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"Do you think we’d ever hear the end of it if we didn’t tell hionna leave me out?" To to party the feckin’ night aithout you We’re gonna take care of Frank That ain’t so you should want to be a part of," I told him
As seriously as I’d ever seen him, he asked me, "Would you do the saet out of the truck But these boys were the nearest thing I had to brothers They’d know if I was lying Looking hi to talk about then, is there?" he asked with a cocky grin
We drove in silence until we got to the Severn Bridge, and then a thought occurred to ?" I asked Liaht Eh the copper’s radio before he turned it down"
"And you didn’t think to fucking share this bit of infor for her?" I shouted at theet mad at them about it," Liam barked at me "I heard it, and I kept it tothere anyway to check it out If you knew the address, you’d have torn that fucking house apart and scared the shit out of herthere when they found Em, you’d have been behind bars" His tone told me that he wasn’t sorry
"That should ’ave been ht was right, and I ain’t sorry for it Now stop your feckin’ bitchin’ I’ silence, I’d cale that he had a point Besides, after tonight I’d probably be in prison so I needed to build bridges while I could "Look, I’m sorry, mate I ain’t exactly rational at theif I was you" The whole truck went coreat Hurricane O’Connell fucking apologizing," Liaet fucking used to it I ain’t wrong often"
The mood became more serious, the farther into Wales we drove The rain poured heavily on the road ahead of us and reflected my mood As I watched one lonely drop of water roll down the , I thought about the rivers irl cried as she told me what had happened Already I kne badly I’d fucked up, just walking out on her like that I’d been thinking of iveher sos when it caot any of them
Chapter 20
We pulled up outside a tidy, well-looked-after semidetached house on a quiet street I the way had he checked the address or asked for directions
"I’ll knock on the door He’ll answer it I’ll kick the shit out of him," I told them
"How do you know he’ll answer it?" To control freak," Kieran answered forsurprised if he lets hisfor perhts were on but the rain beat down too heavy for uys pushedthat house that was so nor what had happened inside was the reason E that it was the reason she flinched whenever new people moved too quickly around her, only loosened the rein I had over ht heartbreaking clarity, how I felt when he took her and how tiny, beaten, and broken she looked unconscious and bloodied in that hospital bed
What the fuck was I still doing sitting in this truck? This ended now I cliuys had chance toacross the street, I pounded on the front door, and when Frank opened it with a cocky smirk, I pulled my shoulder back and punched him square in the face Like the spineless sack of shit that he was, he collapsed to the floor unconscious I’d knocked hi He’d collapsed in the doorway but I was nowhere near done Hell, this wasn’t even the end of round one
I could have picked him up easily but I didn’t want to touch him any rabbed hih the corridor When I reached the living roo his head hit the carpeted floor with an audible thud As I turned to head back to the front door, it closed gently and in walked Kieran Sitting himself down on the sofa, he waited forwatch," he murmured Frank started to coain I wanted to keep doing it until his head was so fucked up he didn’t even know his own name When he cah
"This is priceless," he joked "After this, you’ll be looking at a stretch behind bars, and as far as Emily is concerned, I’ll et to fucking say her na hih "What’s wrong, old man?" I barked at him "Not so much fun when you’re on the other end of the boot, is it?"
"Fuck you," he wheezed, dragging himself up onto the seat I let hiht
"Fuck ut isI’ finished with you, your own ly face" The fucker smiled at ain Blood streamed from his nose and a cut at the corner of his eye, and he spatthat it was his own fucking carpet he wasup