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“When are you going?” Liam asks.
“Tomorrow afternoon. There is no rush to get there before then.” Shane replies.
“You taking Alejandro’s plane?” Conor asks.
“Yes,” Shane replies.
“Who is Alejandro?” I ask with a frown.
“A friend of ours,” Conor replies. “You’ll like him.”
“And he has his own plane?”
“He has two,” Shane says as he downs another shot of whisky.
“Wow! So we’re going to Ireland on a private jet?” I ask.
“Yep,” Shane nods.
“It has a bedroom and everything.” Liam turns and grins at me.
“Nice!”
“Family dinner tonight, then?” Mikey says.
“Will you make a huge turkey dinner?” Liam asks. “Like with all the trimmings?”
Mikey walks over and ruffles his twin brother's hair. “With every trimming there is, if that’s what you all want?”
“Like Thanksgiving in July?” I offer.
“Hmm. If we celebrated Thanksgiving,” Liam says.
“You’ve never celebrated Thanksgiving?” I open my mouth in surprise.
“We’re Irish!” Mikey frowns at me.
“But you live in America! How have you avoided like the second biggest holiday?”
“We’re usually working,” Conor shrugs.
Mikey sits on the arm of the sofa next to Liam. “Thanksgiving in July it is then. You going to help me out, Jessie?”
“Yes,” I smile. I love to cook and Mikey has been teaching me so many new dishes. It will be nice to teach him a few traditional American ones.
“It’s a date then. Dinner at eight before Shane and Jessie go to Ireland to spit on Patrick Ryan’s grave,” Mikey declares.
Chapter
Forty-One
CONOR
As I watch Mikey, Shane and Jessie carrying the steaming trays of food into the dining room, I can’t help smiling. Jessie has a huge grin on her face as she places the mashed potatoes and string beans on the table, and Mikey and Shane bicker good-naturedly over who is going to carve the turkey.
In the ten years we’ve been in the States, we’ve never celebrated Thanksgiving – not in the traditional sense anyway. It’s not a thing in Ireland so it’s not a part of our family history or tradition. But Jessie is insistent that we’re going to change that this year, so our Thanksgiving in July is going to be our trial run. And so, she has insisted we have a full on traditional Thanksgiving dinner, which Mikey was more than happy to put together, with the help of his sexy, red-headed sous chef. And I can’t think of a time in my life when I have ever had so much to be thankful for.
Liam sits beside me. He still has a way to go until he’s back to full strength, but he’s getting there, and with Jessie’s help, his emotional scars are healing too.
