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“Yes,” Nessa confirh up”

“He was Ennis Murray was the adviser to Ronan O’Shea,” I answered “Ronan was boss So that’s Shannon’s dad and Finn and Pat’s grandfather And since Ennis was dad to both your dad and Grace, Ennis was grandfather to all’a youse Get it?”

She knitted her brows together in concentration “I think so And Ronan wasn’t a good boss? I ht?”

“No, everybody loved Ronan,” I said “He was a great leader Even the Murrays preferred hi about retiring Since he was an O’Shea, it was his job to find a Murray who could take over And that’s when your dad went too far He felt it should be him, and he wasn’t quiet about it He basically started a ithin the syndicate, which had never happened before”

Nessa straightened in her seat, and her eyes widened a bit

I wasn’t going to share certain details, such as it was her fucking father who’d had Ronan and Ennis assassinated

“My dad did that?” she asked, shocked

I inclined my head and finished my stew

Then I wiped my mouth with my napkin and sat back “A lot of people ended up in prison back then, so John could take over fairly easily He had enough support on the outside”

We’d retaliated, though We’d bided our ti from the hteen…? Yeah, eighteen He’d had to wait We’d all had to be patient because nobody would’ve followed a kid, and it still had to be a Murray boss before an O’Shea could rise up