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Nick opened his mouth and closed it again. I could practically hear him thinking on his feet in that moment.
“We were… keeping them busy,” he eventually offered, with a look on his face like he had signed up for national service.
“It’s true,” his still nameless accomplice agreed.
“They saw you and Paddy, then looked at me. You know we look similar and you can’t argue with our family genetics. I noticed them pulling their cells out and they started taking pictures. When they took a picture of you and Daisy kissing on the dance floor, I felt I should do something,” my nephew added, trying again to appease me.
“Oh, so you were going to fuck them to protect my identity?” I threw my head back and laughed. “I’ve heard some tall stories in my day, but this one?” I laughed again.
Both boys stared at one another like they couldn’t see the funny side of what Nick had said. I sighed, figuring I should at least cut them some slack as neither of them had gotten laid.
“Right, zip up those flies and we’ll revisit this tomorrow. It’s getting close to midnight.”
I waited for them to make themselves decent, locked the cellar door and took them back to the party.
Chapter 18
Back at the bar, I caught my girl’s attention as she was heading back behind the bar. “Baby, did you leave the TV on upstairs in your apartment? I heard music as we were coming back.”
Daisy frowned, alarmed by my question. “No, I switched everything off. You were the last person up there. Hang on, let me go check.”
Grabbing her wrist, I stopped her. “You’re not going up there alone. I’m coming with you,” I insisted, pulling my cell out to check the time. It was ten minutes until midnight.
“It’s fine, just wait here, it’s probably the TV. It goes off after a couple of hours if I don’t reset it, but I may just have paused it and it could have come back on.”
Daisy ran up the stairs before I could hold her back, but I heard her stop suddenly, turn and retrace her steps down the stairs. She looked shocked as she tiptoed toward me.
“Holy mother of God, Jamie, it’s Catrina and Terry.”
Pushing past her, I began heading up the stairs, but Daisy pulled heavily on my jacket, in her effort to stop me. When I reached the spare bedroom, moaning noises came from where I had previously slept, and I obviously hadn’t considered what I may find when I’d partly pushed open the door. Although it was dark, I still made out the back of Terry’s head, buried between my sister’s legs.
As if I’d been shot, I flew back from the door and fell over Daisy’s feet who had still been standing behind me. We both stopped and held our breaths but when I heard my sister moan again, I knew we hadn’t disturbed them. I covered my ears and we hurried back down the stairs.
“Fecking hell, Jamie,” Daisy hissed. “I had no idea—”
“Fuck.” It was the only word that came to mind, too stunned to think how to handle what I’d seen. The image was burned in my brain and I knew I would never unsee it. It had felt far more traumatic catching my sister than it was when I’d caught my parents having sex when I was twelve.
“Well, I suppose they’ll get to that,” Daisy mused, obviously trying to lighten the mood.
“What?” I asked, confused.
“Fuck… that may be next on their to-do list.”
“Jesus, I don’t know what to say,” I said, still stunned. “I mean, she’s a big girl…” I trailed off still lost for words.
Daisy chuckled. “They’re adults,” she threw back at me, like the comment I’d made toward her when her sisters had been involved with my nephews.
“What should we do?” she asked, but before I could think, we heard movement from up above. Like two kids afraid to get caught, we scurried out of the bar and headed back up to the dance.
At four minutes until midnight Terry was back behind the bar. Seconds later Cat cut through the crowd, smiling innocently, without a hair out of place. She took her seat beside Daisy’s mom and I could hardly bear to look at her.
“Where have you been?” Ryan asked. Both Daisy and I glanced at one another before our eyes automatically glanced at my sister.
“I snuck out for a few minutes and went to Daisy’s apartment. I just needed to catch my breath,” she remarked, staring Ryan straight in the eye.
“And did you?” I asked, unable to keep myself from pressing the point.
Cat nodded, her eyes flitting briefly toward the bar. “I did, thanks, it was just what the doctor ordered.”
