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“I wanted to know everything.”
Aidan frowned. “You mean that literally, don’t you?”
I hitched a shoulder. “I don’t like closed doors." People whispered behind them. "I wanted to open as many as I could and I have. To this day, I work on the same tasks. Nothing’s changed. I don’t think it will with Shay, either. Politics is as much of a vocation as being a doctor is.”
“Less of a God complex with a politician than a doctor though,” Aidan drawled.
Finn grunted. “True that.”
“We’ll talk with Shay on Saturday, Conor, and once we learn if he’s ready for what we’ve got planned, then I’ll talk to Kuznetsov.”
“He’s in the city until next week,” I confirmed. “Star’s with him now.”
“Is that why she isn’t here?” Finn queried.
My lips twitched. “Probably.”
“She shouldn’t be here anyway,” Brennan grouched.
“Star’s not like the other women,” Finn remarked. “Her insight would—”
“Come at too high a price,” Brennan snapped. “We can’t trust her yet.”
I slapped my hand against the table. “Yes, we fucking can. What’s she got to do to prove herself to you, Brennan?”
“She’s not an O’Donnelly.”
“That’s all it takes? A wedding ring?”
“It’d help if the Feds wanted her to testify against you,” he retorted.
My brow furrowed. “This is about her ratting us out?”
“Conor undoubtedly has as much shit on her as she has on him, Brennan,” was Eoghan’s lazy retort. There was definitely whiskey in his coffee mug because his words were starting to slur. “If she betrays him, I figure he can take care of himself.”
“She wouldn’t betray me. We’re in this for the long haul.” I stabbed a finger in the air at him. “I get that you’re mourning and that you’re so emotionally repressed because Da was a shit father that you can’t cope with your grief, but don’t take any of this out on Star.
“You want Cammie. I want Star. You married Cammie. I put a ring on Star’s finger and we will decide when we’re ready to marry. It’ll have nothing to do with pressure from the Feds and most certainly not from you! Understood?”
“Understood, but I don’t want her at these meetings. Whether you like it or not, my concerns are valid.”
I got to my feet. “Star is the one who’s helped me work out a solid plan to bring the Saturns around—”
“Star likes soccer?”
I barely flicked a glance at Aidan. “She spent a few years in London. Says she got hooked on it then. Whatever, she’s as invested in this as I am. If she has something to bring to the table, then I’m not going to pay her back for her help by telling her she can’t come.
“Whatever problems you have with her, Brennan, you need to get over them fast. Because if she isn’t welcome here, then I’m not welcome here.”
My words sent a shockwave around the table, but I strode off and allowed them to settle like nuclear fallout because I meant each and every one of them.
It was time Brennan accepted that.
NEW YORK SATURNS PURCHASED BY ACUIG CORP.
Real-estate mogul Acuig Corp acquires New York Saturns in shock move.
Declan O’Donnelly to be named president of the club.
