Page 76 of Taming Irish

I dig my heels in. “Not until you explain how you knew I was here, and who that-” I point at the beady-eyed guy. “-is.”

“Emer texted me and told me she’d left ye at the pub. Which I wasn’t very happy about. Ye shouldn’t be flouncing around Dublin byyerself.”

“I wasn’t flouncing-” I shake my head at him. “You’re changing thesubject.”

“The man was keeping an eye onye.”

“Why?”

“Because I was worried…” He drags his fingers through his hair and mutters acurse.

While I’m not thrilled with him having someone following me, the fact that he was worried about me says something. “Still…”

Shane sighs again. “There’s something we need to talkabout.”

And with his words, I feel all my walls building back up at breakneck speed. Because nothing ever good comes from the statement,We need totalk.

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