Page 43 of Dear, Carson McDermott
Katerina cocked her brow,
“Psycho? Is she really, cause I don’t like threatening the crazies. They show up when I’m not fully ready.”
I chuckled, “One, Cross would never put her hands on you or her bullets. I’d kill ‘er and she knows it. Two, she’s my brother’s ex-wife. She’ll be here later on tonight and so will he, but good luck to us all because those two cannot be in the same room.”
Katerina was shocked.
“Hold up, we’ve known each other for how long? And now, you want to tell me that you have a brother? And a whole sister-in-law?”
I shrugged,
“I couldn’t tell you because of their jobs.”
“What’s the difference now?” She asked me.
“The difference is the McDermott’s have to take care of those who hurt us and in order for us to do that, we need them.”
Katerina tilted her head,
“Ooookay, but you could’ve asked my family as well.”
I shook my head,
“No, I want to do this my way. I love your family, don’ get me wrong. They are my family too but there are somethings that I have to do the McDermott way, you get me?”
Katerina thought about it for a moment and then she nodded.
“I get it. So, tell me about my brother-in-law, what is he like?”
I just stared at her. Not because she was asking about my brother but because she called him her brother in law. She must’ve realized as she began to backtrack.
“Too soon?” She asked.
I didn’t want to lie to her, so I simply nodded.
“Yeah a little,” I answered. “Either way, I’ll tell you about my idiotic little brother, Beau McDermott. We have different moms. His mother, Jo-Marie was sweet when I first met her, but I couldn’t trust any other woman to get too close. She tried though; she still calls me from time to time. She’s had it bad for Dad, but you know him, he won’t ever love again. I can just tell. He’s closed off with everything that doesn’t involve me and Beau. So, Beau, Cross and I trained together. Well, I started before them and then they joined when they were around five or six.”
I didn’t even get to finish and there Katerina was, sitting up tucking her legs under her bum.
“Wait, wait, wait… Training for what? And what’s Cross’s real name?”
“I can’t tell you her name unless she tells it to you herself and assassin’s training.”
Her eyes grew wider,
“Holy fuck!” She exclaimed. “So, you mean to tell me this whole time, you could’ve killed me in my sleep when I was lying next to you and I would’ve never even known?”
I smirked.
“I would’ve never done such a thing darlin’. Believe it or not, we assassins also have a code. A very different one from the ones society has but come on, kill my own wife? Now, that’s crazy.”
Katerina nodded as though she was processing the information.
“Okay, okay but you did wrap your hand around my throat. Like you tightened it like you wanted me dead.”
I blinked,
“But you liked it. Even though all of the fear of seeing the angry side of me more, your eyes…” I confessed.
