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"I don’t mean to be rude, Father, but why does Danny think you’ll be better than an actual psychologist?" I asked him curiously

"Because you’ll actually talk to ist, Danny thinks you’d either tell him what you think he needs to hear or not speak to hi when you’re getting in the ring?" I asked him He put down his papers and looked at me in a way thaton to your anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die," he told me

"That’s a bit deep, isn’t it?"

"Well, Buddha knows his stuff"

I let what he’d said sink in for aht without the anger"

"As long as I’ve known you, it’s been a big part of who you are But you went frohter the day you met Em, and that tells me it’s the love that fuels you ht of it like that buthis papers as he put on his reading glasses

"Think about the last tier What happened right before you got angry?" He read the question out slowly like the font was too small to read but he looked up expectantly when he was done

I glanced down at his lap and there were several pages of questions to answer "Father, where did you get all these questions frole is brilliant isn’t it? Kieran sorted ot Danny that satellite TV I tell you, I have e Absolutely ot a Twitter account?" I asked skeptically I didn’t even have eement counsellor had a Twitter account

"Oh yes I have over three hundred followers"

"You’re kidding?" I was stunned

"It appears to beer s I had back then so I can’t say I blame them"

"But you’re a priest!" I blurted out, horrified at the idea of Father Pat with his harem of Twitter followers

"Aye," he said as he leaned over to wink at me conspiratorially "But that’s what makes me attractive, you see I’m unattainable They all hat they can’t have" There were absolutely no words to respond to that

"Next question What is the one behavior you er?" He read out the question slowly again, and I closedto be very long and painful

"Which one of you fuckers shot ered next tome smile Turns out that my session with Father Pat had made me feel better Like confession, it was cathartic, and it did ood therapy as shooting Tommy in the arse with a pink paintball When Kieran cayht it was a brilliant idea We were split into two teams with me, Kier, and Earnshaw on one side and Lia to join Driscoll’s, on the other

"What’s the plan?" whispered Earnshaw He held his weapon tightly as he surveyed the forest ahead You’d think he was in training for the special forces given how seriously he was taking this thing