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Forty
Aidan Jr
“What’s going on with them?”Brennan rasped as Finn jumped out of his chair and took off after his cell buzzed and he read the message.
“I don’t know,” I answered.
I knew it wasn’t a medical emergency because he’d have shouted an explanation, but Eoghan got to his feet and headed toward the same doorway Finn had used to leave the room.
I monitored my youngest brother’s movements, saw him drift over to the windows behind me after a couple seconds, and I let him be my eyes and ears until he finally said, “Aoife left without him.”
My brow puckered. “She just took off?”
“She did,” Eoghan confirmed before he demanded, “Kid? What do you know?”
“Why would Conor know?”
I didn’t mean to sound peeved, but Finn was my best fucking friend. If anyone should know what was going on with him, it wasme.
“Keep your panties on,” Eoghan sniped. “Boy Wonder over there has all our phones bugged.”
“That’s creepy as fuck,” Brennan growled.
Declan snapped, “Since when?”
“Christmas.” Conor frowned, rubbing his eyes tiredly. “I’m not listening in because I get a sick kick out of it. I wastoldto do it, and like a good fucking soldier, Iobeyed.”
Studying him, wondering when the last time he’d slept was, I retorted, “You can’t possibly be listening in on all our conversations.”
“I have a program that scans for keywords.”
“That doesn’t sound like it could go wrong at all,” Brennan mocked.
Yawning, Conor flipped him the bird but agreed, “I have a system. It’s working so far.”
“Because of the Sparrows?” I questioned. “He thinks we can’t be trusted?”
“More that the people around us can’t.”
“His daughters-in-law?” Brennan demanded.
I ignored that to ask, “How did you know about this, Eoghan?”
“I did a sweep of my rooms. Found a bug, then, when I realized the only person who’d come by to visit was Conor—”
“Conor came to visit?” I asked suspiciously.
“Hey! It’s not that fucking weird,” Kid grumbled.
Ignoring him, Eoghan retorted, “Exactly. It was weird. Anyway, his visit prompted me to look deeper, and I found spyware on my phone.”
“And you didn’t think to tell us?” I retorted, incensed.
“No, I didn’t,” Eoghan groused. “What use would there be in you knowing? Conor keeps getting hacked. He had to up his game at some point. I just thought it was him trying to recover lost ground.”
“I take offense at that.”
“So you should. Slow poke.” Eoghan’s mouth quirked up at the corner. “Plus, I thought it’d be funny, you guys finding out on your own, but, apparently, I’m the only one who does security checks like that.”
