Page 129 of Fix You

At that moment, my phone rang. When I glanced at the caller ID, I grimaced. “Who is it?” Maeve asked.

“Dare.” After the scene I’d just experienced with one Kavanaugh brother, I wasn’t stoked at the prospect of talking to another one. “Hello?”

“I heard you had a little tussle on the tarmac.”

At the teasing tone of his voice, I sighed in relief. “Good news travels fast.”

Dare chuckled. “How’s Maeve?”

“Despondent.”

“Put her on speaker.” As soon as I complied, Dare began rattling away in Irish. Whatever he said was a balm for her soul because her tears dried up, and she managed to smile a few times.

“Apparently I need to speed up my Irish lessons,” I mused.

“Sorry, boyo, I knew Maeve needed to hear comforting words and what better way to do it than what she grew up with.”

“As long as you weren’t calling me names.”

“Of course I was.”

I laughed. “Testa di cazzo.”

“Touche. But I do know what that one is because Caterina told me.”

“I see you’re not denying you are one.”

“Never.”

Maeve playfully rolled her eyes at our antics. “Dare was saying he doesn’t feel like Callum. He wanted me to know that neither do Kellan and Eamon. Despite the risks, he wants me to be happy.”

I found my throat feeling tighter. “That means a lot, man.”

“Does that mean you’ll comp my drinks this coming weekend at the club?”

Before I could answer, Maeve shrieked in horror. “You’vebeen to Inferno?”

“Of course I have.”

Maeve covered her eyes with her hands. “Oh my God, does that mean he could’ve been in Lust when we were?”

“No. I made sure of that.”

A pause came over the line. “What the fucking hell?Maevehas been to Lust?”

Mortification flushed Maeve’s cheeks red. “Maybe,” she whispered.

“Okay, I take that back, Neretti. I’m on Callum’s side now.”

“Whatever,” I grunted.

His deep chuckle rumbled through the phone. “I’m just kidding. But Jesus, Joseph, and Mary, I could’ve lived a lifetime without knowing my little sister has been in a sex club.”

“Trust me, I feel the same way,” Maeve moaned.

“If I promise to keep Maeve home, will you come visit the club and us this weekend?” I suggested.

“I sure as hell will. I’ll bring Kellan and Eamon with me to see you, too.”

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