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After a good couple minutes, where I felt the passage of each second like it was a year, Aidan grated out, “You’re not joking, are you?”
“No.”
“Okay. I have questions.” He growled under his breath. “For later. Fucker.”
“I’ll answer them. Later.” I rubbed my eyes. “Michael’s ECD.”
Aidan was silent a second. “You’re really ramming these secrets home today, aren’t you?”
“Sure am.”
“You sure he’s not one of those IRA assholes?”
“The ECD make the IRA look like teddy bears.”
More silence as he processed a goddamncheilehad been guarding his mother for years.
“I’ll kill him before the cancer does.”
I got it. I totally fucking did.
Feeling ancient, I hunched my shoulders and muttered, “You don’t need to worry about that. Conor’s on the case, remember? The difficult part is keeping him alive.
“I can’t believe I’m about to say this, but Aoife and her mother were targeted for their ties to Alan Davidson.” I hesitated over the next part because I didn’t have it in me to talk about Lena killing Michelle to anyone other than Aoife today, so I just said, “Michelle was killed for it.”
“Jesus Christ, Finn, you know you sound like you’re a conspiracy theorist, don’t you?”
“Not my theory. Just what I’ve been told. Davidson confirmed it, Aidan. Look, that isn’t what this is about.” I sighed. “I just spoke with Davidson.”
“Got him on speed dial, do you?”
“Would if speed dial still existed.”
Aidan sniffed.
“He says his family owed the Five Points a president.” Aidan’s lack of response wasn’t reassuring. “You know anything about it?”
Considering Senior had been grooming him for the throne, I was praying he knew something.
“No.” I heard the sound of his fingers drumming. “You believe him?”
Jesus.
If Junior didn’t know, then this was much worse than I could have anticipated.
“Why would he lie?” I rumbled.
“I don’t know. You’re right. It’s not exactly something you lie about, is it? Not if you’re a president.” He hummed. “Why didn’t you ask Da yourself? After Christmas, he’d probably be willing to answer.”
“I didn’t want to talk to him.”
“Why not?”
I pursed my lips. “I just didn’t want to deal with him today.”
“Can’t blame you. Ineverwant to fucking deal with him,” Aidan grumbled. “But he’s the one who’ll have answers. Not me.”
“Hoped you’d know something I didn’t.”
