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His father had forced it on him as the leader of the Irish, with Connor being his heir apparent. He made sure his son was as brutal as he was. But his father had failed. Connor kept every ounce of goodness. A triumph over the savagery of his upbringing and spitting in the face of his father.
“And how would your mother have you murder, little lamb?”
“Enforcers are proving a point, but they don’t have the insulation your father had. If they were caught, they were done for. She had to let it be known the reason the hit was taken but never who it was. She couldn’t take credit or leave witnesses. So her craft came with a different set of skills, and one of them was blood tells too many tales. I kill from a distance if I can at all help it.”
“And what about the car? No one notices a two-hundred thousand dollar car?”
“I only drive stolen cars when on the job. I leave her in a storage unit. I have dozens all over this side of the coast.” I smiled to myself. I could only tell a spouse or a priest these secrets. How it amused me to be spilling them to a priest.
“I see, and when you have to get close to get the job done?”
“I clean up after myself. Rarely do I end up bloody.” Only when I was in a hurry to see him.
I pulled into a drive and shut the engine off.
“Where are we?” he asked, turning towards me.
“I bought it.” Ten minutes from his parish, tucked against the shore, wilderness, land, leaves, and a river. It had cost a good portion of my savings, but what else would I spend twenty years of paychecks I’d deposited into my account on?
My expenses were bare.
“You jest?” He pushed open the door tentatively, venturing onto the front walk to get a look at her. The front wrap-around porch hugging a lovely old Victorian prize.
“No. She’s mine. I’ll be here more than there.” I meant D.C.
He smiled, and our world was finally right.
ABOUT J.R. GRAY
Gray is a cynical Chicago native, who drinks coffee all day, barely sleeps, and is a little too fashion obsessed. He writes romance sprinkled with kink, and hot as hell, dark and angsty characters because everyone deserves a happily ever after.
J.R. Gray is Gender Queer and prefers He/Him/His pronouns.
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