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I didn’t wait for him to cut the call; I did it for him. A second later, I received a phone number via message.
For a second, I stared blankly at a train set that Jen, my best friend and tonight’s guest at dinner, had bought Jake. It was expensive enough that I knew she must have done without Starbucks for a while, and gratitude filled me for her.
It filled me for Finn, and the O’Donnellys, and the family I’d made thanks to our marriage. Family that didn’t sell me out so they could sit in the Oval Office.
“What’s wrong, my love?” Finn’s voice was soft, but I heard the tension in it. I knew him too well, as much as he knew me.
“That was my father.” I peered at him over my shoulder. “He says the Sparrows are threatening his family.”
Finn arched a brow. “He called to tell you that?”
I nodded. “Must be dire, right?”
He stepped over to me, sank onto the seat by my side, and curled an arm around my shoulders. “I’ll fix things.”
“If the President of the United States can’t fix things, then I’m not sure you can.”
Finn brushed his lips against my temple. “Oh, honey, don’t you know the Five Points have more power than him?”
I snorted. “Your head gets any bigger, it’ll explode.”
He squeezed me as he chuckled. “His hands are tied. He has the biggest army in the world but he can’t deploy them without Congress and Senate’s approval. He can’t do dick without bipartisan support.
“You think Aidan Sr. waits on things like that?”
I had to admit, “No.”
“Well, then. You don’t have to worry. I’ll fix this.”
Looking up at him, I saw the fierce resolve etched into his expression and reached up to press a kiss to his lips.
“Got news about Mary Catherine by the way.”
“Oh, good!” Relief filled me. “I know Lena was worried.”
“And that bitch mom of hers.” He shuddered. “She went down to Ohio.”
“Why?” I blinked. “That’s a random state to go to.”
“There’s a sister chapter of the MC her man’s loyal to.”
“So, she’s safe?”
He hummed. “She is.” His mouth found mine again, and after he left me breathless, he whispered, “Does Jen have to come for dinner?”
I smiled at his complaint, then smiled wider when his tongue traced the curve of my mouth, tasting my amusement.
“She does. She’s…”
I thought about the conversation we’d had earlier. A conversation where she’d told me that Aidan Jr.’s woman, Savannah, had forced a meeting between them years earlier so that she could snatch a DNA sample…
If that wasn’t crazy enough, the DNA test Savannah had arranged proved that Jen, my girl from the block, a 57 varieties’ kind of chick, was actually an O’Donnelly.
Padraig O’Donnelly’s daughter, to be precise.
I’d promised I wouldn’t say anything to Finn, that I’d keep my mouth shut, so I merely told him, “She really needs the company today.”
Though he sighed, he kissed me again and asked, “Want me to call in Martha to set up the spare room?”
While he didn’t like her, and put up with her for me, gratitude swelled inside me at his offer to let her spend the night.
“I’m a lucky woman,” I told him huskily as I reached for his hand.
He raised the tangle of our fingers to his lips and brushed them over my knuckles. “Oh, sweetheart, I’m the lucky one, not you.”
