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“Of course.”
“Okay, meet me there in an hour.”
“See you then.”
An hour later we were walking into the bakery, and it was empty. Lights on, a little old lady at the counter, but no customers.
“Hi, Erma.” Zion smiled and walked over to the old lady, kissing her cheek.
“Hey there, boys.”
“Thanks for letting us have a quick meeting here.” Zion beamed and Erma returned it.
“Anything for you. I’ll be in my office in the back.”
She sauntered off and we all moved toward a table. A minute later Finn, Lorcan, and Conor entered.
All three men approached, each kissing my cheeks and taking a seat. “So here we are, Finn, what do you got?”
“Lorcan?” Finn motioned for Lorcan to speak.
“The morning Sean and Aine were killed, a strange request came in from Aiden. He said it was on your behalf. He wanted my soldiers to go into Norport, said the night club Hugh and Rory wanted was getting some vagrants. Hugh had half his guys on a job, so it was quiet in my sector and we went.”
“Conor?” Finn asked.
“Yeah, same call came into me, but it was to go to Danford for Rory, same reason. Since the club dances the line, I asked about Hugh’s guys and he said they were busy and Rory’s guys were dealing with something for you. I didn’t question him, didn’t think to.”
“And the restaurant where Sean and Aine were killed was in Arbor Flats but only a couple of miles from Kent,” I surmised. “He wanted to make sure I had zero backup and none of the family would see the shooting.” I turned to Vin. “That’s why I didn’t see anyone, because if they all knew I’d be there with Sean and Aine, Conor would have made sure I had people, and Lorcan being so close could have stumbled across the SUV flying down the street, and the setup to frame the Bleeding Angels would have gone up in smoke.”
“Damn, Aiden’s been busy, that two timing son of a bitch rat bastard,” Conor growled, but my eyes were on Finn.
“What aren’t you telling me, Finn?”
He sighed. “I didn’t think nothin’ of it until Oscar figured out where the money went.”
I motioned for him to go on.
“About six months ago, during one of our weekly poker games, Aiden was asking me and Rowan a bunch of questions. Like what would happen if something happened to you, who’d take over. Rowan explained that everyone would likely side with Sean in that instance.”
“Which you all should have done to begin with, but go on.” I rolled my eyes.
“And then he went on about line of succession and asked who’d stand a chance up against Sean, and I said no one.”
“But a few months ago Aiden got a little drunk at one of the games and said how your pops told him how good he’d be at running things. Oscar said…” Finn exhaled loudly.
“Oscar said what?” I narrowed my gaze, not loving where this was going.
“Oscar said the only way he’d get backing is if he was the last in the bloodline.”
Lorcan followed that up with, “Which if you died, Aiden would be who we’d all expect to take over.”
I tried to calm my temper. It wasn’t Oscar’s fault for answering questions. Who would think Aiden of all people would go on a rampage just for power?
“Why Aine?”
Finn shook his head. “I can’t answer that.”
I nodded. “Then it looks like I’m going to have to go hunting and get the answer for myself.”
