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I shoot him a glare. “Can it wait until morning?”
“If it could, I wouldn’t be here interrupting your evening.”
“It’s fine,” Laine says, picking up her cake. “I’m done in for the night, anyway. I’ll take this up to bed and see you in the morning.”
“But what about the terrace?”
She casts a quick look at Aiden and then drops her gaze. “The terrace will still be there tomorrow. Have a good evening, gentlemen.”
As she hurries away, Aiden crosses his arms over his broad chest and arches a brow.
“What?”
“I thought we agreed you’d keep your distance from her.”
“And I did. I sent her into the countryside for the day while we figured out our response plan for the McGuires. Finn found her people, and she spent the day with them.”
“So why is she back here?”
“Because she intrigues me.”
“With the McGuires making a play, you don’t need to be intrigued. You need to be focused.”
“And I am. Why do you have such a problem with her?”
“We know nothing about her. Has Finn looked into her?”
I reclaim my seat at the table and chunk off a large bite of my cake. Aiden may have ended my evening early, but I won’t let him take all the pleasure out of my night. “Enough to confirm that her story about arriving here and having a family in Brittas Bay rang true.”
“But what about her life in Chicago? Do we know anything about that?”
I swallow the raspberry-chocolate bliss and close my eyes. “No, but she’s sharing bits of her life as she begins to trust me.”
“Like that she’s married.”
“To an eejit who doesn’t take care of her.”
“That’s not your problem.”
I take another bite of cake and remind myself that Aiden is my advisor. It’s his job to advise. “You didn’t come back here to talk about Laine. What was it you wanted to talk to me about?”
He doesn’t look like he wants to let it go, but thankfully we move on. “Tonight went off without incident. Sean called in to say the first shipment of women was intercepted and delivered to the NGO.”
“And the McGuire men?”
“Eliminated.”
“The warehouse and holdings sites?”
“We haven’t nailed them all down yet, but we’re on it.”
“Mattie will try to rush another shipment through quickly. Watch for it. We have to make sure he can’t recover from this.”
Dublin’s criminal landscape is a chessboard, and every move we make shifts the pieces. The McGuires and the Quinns have coexisted for decades, but Mattie doesn’t seem to want to play by my father’s rules any longer.
“Anything else?”
Aiden drops his chin. “When Mattie realizes what’s happening, he’ll call a meeting to hash out a counterstrike. I have Siobhan working on where and when that will be. It might create an opportunity to clear the board.”
