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"Not until you—"

"Stop it. You're hurting me."

Suddenly, I was free, and Malone was slammed into the wall next to me. I moved away, shocked at the sound of my attacker's skull meeting brick.

"When a woman says no, fucker, it's a no." Great, so Callum hadfollowed me.

"It's you," Malone sneered.

I pulled out my phone and, with shaking fingers, texted Titus to come around the bar.

Callum had his hand around Malone's throat, and he had him pinned to the wall. "I know you," Callum said confused. He looked at me. "You know him?"

I shook my head first and then nodded. How on earth was I going to explain how I knew this idiot?

"Of course, she knows me. She's Sabine's sister," Malone barked.

"And what the fuck are you doing putting your hands on her?" Callum's tone had gone from heated to cold. The ice was scarier.

"I need to talk to Sabine. I need to. She won't speak to me." Malone sounded desperate now and began to sob. "She needs to talk to me. I know about the baby. I know."

Callum dropped his hand as if scorched. "What?"

I wrapped my arms around me and sighed in relief when Titus stepped into the light. "Is there trouble here?" he asked.

"This guy had his hands on Fleur." Callum cupped my cheek. "You okay,Grian?"

It felt nice to hear that nickname, so I didn't bark at him to stop calling me thatortouching me. Malone had rattled me. I sniffled as my adrenaline started to come down.

"Who's this guy?" Titus wanted to know.

"Grian?" Callum looked at me pleadingly. He wasn't stupid. He'd put two and two together. Sabine, baby, tweaked guy. Oldest and saddest story in the fucking universe.

"You have to ask him," I whispered.

"Why?"

I bit my lower lip. "Because I promised Seamus I wouldn't say anything." Even saying what I had was not in the spirit of my promise to Callum's brother, but Malone was here, making a nuisance of himself, and the truth, I was afraid, was going to come out whether Seamus liked it or not.

Chapter 12

Callum

Iwas angry. Furious. Enraged.

"Why the fuck didn't you tell me?" I shouted at Fleur. She sat on her couch while I paced back and forth across her living room.

"I promised Seamus I wouldn't," she said, her voice barely a whisper.

Malone had spilled his guts at Fleur's place after which I'd gotten him back to his hotel in a car.

He and Sabine had been having an affair while she was married to Seamus. Seamus had found out and had confronted Sabine when she was at her parents' house.

Fleur, who was also visiting, had overheard the conversation and when Seamus had asked if she'd known, she'd admitted she hadn't.

Sabine was having an affair.

Fucking hell!

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