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“You don’t think it was planted up there by anyone then?” he frowns at me.
“I think we’d know if someone had been on our roof terrace, Shane. But, even so, it looks like it was just one of those things. Unsurprisingly, it freaked our girl out though.”
“Yeah,” he nods as he rubs a hand over his jaw. “But not knowing who the Wolf is makes me nervous, Con. He could be anyone.”
“It makes me nervous too, bro. But I don’t know what else we do to find him?”
Shane sits at his desk and opens up his laptop. “Did I tell you I had a call from good old uncle Paul while you were in Arizona?”
“Pol?” I frown at him. “Fuck, Shane. We haven’t heard from him for over twenty years. Why didn’t you tell me?”
“With everything else that’s been going on, it slipped my mind, Con.”
“How did he get in touch with you? Where the hell has he been?”
“It was my business number. No idea where he’s been. But he said he’d heard a rumor the Wolf had surfaced in Russia. I pressed him for more, but he warned me to back off.”
“You think he knows who the Wolf is?”
“Nobody knows who he is, Con. No one except Jessie, anyway. But maybe Pol has some information that could give us a lead, at least?”
“You know how to get in touch with him?”
Shane shakes his head. “Nope. As elusive as ever. But he said he’d be at the funeral when that evil fucker finally dies. I’ll ply the old bastard with a few whiskies and find out whatever he knows.”
“If he knows anything at all. It seems like the Wolf is a ghost, Shane. He could be dead for all we know.”
“I know, Con. But I don’t think Jessie will ever feel safe unless she knows one way or the other. Do you?”
“No,” I agree with him.
“Why don’t you go check on them and get some sleep? You look exhausted.”
“Yeah. I will. Catch you later, bro.”
“Later,” he winks at me and I leave his office and go to find Jessie and the twins.
I find them in Liam’s bed, watching TV. “You guys okay?” I ask as I sit on the edge of the bed.
“Yeah, bro,” the twins mumble.
“Yes,” Jessie smiles sweetly and holds her arms out to me. Unable to resist an invitation to be anywhere near her hot body, I crawl onto the bed and she spreads her legs wide so I can lie between them, with my head resting on her stomach. She runs her fingers through my hair and the four of us lie there in silence and I feel so comfortable and content that I fall asleep.
Chapter
Thirty-Five
CONOR
Ipull Jessie onto my lap as Mikey places two bowls of popcorn on the coffee table in front of us before sitting beside us on the sofa. A few seconds later, Liam sits beside him and Jessie stretches her legs out across Mikey’s until her toes are almost touching Liam’s thigh, and he bends his head and kisses them softly, making her squirm and giggle The sound of her laughing is so fucking good to hear.
Mikey and Liam smile at her and she leans against my chest, her cheeks flushed pink. She looks up as Shane walks into the room and I wait for the change in her, for the tension to slip into her body, but it doesn’t. She stays relaxed, even as he reaches us and stands there with a frown on his face.
“No room for me then?” he asks with an arch of one eyebrow.
“You snooze, you lose, bro,” Liam laughs and Mikey grins up at him.
Shane, my grumpy big brother, who never takes a night off work to watch a movie with us, simply rolls his eyes before leaning down and kissing Jessie softly before taking a seat on the nearby armchair. It has been a week since he got back from his business trip and things finally seem back to normal around here. In fact, I have never seen my brothers happier.
