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Her hand tapped the table beside mine. “Nice ring.”
I hummed as she studied it.
“You said yes?”
“I agreed to wear the ring.”
She tipped her head to the side. “Interesting.”
“I don’t think Conor and I will ever do anything the normal way.”
“Probably for the best in this family.” She straightened up as she finished her coffee. “He survived the night.”
“Dagda?”
“Yes.”
“Are you glad about that?”
“I suppose. Not much point being glad about it if you’re going to kill him.”
I studied her. “I think you know more than you let on, Aoife.”
“The men aren’t as quiet as they think they are.” She sniffed. “Well? Are you going to kill him?”
“He murdered my mom,” I reasoned. “But my mom wasn’t as squeaky clean as I thought she was so I’m of two minds about the whole thing.”
Her throat bobbed. “I don’t have any family left, Star. Not on my mom's side. And the… What I did have was stolen from me.”
“I know,” I rasped, my gaze meeting hers. “I’m sorry about that.”
“Not your fault and I’ve made peace with what happened because I love my husband and I understand how this family works. They protect their women. No matter what the women do.
“If I killed Lena, Finn would go to war to make sure I never saw the inside of a jail cell. He’d lose his brothers too because he’d stand by me.” She sucked in a breath. “I find comfort in that.”
“In knowing you could destroy his whole universe and he’d still stand by your side?”
Slowly, she nodded. “Yes. Not very healthy, but we each find our own coping mechanisms, don’t we?”
“We do,” I agreed, sharing a measured glance with her. Knowing and accepting that we’d both gone through hell. “Are you asking me not to kill Dagda?”
“I think so. I don’t know the man. Maybe he deserves to die? Maybe I’d be better off not knowing him, but…”
“Just in case, hmm?”
“Yes, just in case.”
I studied her as I pondered the situation.
Eventually, I queried, “You’ll tell me if he treats you poorly?”
The hope in her eyes was painful to behold. “Yes.”
“From one sister-in-law to another, I won’t target him. I tried to help him yesterday,” I remarked. “The only reason Conor knew he was under attack was because I got him to call Keegan. So, when I said I was of two minds about the situation, I meant it. His actions don’t correlate with what I know of him, and my mom wasn’t who I thought she was.
“I have to assume that the O’Donnellys have allowed him to live even though he did what he did to their father for a reason.”
“They wanted him to form an alliance with them. Eamonn was the head of the ECD.”
