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His jaw clenches. “Neve—”
“Iwas the enemy once, in case you’ve forgotten?”
“That was…different,” he mutters.
Neve rolls her eyes. “Exactlyhowwas that different? Please explain it to me. Ares and I got married because your uncle and my father shot each other, and everyone thought we were heading into world war three in the streets. Yes. You’re right, Hades. Her father almost killed Ares and me. Herfather,” she snaps. “Not her.”
Neve turns to look at Una, who’s still sitting looking numb and cold on the couch.
“If I ofallpeople can let that go, you damn well can, too,” Neve mutters at Hades.
“Eínai sto parelthón aderfé,” Ares growls quietly.
My Greek’s pretty limited, but I know that’s at least partially “it’s in the past, brother.”
“Let it the fuckgo, man,” Ares adds with a glare at his younger brother. He glances at Una, shaking his head and taking a deep breath. “She isn’t the enemy here. Whoever sent that bomb is.” He glares at both Hades and me. “So how about we stop trying to kill each other and figure out how to find this motherfucker?”
I pin Hades with a stare. He does the same to me. Finally, he exhales and sticks out a hand.
“I’m sorry.”
“Apology accepted.”
We shake, and he smirks. “You were really about to cut me, weren’t you?”
The look on my face and tilt of my head answers his question without words.
Hades chuckles quietly as he pulls close and awkwardly gives me a hug.
“If you were about to slice my goddamn throat over her,” he mutters in my ear, “then I’m fucking sold.” He pulls back. “Same team?”
I nod. “Same team.”
“Besides,” Callie says. “We don’t even know if that thing was meant for Neve or—”
Her mouth snaps shut as she realizes she was about to voice out loud what we’re all thinking.
Too late.
My face darkens as I watch Una’s pale even more.
“Nice one, Callie,” Kratos mutters as his sister winces.
I look over at Castle, who nods at me. “I’ve already got some of our guys looking into it. There’s not a lot of people in this city who could wire up something that precise. We’ll find them.”
“Precise?” Ares growls. “It was a bomb rigged to blow up in Una and my wife’sfaces.”
Castle shakes his head. “Which it did, but as bombs go, that wasn’t built for damage or death.”
Ares looks like he’s about to go thermonuclear, until Neve puts a hand on his chest and kisses his cheek.
“I know tempers are hot right now,” Castle growls. “But believe me, I know explosives. I trained on them in the Rangers. Andthatwasn’t a kill or maiming IED. Small blast, nothing evil stuffed in it like metal shavings or ball bearings to cause significant damage.”
Callie shudders next to him.
Castle shakes his head. “I know it was scary, but that was the whole point.” He turns to level his gaze at me. “That wasn’t meant to kill, Cillian. That was meant to send a message.”
Which I think we all got loud and fucking clear. The only problem is, dead mendon’t send messages like that.
