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He smirked at me. “Do I look like an idiot? Of course, I waited. Ma’s been bitching at me to babysit though. She thinks it’ll make me want to start a family.”
“Trust me, you have a kid for longer than four hours, you’ll realize you don’t.” Then, I conceded, “Well, when they’re not yours. Wouldn’t give Jake up for the world. Even if he did shit up my arms a few times.”
“Jesus H. Christ. He shat on your arms?”
“I don’t think he did it on purpose,” I said, chuckling at his expression of horror. “I mean, he didn’t shout, ‘Take aim and fire!’”
“Well, it sounds pretty fucking premeditated to me.”
“Can you aim where you shit if you’re on your back?”
“That’s not one of my kinks, so the fuck if I know.”
“Anyway, point is, kids are awesome when they’re yours.”
Eoghan shrugged. “Inessa’s barely out of high school. Why the fuck would I make her be a mom when she’s still a teenager?”
“Makes you sound like a pervert.”
“Trust me, I fucking feel like it sometimes when she and Victoria go on about K-pop.”
“What’s that?”
“I listen and I still don’t know. Bunch of Korean guys doing coordinated dances as far as I can tell. She wanted to go to Korea for our goddamn honeymoon, but I convinced her to go to Ireland.”
“Why would you do that?”
“Because it’ll rain all the time. Do I look like a dumbass?”
“Why the fuck would you want it to rain? Never heard of Aruba?”
“I don’t want to leave that room for at least half the trip.”
Snickering, I told him, “If you don’t want kids, then go equipped.”
“I’ll have more condoms with me than a goddamn Trojan factory.”
My lips curved but I advised, “Don’t let Lena pressure you into having kids if you’re not ready for them.”
“Don’t worry, I won’t. But I can still babysit if you guys need some time together.”
“To bang?”
“Well, you said it.” He arched a brow. “I actually meant to sleep. Although Aoife doesn’t look as rough as you. Which, considering she's percolating another human being, says a lot about how shitty you look.”
I shot my beautiful wife another glance and murmured, “No. She’s always gorgeous.” If anything, she was more beautiful when she was pregnant.
It was a tragedy that she'd been robbed of the ability to have the large family she wanted.
All because that fucking asshole Callum O'Reilly had sold us out.
They said secrets gnawed at you, but they did more than that. They ate you alive. Ate you from the inside out. And thanks to Callum O’Reilly, I had another one weighing down my soul.
“Why do you sound so fucking sad? Jesus, Finn, what’s going on with you? Don’t make me bring in Aidan to torture it out of you.”
“Not Brennan?”
“Well, we don’t want you dead.”
