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Brennan grunted. “I’ll start scanning my place every week.”
“Same,” Dec concurred with a glower.
“I don’t always use bugs.” Kid’s sniff was disparaging, as was the eye roll he aimed at no one in particular.
“No, you use spyware too,” I drawled.
“Is that a threat?” Brennan rumbled, his eyes narrowing on Kid.
Deciding to save Conor’s neck from being broken by Brennan, I asked, “He’s trying to weed out more Sparrows, Kid?”
“It’s why I agreed to do it.” Conor shrugged. “But who knows why Da does what he does?”
I heard footsteps down the hall and watched Finn, pale and tense, head back in.
“Everything okay, brother?” I asked him quietly.
“Nothing’s fucking okay,” he snapped, and he stunned me by raising his hands to his head and gripping his hair in his fists. The room throbbed with his wrath before he snarled, “No more secrets. No more. I can’t deal with any fucking more.”
Conor leaped to his feet, and just when Finn looked like he was going to let loose and punch the wall, Kid grabbed his shoulders and rasped, “Finn, I’ll explain. Just leave it to me, okay?” He shook him when he didn’t answer. “We’ll get those out in the open.”
As he shoved his forehead up against Finn’s, I knew I wasn’t the only one watching on, wondering what the fuck was happening.
Finn was supposed to tell me what had gone down with Aoife, but shit had gotten in the way and I’d forgotten. Was this what that was about? Or was Aoife’s miscarriage the problem?
Ashamed of myself for forgetting, my hands tightened around the armrests of the chair I liked to think of as Da’s throne, and I ordered, “Conor, what are you going to explain?”
Finn muttered something under his breath, but then slowly pulled back.
Conor’s hand tightened around his shoulder. “Aoife’s mom died in a hit and run.”
I cast Finn a confused look. “This isn’t news to any of us.”
“Ma was the one driving the car that knocked her over.”
Eoghan spat, “What?”
“No fucking way,” Brennan griped.
“You can’t be serious,” Declan hissed.
“It’s true,” Finn mumbled. “I found out at the same time as I learned Senior was my father.”
“Ma just knocked some lady over and Da covered it up?” Declan hesitantly guessed. “That’s why this is news to all of us?”
Conor’s grip tightened on Finn’s shoulder. “It took some time to unravel shit,” Kid started, “but basically—”
“Basically, Aidan told Lena that he’d had an affair and he had a kid,” Finn ground out. “Because he didn’t want to fuck up our relationship, he never told her who his girlfriend was or who his kid was.”
“Genius move, Da,” I grated out under my breath.
“Jesus Christ, that’d have driven her mad,” Brennan bit off.
“It did,” Conor said. “According to Da, she was off her meds too.”
“Until this week, I just thought it was… I guess a tragic accident,” Finn confessed.
“You’ve known for four years?” Declan asked slowly, measuringly.
