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And this was Senior’s next phase in weeding out Sparrows from the Points.
Rage filled me as I grabbed my phone and sent Conor a message:
Me:What the fuck do you think you’re doing bugging my woman?
Kid:Now, now, Finn. Be rational.
Me:Did you just tell me to calm down?
Kid:I didn’t. I told you to be rational. There’s a big difference.
Me:Tell that to my fucking temper.
I shot Aoife and Inessa a look, then did something I rarely did: called Conor and spoke with him in Korean.
“The hell kind of game are you playing?”
“What’s wrong?”
“What’s wrong?” I repeated, snarling the words at him, well aware that Aoife was watching me, Eoghan and Inessa too. “How fucking dare you?” My temper burst into a thousand shards when a realization came to me. “Are all our phones bugged?”
“Of course,” Conor replied, sounding confused.
“Of course?” I felt like my brain was about to burst out of my skull.
Of fucking course?
And he was the one who sounded confused?
“Are you just going to keep repeating my replies? That’s going to get boring. Why are we talking in Korean anyway?”
“Because my wife is sitting right in front of me.”
“Gotcha. No names.” He hummed. “Not sure why this is coming as much of a shock to you. Let’s face it, you need your phones bugged with a paranoid guy like Da around.”
I frowned. “Is this a new thing?”
“Yep. A belated Christmas gift,” was his cheerful retort. “Trust me, I don’t want to listen to your boring conversations any more than you want me to hear them.”
An ache blossomed into being in my temples. “If that’s supposed to be reassuring, it isn’t.”
I could hear the shrug in his voice. “I wouldn’t worry about it. It’s a precaution.”
“What kind of precaution?”
“I’m not sure. Da just asked me to hook your phones up when I upgraded the security software. I figure it’s a failsafe. A way of checking the people around you too.”
“Not because he doesn’t trust us or our wives?” I demanded.
“Nah. Prevention is better than the cure.”
I thought about what he’d said. “When I asked if all our phones were bugged, you said of course.”
“I did.”
“Do you mean just the family circle, or…?”
“Or the whole Five Points?” he prompted.
