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She dashed a tear away as she looked at me. “Your head is bleeding. Did you get shot?”
I reached up to touch my forehead and felt the sticky warmth of blood on my fingertips. “No,” I said quickly. “I hit my head on the steering wheel when it rolled.”
She stepped on the gas and started driving. I pointed to a laneway for a farmer’s field and said, “Turn around here.”
She didn’t, she just kept driving in the wrong direction. “Why are we going this way? The barn is back there!”
“Because everyone in the barn is dead. I don’t know what the hell Declan was thinking.”
“Neither do I,” I murmured. “Head back to the estate.”
Chapter 31
Rory
“Why the fuck did you bring the truck with the weapons to our home?” Declan roared.
I flinched at Declan’s thunderous voice, my head throbbing from the crash. We’d barely made it through the estate gates when he stormed out of the house. Once we pulled up out front, I could see his face twisted with rage.
“I didn’t have a choice,” I shot back, climbing out of the truck. “They were onto us. Everyone in the barn was dead.”
Kat cut the engine and joined us, her eyes darting nervously between Declan and me. “What’s going on? Who were those men?”
Declan ignored her, stepping closer to me. “You’ve put everything at risk. Everything we’ve worked for!”
“I saved our asses, that’s what I did,” I growled,my patience wearing thin. “If I hadn’t taken out those two, we’d all be in body bags right now.”
His eyes widened. “You killed them?”
“I had to,” I said, my voice dropping. “They would have killed me, then Kat and then come for everyone in this house.”
Declan ran a hand through his hair, pacing in agitated circles. “This is bad. This is very, very bad.”
“We need to move the weapons,” Kat interrupted. “If they traced us here—”
“They didn’t,” I assured her. “I made sure of that.”
Declan stopped pacing and fixed me with a hard stare. “How can you be so sure?”
I met his gaze steadily. “Because I recognized one of them. It was Cameron Finn’s crew. They work alone, and they don’t leave loose ends.”
A heavy silence fell over us as the implications sank in. We’d just made an enemy of one of the most dangerous crime families in Ireland… our own Clan.
“Get the weapons inside,” Declan finally said, his voice tight. “We need to regroup and figure out our next move.”
I touched the dried blood on my forehead, suddenly aware of how I must look. “What aboutthe bodies at the barn?”
Declan’s eyes hardened. “I’ll make a call and send in the cleaners. You two stay here, lay low. And for God’s sake, don’t answer the door or your phones. They have both of your phone numbers.”
As he started to walk towards the house, I grabbed his arms. “Why the fuck would you tell them anything about us?”
He looked pointedly at my hand. Under normal circumstances I would take a bullet for that man, but this wasn’t normal. It was uncalled for.
“They insisted on knowing who was handling the situation,” he said, shaking my hand off. Without another word, he walked into the house, and I caught Kat’s worried gaze. “What have we gotten ourselves into?” she whispered.
I wished I had an answer for her. Instead, I took hold of Kat’s hand and led the way to the library straight to the liquor cabinet and poured two generous glasses of whiskey and handed her one.
Kat
