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"Em baked it for the little fucker," Mac told him
"Sunshine, I’ anyone chocolate cake, it should be me"
"It’s not for Tomet a piece, but his mum’s been under a lot of stress lately, so this is to make her feel better and I’irlfriend"
None of the guys actually said, "a," but they did all look at me like I was a cute little puppy
"Wait," said Tommy, "you called Con her boyfriend"
"Only aTommy on the back
"Fuck," roaned orwith theh for hithis bunch of depraved eous, and you bake They’re pissed off that Con wants to take you off the market He’s shown his hand, so if anyone of these fuckers wants to ask you out, they need to go through hiygerated reat at cooking, but I could bake a mean chocolate cake In all of this, I did wonder if O’Connell had heard me at all when I told hi fate, but I needed to know that I was strong enough to stand alone before I’d fall back on O’Connell for support
"Whenyou holoomily, then after a short pause, he sed or , so there’s still plenty of time for her to wise up, blow off O’Connell, andrelentless, aren’t you, Toonna be ten tih shit, arsehole," To irl’s chocolate cake"
I laughed as To the tin He ht not be as tall as the other boys, but he sure was quick As the guys went back to their training, I felt a quick wet peck against my cheek
"Thanks, sunshine," Tommy told me, in possibly the first serious tone that he’d used since I’d known hi that nice forit takes work It’s gonna make me Ma cry, but in a nice way, you know? So thanks," he said, then kissed ht him
"You’re welcoo into y on the speedball so hard, I was sure it would break His rhythm was literally seamless, and his face a h, as he caught my eye, s fro back to the computer I didn’t see him when Kieran came to take me ho O’Connell’s runs to coincide with my arrival and departure He didn’t even come in with subs, but Kieran explained that O’Connell wouldn’t be paying the?" I probed, as alked out
"Seriously, he’s training like a fucking aniht like this He’s like afor the other shoe to drop," he explained
"What do you oes off the rails when his on It’s like they’re linked When’s she’s doing good, he’s doing good Danny’s agreed to train him because he left home, and he’s never done that before When she finds out what Con’s doing, she’s gonna be pissed Either that or she’ll want a piece of the action That’s when Danny thinks the shit will really hit the fan"
"Why wouldn’t she be happy that O’Connell is really trying to etting hurt"
"She couldn’t give a fuck about him," scoffed Kieran "The selfish bitch likes Con to co the centre of his world I guess fighting takes away from that Plus, he doesn’t have any money to help her out now"
The whole relationship sounded toxic to h, so I kept o back once she finds out?" I asked
"No, E as you don’t bail on him, I think he’ll see past her bullshit this ti et into After he ht to bed, happier than I’d been in a long tiainst the oke ht was that Frank had founddown ht to co back the curtain slightly to see as out there O’Connell stood under the street la stones I looked back at the clock to see that it was goneup the , I could feel the bitter bite of frost creep into the already chilly room
"Hey," I called down
"Hey, baby I’ to say goodnight"
"Coe or even checkthe ancient buzzer to the htly on my door He must have raced up the stairs I opened up for him, bleary-eyed and conscious that I was dressed only in a pair of old boy shorts and a fleecy sweater Du inside the door, he pulled me toward him, and I becaently, almost reverently He kissed me like it was our first kiss, like I was a priceless treasure that could be broken or stolen from him at any moment