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I rolled el, you know”

“You are Your halo’s actually blinding That’s why I close my eyes all the time”

“Tsk” I sucked hed, sitting up to hold o”

“Let go, but it’s not working” He sighed, kissing the back ofyou for a while, Ms O’ Tierney”

“That’s for me to decide, and I like et up, but he held ain

“Ceann Na Conairte,” he whispered, his grip relaxing on me “It means the leader of the pack”

“I know that But why pack? Are you wolves?”

He bared his teeth at h He smiled, but that smile didn’t fade

“No, it’s not wolves or anih everyone loves that symbolism The title Ceann Na Conairte ainst the tree with his hands “Sofor it, but they don’t understand that it’s just a burden It means there are people behind you that you’re constantly required to protect, uplift, and move forward It is not just you, just the acy, the power, and place we have struggled so hard to get to in this world”

“To be called that seereat honor Why do you hate it?”

He cupped my cheek “Because so, you have to be strong and protect theoes down, you have to force the others to keep going so everyone else doesn’t go down, too Itout any weakness froer picture Do you knohat my father did when he was told my mother had died?”

I shook my head

“He finished his round of golf” He s hiht it was better for the world to think he did not care about her than for them to think he eak Because thatfor soolf, went to dinner with business partners, and finally hours later, came to see her body He smacked Killian because his eyes were red and ere in public”

“Oh, my…how could he do that?”

“That is what I said And Killian sht, and I shouldn’t bring any more shame on to the Callahan name” He tensed his jaw “I hate the name Ceann Na Conairte because to be the Ceann Na Conairte, you must not show mercy to anyone, not even to yourself I watched as it made my father heartless and my brother heartless”