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She shot me a disappointed look. “Oh, okay, then.”
As she stepped back and out into the lobby, I didn’t even have to tap the button for the doors to close.
“Thank you, Kid,” I told Conor the second we were ascending.
“My pleasure. Want me to arrange for their system to go online?”
“Please.”
“I tried to do it a few years back, but Aoife wouldn’t let me.”
“Yeah, well, I’m not asking her, and neither are you.”
“Good, good. I’ll be discreet.”
I snorted. “Yeah, I just saw you being discreet. What was that gagging about?”
“Am I the only one gettingSingle White Femalevibes here?”
If I wasn’t pissed, I’d have laughed. “You’re not.”
“She wants to fuck you.”
“I know,” was my grim reply.
“Aoife doesn’t see that?”
“No.”
“She looks like Aoife.”
“Yeah, a watered-down version.”
Like the diet version of anything when full fat always tasted and looked that much better.
“What’s that about?”
“God knows, but Aoife doesn’t see it, and I’m not about to cause a problem for her that isn’t necessary. I see the freak a couple of times a year, and Aoife says she's good at her job.”
We could agree to disagree with that one.
Conor hummed under his breath. “It’s weird.”
“You think I don’t know that?”
“Well, I’m just making sure you do.”
I grunted as the penthouse floor approached. “Ever fucking helpful.”
“Here if you need me, Finn.”
His words had me tensing up. No apologies or commiserations from Conor. Not because he wasn’t polite but because he had his own way of working.
“I know, Kid. I know.” I reached up and rubbed my forehead, wondering why he was the easiest to talk to when he was the craziest. “My whole fucking world feels like it’s collapsing under my feet.”
“It is. For the moment. You’ll find solid ground soon. You and Aoife are too strong to let this tear you apart.”
My throat was too tight to reply, so I just nodded. But as the doors opened, I finally managed to grate out, “I hope you’re right.”
