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“Did you know who her father was?”
“No.” I shook my head. “Pretty annoyed that I missed that too, to be honest.” When she stared at her feet for a good couple of minutes, I reached out and grabbed her hand. “What is it, Ma? Does it matter who Aoife’s father is?”
Her smile was tight. “No. Of course not! It’s just… well, it’s big news, isn’t it?”
I snorted. “You going to go to theNational Enquirernow?”
“Don’t be ridiculous,” was her waspish retort.
“Well then.” I hitched a shoulder. “I don’t see that it matters.” It mattered if we needed to blackmail the president, but that wasn’t for her to know.
“No, I don’t suppose it does.”
Her faint words had me asking, “Ma? What is it? Why are you here?”
“Declan said you needed help with the ceremony,” was her faint reply.
“Oh.” I straightened up, relieved that was why she was here and not the other elephant in the room. “Sure. Yeah. You’re here to help?”
“If I can,” she rasped.
Doubly relieved by the reprieve, I beamed a smile at her. “Great. Just forget about that, huh? It doesn’t matter in the grand scheme of things, does it?”
“No, son, it doesn’t.” She shot me a fake smile that was somehow worse than what she’d greeted me with at the front door. “Now, what can I do to get that brother of yours married off?”
