn’t even keep her in Holloway. She ran from you into the enemy’s arms.”
My jaw clenched, but my outward expression was blank.
“You had one job, Kieran.”
I had one mission.
“Keep Lily safe.”
Keep Lily safe. Love Lily.
“And you fucking failed.”
And I failed.
“Why should any of us trust you after that?”
I forced myself to breathe.
Tried to force her face from my mind, but it felt impossible. She was all I could see.
The hollowness in my chest was all I felt.
“You think I don’t love you?” I asked, confused and staggered at what was happening between me and the girl I’d spent a lifetime loving.
“I know you do, but I think you’ve forgotten how.”
