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The lack of anger in his voice surprised me. As did his: “You didn’t kill Dagda.”
“No,” I said with a grimace.I’d missed his heart.
Dead To Me had been ribbing me about that ever since.
Well, before I’d gotten my ass imprisoned, that is.
“Youdidget the First Lady though. Via him, of course.”
“I don’t regret it.”
“No, and I think that includes Da’s death too.” His nostrils flared. “You knew I loved him.”
I closed my eyes. Nodded.
“You did it anyway.”
My head fell back against the wall as exhaustion plagued me. “Are you here for vengeance, Conor?”
He studied me. “I’m here because I don’t walk away when I make a commitment. The O’Donnellys might be fucked up, but there’s one thing we do that’s right…”
“What is it?”
“We atone, and you can’t do that if you’re stuck in Dubrovnik.”
Something, a weird emotion, sharp yet soft at the same time, flickered into being inside me. “It’s not that simple—”
“Don’t you think that’s for me to decide?”
My mouth rounded but I didn’t have anything to say—there were no words.
He surged to his feet and held out his hand for me once he was standing. “You can stay in here and rot or you can stop trying to kill the man who’d like to help you. I think you should take option two.”
“I only wanted to kill him once he…” I sighed. “I didn’t target him to kill him.”
“You didn’t?”
I stared at my feet. “No. The others, maybe. Him, no.”
We fell silent.
He cleared his throat. “You were going to seduce him?”
I let my chin drop.
“That’d have been awkward.”
“Just a little,” I croaked.
“Probably a good thing he knew who you were to him, no?”
“Yes.”
“Your list of things to atone for is getting bigger.”
I almost gave myself whiplash when I tipped my head up to look at him. Hopelaceratedme. Tore me to shreds. Ripped me to fucking pieces.
Hope was futile, but he handed it to me on a plate with an arched brow and a, “Sex is a weapon for you, Star.”Star. Not Lodestar. He wasn’t angry. More… sad?God. The guilt burned like hydrochloric acid through the sinews of my heart. “We need to unteach you that lesson.” That same brow furrowed. “This feral vibe you’ve got going on is hot. We may need to unteach me that lesson too.”
