Page 38 of Lorcan

Chapter Ten

Lorcan

Igotintothelibrary and poured myself a drink. The migraine behind my eyes was doing nothing for my anger. Tossing the whiskey back, I let the liquid burn my throat. The only kind of pain I wanted to feel right now.

“It’s not going to wash your pain away,” I heard someone say from behind me.

I turned around and looked over at Ace, sitting in the corner in the shadows.

“And what the fuck are you doing in here?” I shot over at him.

“Keeping some form of sanity about me,” he replied, getting up and moving closer to me. I could see blood stains over his cut and arms.

“What happened?”

“Lost a couple of my guys last night,” he said. “I’ll leave you be.”

He was losing men because of me and all I could do was yell at him. I could see the shades of my father peeking through.

“I’m sorry,” I said. “You can stay, but only if you drink.”

Ace stopped in his tracks, slowly turning back around to face me. “Yeah, why not.”

He sat down opposite me and I handed him a glass. Pouring both of our drinks, we sat back in the old leather of the seats but we remained silent.

It took a few glasses before he opened up. “Your girl has some pretty brass balls.”

“She isn’t my girl.”

“Lorcan, no matter how hard you fucking fight, that girl is yours. I just hope you don’t waste any more time in figuring it out before it’s too late.”

He spoke as if he had some experience in the matter of losing those he loved. I really didn’t know much about him at all and yet he was losing men because of me.

“I need to know how to fix this.”

I’d never felt so at risk of losing everything, so weak before. If my father were here he would be horrified at what he was witnessing.

“Let me ask you this…consider that you love her, and I don’t want to hear that you don’t love. Imagine if you knew you loved her, what the hell is holding you back from claiming what’s yours?”

I thought about it, and it almost blew me over with how angry I was that no one consulted me before they sent her away.

“I can see by the rage in your eyes that you understand what I’m trying to say. If it were me, there’s nothing on this Earth that would stop me from breaking some bones, shooting some assholes and taking what’s mine.”

“You know what, Cooper, you’re right. I’ve lost sight of who I really am. I think it’s time to bring out the asshole my dad raised and wreak some fucking havoc.”

“That’s what I’m talkin’ about,” Ace lifted his glass up and downed the rest of his drink while I figured out what to do first.

Killian.

He was going to do exactly what I asked or I was going to make his life a living fucking hell, and being the older brother, I could most definitely do that.

I finished my drink, with a new plan to take back my city, my empire and my woman…after a solid 8 hours sleep because I was in fucking agony right now.

Bridget

“Percy?” I called out as I headed down what felt like the same corridor for the fifth time only to end up in a different part of the boat. How fucking big was this thing?

A door opened and a beautiful woman smiled over at me. “Are you lost?”

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