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She darts a glance at Sean. And the guilt… Oh, the motherfucking guilt.

“You were fucking Mikhail while you were with Sean. It was supposed to be monogamous. You betrayed him even back then. You aren’t loyal to Mikhail because you just gave up his name. You weren’t loyal to Sean when I’m certain you swore you weren’t taking anyone else up your ass. What about our little friend on the phone? What’s your connection to him?”

“I told you. He came into the club and approached me. We talked, and I let it slip about being with Sean.”

“When was this?”

“A few weeks ago. He was in town for a few days.”

“Why’d you agree?”

Sean hasn’t stopped me interrogating her, so this is information he either doesn’t know yet, or he wants confirming. He hasn’t made me lower the gun, which I really thought he would. Not just for Lucy’s sake, but to keep me from putting someone’s death on my conscience. I will sleep just fine tonight.

“Because I knew he was with you!”

The venom in her voice would be shocking if I didn’t already know the answer.

“Anything you want to know from her, Sean?”

“No.”

“Anyone else?” I speak to the guys behind me. My guess is they’re all here, but I don’t know.”

“No.” There are a couple voices behind me, but I don’t know who’s who.

I step closer, and Sean tries to intervene now. I wrap my hand around Lucy’s throat. I know Sean already saw the bruises there. You can’t miss them. I squeeze as tightly as I can, and her mouth opens in panic. Once more, I stick the gun in there, but I angle it up this time. I ease the hold on her neck.

“Look at him.”

She turns pleading eyes on Sean. He does nothing.

“Look at me.”

She whimpers as her gaze meets mine.

“He chose me.”

I squeeze the trigger.

Chapter Twenty-Two

Sean

I do choose Lina, and I will over and over.

After I spank her until my hand hurts, then spank her for making it hurt.

We watch Lucy crumple to the floor as Lina lets go. If I hadn’t seen the result of this kind of gunshot wound to the head, it would make me puke. It did the first few times. I watch Lina. She appears completely unaffected. She turns to me.

“I’m not a sociopath, Sean. Don’t look at me like that. It’s not that I’m unmoved by killing someone. She just isn’t the first person I have. She isn’t the first person I’ve seen die that way, either.”

I put the safety back on the gun after I take it from Lina and drop it onto the sofa. Then she’s in my arms. We collide, then cling to one another. I hear my brothers, but I’m not paying attention to them or my cousins. I have my cailín back in my arms where she belongs. We turn our heads to face each other, and our lips meet. I can’t get enough of her. The way her plump lips feel against mine. The satin insides of her cheeks. The smoothness of her tongue as it tangles with mine. I lift her, and she wraps her legs around my waist.

I break the kiss long enough to look toward the hallway where two bedrooms must be. We say nothing as we walk past my family, who ignore us. I know they’re getting people over here to deal with the mess. I’m certain they’re making calls to find out Ewan’s role in this. I’ll ask Lina, but I’m sure she doesn’t know more than a sliver.

I kick the door shut and turn us until her back is against the wall. When I wrap my hand around her throat, it isn’t in a punishing grip like Lina had on Lucy. I just realized both names start with L. Start with the same sound. Yet they couldn’t be more different. Besides the kinky sex, they are nothing alike. They don’t look similar. They don’t sound similar. Taste, touch, scent. Not the same.

But it’s so much more than that. I never trusted Lucy completely. I’ve trusted Lina since the beginning. Moments of doubt have cropped up—like finding out she’d run from my parents’ home. But her loyalty to me is everything. She did this to protect me.

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