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My brother releases a long Fuuuuuk in his thick brogue.
“Do you need me there to give her a talking to?” he asks.
“No! I can handle her. I just need…” A sharp pain nags at my chest. “I need help with Cormac.”
“He’s locked up in rehab for three months.”
“Already?” I’m shocked Cormac hasn’t shouted from the rooftops that I have the Bratva princess.
“I don’t fuck around, Dar. He’s under control.”
“What happens after three months?”
“Don’t worry about it.”
“Tell me.” I still feel protective of him.
“Lachlan killed a quack doctor here who messed with Riordan’s wife. We need a new butcher.”
We… My family. Shit.
“He doesn’t want to live in Astoria.”
“Too fucking bad. Cormac had his chance to live on his own. He fucked it up, and now he has to pay.”
“That’s my fault.”
“No, it’s not, Darragh. You made him your responsibility. No one here saw you as his keeper. He fucked up despite all your help and covering for him. I’m arranging to bring him home after he does his mandatory rehab in Malibu.”
“He won’t agree to it.”
“Lachlan will handle him.”
“Are you sure you want him back in Astoria?” I shudder. “He can spill about Stasia’s baby.”
It feels weird referring to her as that now, even though it’s the name we all knew her by for years.
“Admit to her father that he knocked her up and kept her against her will? That will get a bullet in his head. Cormac won’t say a word.”
“I want to keep her,” I say softly. “I… It makes no sense, Eoghan. But I’m attracted to her. She’s attracted to me. We…we have chemistry. I know I can convince her to stay here with me.” God, nothing good can come of how I feel about her, but I can’t stop. “Raise the baby—”
It’s eating me alive.
“Stop thinking with your dick. That’s the future pakhan, Darragh.”
“I know that,” I snap.
Fully aware that if Lachlan can kill a doctor and drag Cormac back to New York, I know he can do the same to me.
And Ana.
“Shite,” Eoghan mumbles. “You want that danger on your doorstep with Sophie living under your roof?”
“Stasia confessed to me that she left her father on her own. She wasn’t kidnapped. She was going to be married off to the Boston pakhan.”
Eoghan breathes heavily like anger invaded his soul.
“That fucking Siberian snake never once mentioned that.”
