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“Conor, do you want me to call you when lunch is ready?” Aoife asked, not realizing her husband was whisper-bitching at me. “I made your favorite.”
That had me shooting her a loved-up look. The quick movement of my head whipping around had the blood rushing to it as I garbled, “Roasted duck with orange sauce?”
“Yep.”
“Consider yourself lucky that someone already smacked your head around or I’d do it for staring at her like that.”
Snorting, I leaned more heavily on him as I muttered, “I think I need to crash. Can I eat the leftovers?”
“Of course,” she reassured me, but her tone was worried. “I’ll set aside a plate for you.”
When Finn dumped me on the bed, I half-expected him to go with her, but the pair of them whispered at each other like I was five before she left and he returned to my side.
He dropped down to the other half of the bed, kicked up his heels as he settled back against a pillow, then demanded, “Come on then, talk. Who is it? That Star chick?”
That was when I knew I’d entered a parallel universe.
I started sputtering, but all I could get out was, “You think I have woman troubles?”
“Don’t you?”
“No, for fuck’s sake.”
“I thought she went missing.”
“She did.”
“Isn’t that woman troubles?”
“She didn’t run out on me.”
That was neither the whole truth nor a lie.
Savannah had told me that she thought the only reason Star would pull away from me was because she’d gotten herself embroiled in Da’s death.
That wasn’t the same as running out though. At least not in my opinion. And, admittedly, I did tend to cut the witch a lot of slack.
“What’s the problem then?”
I flopped onto my back and immediately regretted it when my head pounded.Jesus, did I have a concussion?That fucking Temperance.
“If I told you,” I clipped, “you wouldn’t believe me.”
Finn chuckled. “Conor, you’re you. I’d believe you just because the shit that happens to you happens to no one else on the planet.”
“That’s… fair,” I admitted with a yawn.
“You should get some sleep,” he said irritably. “We can talk later. If the house is empty when you wake up, it’s because we’ve gone out.”
I rubbed my eyes again. “Funnily enough, Finn, I think I’d have managed to deduce that by myself.”
“Sarcastic ass.”
“You know it.”
He made to stand, but as his weight dispersed, shifting the mattress, Finn paused. “I heard you mention the United Brotherhood to Aoife.”
My eyes popped open. “You overheard that?”
