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I know Kieran sees it too. You can’t reason with Cato when he gets it in his head to do something.
“I’m going with him,” Hayden says.
Kieran stretches out his arm, touching his tattoo. “They will regret this.”
We spend the next few hours preparing for their departure, gathering a team of ten men for Cato and Hayden, who will unleash hell in their quest to find a lead. Cato and Hayden leave to say goodbye to their wives.
“How’s Violet?” Kieran asks.
“A pain in my ass.”
“You’re awfully defensive.”
“No. I’m not.”
“I was in denial too.”
“Kieran . . .”
“I remember walking around making threats too.”
With every reply, his expression gets more smug.
“There is no reasoning with you,” I groan.
He smirks. “This has to work.”
He looks at the panels on the walls filled with reports on the Brotherhood. We’re being attacked from every angle. It’s more than losing money, clients, and prestige; it’s about losing power. That could be catastrophic for what we’ve built.
“They have to know about our past.”
As if a light bulb turns on in his head, he strides to the elevator and I follow him.
“What are you thinking, Kieran?”
“Maybe I overlooked something.”
I follow him to his office. He yanks open the side table drawer, taking out the black notebook his father gave him.
“You know those names by heart.”
I approach him and see a few notes he scribbled next to some names. Returning to the conference room, we spend the next few hours reviewing each name.
Kieran calls Hayden. “Bring me your black notebook. If you’re going to hunt, you should know who you’re hunting.”
When Cato and Hayden come back, they find us sitting around the table. Kieran gestures for Hayden’s notebook. Kieran’s father gave Hayden something just as valuable: the other notebook, a lot of contacts, and an impressive inheritance. They’re brothers and they would die for each other. That’s what brothers do.
While Kieran and Rowan go through every name, Cato asks, “What the fuck changed so fast?”
“Kieran got emotional. I don’t think he can bear losing any of you.”
They chuckle, though Kieran threatens me with a heated glare. It has never worked before, and it never will. I had to cut the tension a bit. This mission is too dangerous; too many variables could go wrong.
“I found something in the notebook.” After getting our attention, Kieran adds, “Remember when we started out?”
Cato and I nod. We started the Syndicate with our trust funds and that notebook. “My father said, ‘You will be the best when you have everything under you. The ones you can’t control will control you.’”
“But everyone in that book—”
