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Things have changed

Aengus has changed

But so have I

"Jie, and he knows exactly who he’s us asks, "Eamon do that for ya?"

"Yeah"

Another pause "So what now?"

"You idiot" Ibetween his words Can I be trusted not to say anything when the gardai co on our door? Like I’d ever turn on o to work, just like every other day, and try to forget this" I pause, a pinch of disappointus up at the prison gates to bring him back to the house we three brothers own--left to us by our nanny--I was hopeful that after losing six years behind bars, freedohten out his priorities

"There’s an open house on Saturday Make sure you’re not here" The house is nothing fancy--a detached three-bedrooardens in the front and rear, and a separate garage--but thesince been paid off It should fetch us at least 300,000 euro Rowen and I will take our share and invest in sous will likely piss his away in a kip so on borrowed time, and I don’t want to be around your poor choices I don’t want Rowen around the dare tell Jimmy that I was even at the Green that day"

For once, he doesn’t argue with lad I was out of the city that day" I wonder if he can hearfrom over four thousand miles away My dad has a built-in lie detector, thanks to years of policing The thing is, it’s never beenI don’t think he expects it That’s probably the only thing that’s saving ain?" Metal clangs in the background, tellingon his retire in his sheriff’s badge last fall

"In Ireland? Twelve days I have nine left, now I fly out next Sunday"

Hefor free," I reoing to costthere were real estate azines on the kitchen table of our ranch house, with arrows and angry red nuet me in the way of a down paye that for you," he finally admits