Page 22 of Lorcan

“I need to know about her. About the girl you left here.”

“There’s not much to know,” she said. “Did she do something? I can get her a place close by.”

“Where are you?” I countered. How could she not have known what is happening here?

“I’m in Cork,” she replied. Instantly, my hackles rose.

“Why? We don’t run Cork anymore.”

“I’m just visiting an old friend,” she said, but I could hear the hesitancy in her voice. Suddenly, I was thinking that my oldest friend in town was now a liability.

“Who?”

“You don’t know him. He moved here when he married someone from here, but she’s gone missing so I’m helping him find her.”

Her tone told me she was telling the truth, but there was something she was hiding.

“What’s your friend’s name?”

“Ethan Darcy,” she said quickly. “Have you heard of him?”

“No, should I have?”

“I don’t know,” she chuckled, but it was nervous laughter.

Keeva couldn’t be trusted.

“Come home when you can,” I said. “We have shit going down.”

“You got it.”

She hung up quickly and I felt a wave of nausea hit me. Keeva had been there for me when Clementine died. She had patched me back up when I needed her to. She had run my businesses.

She had the fucking key to my empire.

Had it all been a game?

I picked up my phone and pulled up my brother’s number.

LORCAN

I need you to get someone to Cork and keep an eye on Keeva.

KILLIAN

Con told me Jye is close to Cork at the moment, getting his family ready to leave. I’ll have him route that way on his way back.

LORCAN

Get his family safe first.

KILLIAN

On it.

Killian knew how to keep things quiet. Jye was one of the only of our men that we trusted with everything. He’d been the most loyal, especially to Conor. Out of all of us, Conor needed someone to pull him into line when Teeghan wasn’t around and that was Jye.

I dialled another number I rarely had business to use and waited for the call to be answered.

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