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I glance over at Owen.
Yeah, I don’t think I’m going to get much of an answer from him at the moment. Seems like I’m the one making the choice.
“Sure, Dad. We will be there this weekend. Sounds good.”
I guess we have to do it soon, right?
Might as well get it over and done with…
THIRTY
OWEN
Fuck.
This is unnerving.
Just because I’ve been around these sort of men for most of my life, doesn’t make me any more comfortable right now.
Usually I’m in a man’s home because I’ve been hired for a job. I’m wanted. Needed even.
But this is different.
This is me in a man’s home because I’ve fallen in love with his daughter.
God, Dorian isn’t going to be impressed, is he? No wonder he looks so mad. I’mwayolder than Emma, and we didn’t exactly meet in a conventional way.
Worst of all, I’m a mercenary. A hired man for contracts, with no real loyalty to anyone.
I doubt the O’Connell’s will like that.
But every time the nerves threaten to consume me, Emma brings me back down to earth with her hand on my leg. She’s with me through all of this, so at least I’m not alone.
“So, you’re the big hero, right?”
A giant guy with the broadest shoulders I might have ever seen claps his hands down on my shoulders.
“Owen, this is Cillian. My oldest brother.” Emma rolls her eyes. “And this is Loch and Keegan, the twins, and Fionn too.”
The introductions are brief, but I do my best to make a good impression on Emma’s family. Her brothers aren’t looking at me like they want to kill me, which is a good thing.
I hope.
“Did you really foil Vinnie?” Fionn asks me with a playful smirk. “That asshole has been causing us issues forever. I can’t believe you outsmarted him. That’s unheard of.”
I kinda nod, because I don’t want to brag or anything. But I guess I did.
Mind you, I wouldn’t have done it, if it weren’t for Emma.
If I didn’t fall for Emma, this could have had a very different outcome.
“So, you took the Flynn’s down, huh?” Keegan laughs. “You really are a bad ass.”
“And killed Hudson too, right?” Loch says proudly. “That was something else. I heard all about that. You definitely saved our sister doing that.”
Okay, so it feels like her brothers don’t hate me, which is great. But I can still feel Dorian’s hard eyes on me. He has a few things he wants to say to me, I’m sure.
He has a reputation for not being easily impressed anyway, and Emma told me that he might take a while to come around, so I’m not going to get too panicked about it.
