Page 57 of My Pleasure

“My mate has been creating nutritional meals for the kids to ‘test’,” Caiden explained.

Rory made more notes on his phone. “I’ll need an interview with you too, Genevieve. I want everyone to know your side of the story, not just the one-sided narrative they been given.”

“If you think it’ll help,” she replied.

Caiden sat back watching the machinations happening around the table. “Thank you for helping us. To be honest, without someone to fight, I feel pretty useless.”

Meryn growled an adorable little growl. “Tell me about it! They don’t even use technology. They have crystals, and scrolls, and shit. I feel ass out.”

“We have you covered,” Augustus said.

Meryn turned to Elder Ironwood, who was sipping his wine. “Where is Auntie?”

“Lily? She’s in Éire Danu with Amelia,” Marshall smiled. “Darian wasn’t exaggerating. My poor daughter has been all over the place lately.”

Aiden looked down at Meryn. “She wasn’t like that when she was first pregnant.”

“Neither was Lily. I bet Darian would give anything to be able to ask your father a thing or two, Meryn,” Marshall said.

“You think Amelia is acting like my mom when she was pregnant with me?”

Marshall nodded. “I’d put money on it.”

“We have a couple spheres we haven’t opened yet. I wonder if any of them show mom when she was pregnant.”

“Let us know whenever you want to look at more. Your Aunt wants to see them all,” Marshall told her.

Kiera sighed. “I wish I had recordings of my parents. We always assumed we’d have more time.”

“I wish I had an assistant,” Rory complained, setting his phone down.

“My friend Kari has a company that assigns those out,” Meryn offered.

Rory nodded. “We’ve actually looked into her services before. The problem is that me and my brothers are a bit eclectic, so no one assistant would do and we don’t really need four.”

Meryn turned and looked at Kiera, then back to Rory. “What about her?”

“Me?” Kiera squeaked.

“Didn’t you say you were like a Jack of All Trades?” Meryn looked to Rory. “Could that help?”

Rory exchanged looks with Augustus, Connor and Eoin. They all looked excited.

“Have you done paralegal work?” Augustus asked.

She nodded.

“Any type of work as a secretary or personal assistant?”

“Yes.”

“It’s too good to be true,” Rory said.

“What else have you done that could help our businesses?” Connor asked.

Kiera held up a hand and began ticking things off. “Photography, online social media organization, and content creation. Oh, and I worked as a barista for a while.”

“Do you need a job?” Augustus asked.