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Be sure to tell Mair and Ally that.

Shane

Thankyounothankyou I’ll get everything organized. Are you staying with her tonight or going back to your place? Should we all meet?

Me

We should but I don’t think I can. I don’t want to leave her alone because I don’t trust her bodyguard not to drag her out of here if she’s alone. I don’t trust Ewan not to fly down and freak out at her. But bringing her with me is a level we’re not at.

Shane

Yet

Me

Probably

Shane

Fine keep me posted

Me

Same

I know my brother will make all the arrangements for us to travel tomorrow. He’ll come with me, and so will a few of our guys. I’d like to slide in and out of Boston with no fuss. Ideally, I’d observe Ewan for a day or two and get a read on his reaction. It could be nothing, and I’d go home. The likelihood of things playing out that way is pretty much none. Even flying commercial wouldn’t hide us for long, so I’d rather have the convenience of our jet, so we can leave in a hurry. And most importantly, I could bring Lina.

The confrontation is pretty much inevitable. I want Lina far from it. But I don’t trust Ewan not to put her in the middle. God save me from meddling brothers because I don’t know what I’ll do if Lina sees the man I really am.

Chapter Eight

Lina

I think Sean was texting while I dozed. I sorta felt his arms moving, but I was too tired to tell. I’m lying still, listening to his heart right now. The moment I came fully awake, I realized our bodies aren’t joined anymore. Damn male anatomy. I’ve warmed cocks before by just sitting on them, but it was always a type of submission in the past. It was about them controlling when I could or couldn’t get off. About them deciding when I did or didn’t get their attention.

I know I had Sean’s complete attention while I was awake. I sense he knows I’m awake now and that I have his attention again. I could fuck him to get myself—or, preferably, both of us—off, and he wouldn’t stop me because I’m not his sub. I know he’d see it—me—as equals.

I kiss his collar bone before sitting up. “Hi.”

“Hi, little one. Do you feel rested?”

“More than I did.” My brow furrows. “What happened?”

His eyes widen, and I know he’s letting me see his surprise. If he didn’t want me to, then I wouldn’t. But I’m certain something is even more off than it was before I fell asleep.

“I’m going to Boston tomorrow.”

“I figured. I don’t want you to, but I’m certain I can’t talk you out of it.”

“Have you changed your mind?”

I shake my head. “Not at all. Me not wanting you to go has nothing to do with me ending this or wanting to hide this. I don’t want Ewan trying to kill you, and I don’t want you succeeding at killing him.” I shrug because I feel a wave of sadness slam into me.

“Lina, I’m not going there to hurt him. I’m not going there to kill him. As long as he keeps you protected…”

He trails off, and I know he means he won’t kill Ewan as long as he leaves me out of it. But my brother won’t. He can’t. Sean said his cousin met with Nishida a few weeks ago. I met with him today. Ewan’s going to expect me to brief him on that because he’s obviously found another way to try to fuck the O’Rourkes over.

“It’s going to piss him off to find out I slept with you because I want you, not to get something out of you.”

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