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Dominic glances warily at Castle before turning back to me.
“You gonna dig up Seamus’ fucking corpse and tie the knot with him?”
I ignore the sarcasm.
“Would that do it?”
“Cillian—”
“Would. That. Do. It,” I hiss. “Would a marriage between O’Conor and Kildare bury the fucking hatchet?”
Castle’s eyes narrow, staring at me in shock. Dom looks at me like I’m more insane than usual before he clears his throat.
“I mean, necrophilia aside, if an O’Conor married into the Kildare family…” he shrugs. “It might actually work. But if we’re talking hypotheticals like that, I mean, shit, Cillian. Let’s just get a fucking time machine and go back to stop your brother from—”
“We don’t need a time machine.OrSeamus’ corpse.”
I take one last drag of my smoke, drop it, and stomp it into the ground.
I’ve got the key to stopping this uprising tied up in my goddamn basement.
* * *
The second Dominic leaves,Castle whirls on me in the darkness of the backyard.
“You cannot be fucking serious.”
Even though Castle frequently crosses a line with me that most people wouldn’t dare, the look on his face and the fury in his tone is well past any confrontation we’ve ever had before in the ten years I’ve known him.
I don’t really blame him, given that he understands exactly where I’m going with what I just said to Dom.
“Cillian,” he hisses through violently clenched teeth. “Are you out of your goddamn fucking mind?”
Most of the time, yes.
“She’s an O’Conor, Castle.”
“Yeah,thatwould be the reason for the look on my fucking face right now, Cill,” he snaps. “You’ve got Seamus’ goddamn kid locked—”
“She’s not a kid.”
“She’shiskid! That fucking sociopath had children, and you’ve got one of them locked in your fucking house. And now your grand plan is to fuckingmarryher?”
“That is exactly what my grand fucking plan is, yes,” I hiss thinly. “Because that’s how the old wayswork.”
I yank a new cigarette out of my case and light it brusquely, inhaling as the smoke curls around my face.
“You have to tell her.”
Her, as inNeve.
As in my niece, who Una’s father kidnapped and tortured,twice. Who almost lost her husband to that maniac.
“I’ll handle it.”
“Cillian—”
I spin around with a snarl, grabbing Castle’s collar as my eyes go livid.
