Page 80 of Vengeful Secret

I blink.

It’s still strange having my little brother’s best friend, who is also my sister’s fiancé, call me boss, but I guess it’s something I’ll have to get used to. At least until Da is better.

“I don’t think so, no. I’d like to do this myself.”

Kael claps me on the back and then walks up the stairs.

I take a deep breath and input the code—my mother’s birthday—and the door buzzes and clicks open.

As soon as I open the soundproof door, I can hear him sniffling.

I roll my eyes.

He’s huddled against the far wall, his hands ziptied in front of him instead of behind him.

The first day, he’d been hog-tied. Kael has a heart after all.

Unfortunately for the man shivering in the corner, I don’t. Not when it comes to the Murphys and how they’ve attacked my family.

“What’s your name?”

I expect him to beg and whine, but instead he just looks up at me with wet, clear brown eyes.

“Darragh.”

“Murphy?”

He shakes his head. “Kennedy.”

I hum. The Kennedys were cousins of Niall Murphy.

“Did Niall send you after Sutton?”

“He sent me after all the Burke girls,” he corrects, and when I take a step closer, he cowers, trying to make himself small.

“You know how this goes,” I say slowly. “So, it’d be easier and less painful for you if you tell me what I need to know.”

His Adam’s apple bobs. “Either you kill me, or Murphy kills me. Doesn’t seem like much of a choice.”

I take another step toward him, putting my boot on his crotch and grinding down on his testicles.

He chokes and lets out a little scream.

“Oh, but I’ll kill youslow, boyo,” I drawl. “I promise you I’ll make you suffer more than Murphy will.”

He nods, starting to sweat, as I slowly move my boot off him.

“If I talk, you won’t… you won’t hurt me?” he asks in a thin, screamy voice, panting.

I give him my best crooked smile. “Of course not. I’m not a monster.”

Little does he know.

He takes in a breath.

“Niall sent me and a few other guys?—”

“Names,” I bark, and Darragh chokes and then takes in another shaking breath.

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