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“Yeah?”

“That’s no way to answer a goddamn phone, Bastian.”

Saverio’s youngest brother had always been a smart ass just like Conor. The two of them in a room would send me into an asylum.

“You sound like Sav.”

“Good,” I said, angrily. “Did they arrive yet?”

“Yeah, they got here a little while ago. All the girls are eating.”

“Including the blonde?” I asked.

“Yeah, she’s here. She’s a little bitchy.”

“Watch your mouth,” I said. “She’s not to be touched, you understand?”

“Yeah, yeah,” he said, absently. “We have hotter girls here in Roma.”

I rolled my eyes. “Just make sure they are cared for and keep everything off the radar. No one is to know where they are.”

He agreed in Italian, and hung up the phone. My agitation grew, which only made me feel sorry for Saverio with the attitude he had to deal with. Conor, at least, had a little respect for me.

My mind went back to Keeva, and her betrayal. Nothing had been confirmed yet, of course, but I had my suspicions. My gut had never let me down.

Ever.

She was hiding something and I knew it couldn’t be good.

Did this have anything to do with Bridget and her Corkish accent? She claimed not to know anything about Bridget but was that true?

I picked up my laptop from the bottom desk drawer and entered my password to our files. We’d had a number of files from one of the safe houses the O’Brien’s had and many of them were files that could tell us who the players were in this game Ronan was running.

I searched through all the names for Ethan Darcy.

My alert pinged to tell me it had found his name in one of the Moriarty files. The files on them were minor which was why we hadn’t burst their little bubble down there yet, but the name pinging in their file and Bridget’s real identity was too coincidental.

This all led back to them and they were the ones housing Ronan and Amity, I was sure of it.

Fuck.

This was deeper than I could have ever imagined.

We were in serious trouble. I picked up my phone and texted Ace.

LORCAN

Are you close by? I need you to come and talk to me about Cork.

ACE

Yeah, I’ll be there in a few.

LORCAN

My office.

ACE

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