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“I’ood,” I replied “Thanks, Case I mean it You’re always there for me”

“I am You better appreciate me”

I laughed but I was serious “I do”

“Goodnight, Beckett Get so”

“Goodnight”

I finished the bottle of bourbon that remained from a party I’d had a feeeks earlier – before Graham died

Before o to shit

Finally, when the room spun fro out sometime after three

The next day, I was pretty hung over and feeling incredibly sorry for ht up on oing to fund the next project while I waited for the brownstone to sell While I was stirring a raw egg into a post-drunk concoction Casey swore got rid of hangovers,text I checkedest brother of three, he liked to have me over so we could catch up on family matters

After a long day at work, I went to my fitness club for a workout and then after a quick shower, I made my way to Colm’s restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen, the home of the local Irish-Aht with the Irish Defense Force back in the day but got out of Ireland as soon as he could, bringing his wife and kids with hih money to start a restaurant He was perhaps the only man in my family hom I could identify He and my father were very close when they were kids

My grandfather was an engineer back in Northern Ireland My father carried on with the fa, but wanted to beco a coeneration Like Brandon, he wanted to create a business e up in the mean streets of Northern Ireland, even if your father was one of the more fortunate ones due to his career and IDFlike you were ha your dreams

My father followed his drea a business empire that he could pass on to his son didn’t pan out I didn’t get his business when he died His older brother Donny did Donny, the thug The lowlife in the local Irish Mafia How I hated him…

Coled his shoulders There was nothing he, as the youngest brother, could do Donny was the head of the family now He was also involved with very scary men I wasn’t afraid of them I’d looked death in the eye many tihanistan They were scuious zealots who tried to blow us up

Colm was someone I could respect He in turn respected my desire to join the Marines, and we spent soot together Fighting was so separated for all those years after my mother and father divorced and I moved down to New Orleans and then California with her and her new husband

I drove my car over to the restaurant in Hell’s Kitchen Despite the fact Colm wasn’t involved in the mafia, and tried to run a clean ship, he still had to face its reality so there was a security guy standing outside the back entrance, sarette