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“Da didn’t give a fuck about education until he realized that I had unusual smarts.” Her eyes gleamed at my use of the word ‘unusual.’ Proof I was awkward. Damn, I’d walked myself into that one. “He put us in the best schools because that was what was expected of a man in his position. Plus, the law wouldn’t have liked his kids not being educated.”
“Finn’s smart too.”
“He is. Da didn’t realize it until later. Hired tutors for his final years before graduation and after.” I folded my arms against my chest. “What are you going to do about Kat and her aunt?”
“What do you want me to do? Get her to come over for a pool party?”
“No. But you can’t keep this from her. You need to take her to a shrink like you said you were going to. I know you tried to handle this on your own, but I don’t think you can if her father was hurting her and she remembers that.”
“I’ve been researching therapists too,” she sniped. “You think I’d just google ‘kid shrink?’”
I hit send on an email I’d been waiting to share with her. “Best child psychiatrists in the tristate area just dropped in your inbox.”
She stared down at the list and scowled. “Why ask if you’d already made a list? And why make a list? You knew I was on it.”
“You’re not the only control freak in the house. You think I was going to let Kat near anyone unless they’d been thoroughly vetted by both of us? This way, you can screen the list too and pick the best of the best.”
Her brows lifted. “Vetted how?”
“FBI. Cross-referenced with the NSA’s database.”
“I had started looking, Conor. I don’t want you to think I hadn’t.”
“I never thought that. But I know you’re wary and that always slows things down.”
She didn’t deny being wary. “The NSA… You asked your handler? Or did you snoop?”
“I asked Riggs."
"Thought you didn't trust her anymore after Nimue."
I sniffed. "I don’t, but you said it yourself. She was doing her job.
"Anyway, I asked her because I liked traveling outside of the continental US and didn’t want to piss her off.”
“Thought Anton had dealt with that for you?”
“He has. But if I piss her off then she’ll find a way to rescind my passport and travel permission.”
“If I hadn’t already sucked you off this morning, I’d do it now.”
I flashed a grin at her. “For future reference, there’s no wait time on another round. But, I have a gift for you.”
“Another one? Better than this?”
I hummed. “Want to come to a Summit?” When her eyes widened, I knew I was in for a blow job later. “Yeah, I’m not teasing.”
“A Summit? Why would they let me come? Brennan barely lets me into Finn’s man cave without giving me sass.” When I chuckled at the idea of my bruiser of a brother ‘sassing’ my woman, she winked at me. “You can tell him I said that too.”
“Oh, I will. Don’t worry. And yeah, the Summit. Mostly because we need to share that Dragon Head Zhao, Custanzu Valentini, and Maxim Lyanov are persons of interest to the NSA.”
“Didn’t they know that already?”
“Yeah, I mean, they are who they are,” I drawled. “It’s not like it comes without a warning from the Justice Department. But there’s a difference between being a regular person of interest and then being targeted by my ‘radical’ bugs.”
“Who called them radical?”
“Me.”
