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“Yeah,” Aideen said with a shake of her head. “He thinks he can explain everythin’ to ‘im. He’ll probably wait until Damien’s lunch break is over, and I don’t want this confrontation to happen at the shop. Dante, the fuckin’ eejit will talk about his and Lana’s sex life, and Damien will try to kill ‘im. Oh God, Kane!”

Aideen spun to her one and only, and he instantly invaded her space, kissed her forehead and said, “We’re on it.”

Kane, Alec, and Ryder left the kitchen, while Dominic lingered by my sister when she re-entered the room without Alannah.

“She’s gone home and wouldn’t let me go with ‘er. She’s already a mess about ‘er da’s affair, and how to handle that, but this will rip ‘er apart unless we help fix this.”

“This is so bad,” Keela said.

“Go with your brothers to talk Damien down,” Bronagh said to Dominic as she wiped her puffy red eyes and took Georgie from him. “You know how he feels about Alannah. We have to stop this before he goes too far.”

He hesitated. “Are you sure?”

“Don’t worry about me. It’s been weeks since Georgie weaned. I miss the closeness I had with ‘er when she nursed, but I’m good now. You’ve helped me through this, and Branna and the girls have me back when you aren’t ‘ere. We’re goin’ to be parents again too. I’m better than I’ve ever been.”

Dominic exhaled a deep breath. “Thank God. I knew you were going through a tough time, and I tried my best to be patient with you, but hell, you were such an asshole these past few weeks.”

“Did you just call me an arsehole?” Bronagh said, her attention focused completely on her fiancé.

“Hell no,” he quickly replied when he realised his slipup. “I said your ass is goals.”

Bronagh’s lips twitched. “Nice save, dickhead.”

He teasingly grinned. “You’ll give my dick head? Fantastic!”

He reached for Bronagh, but she jumped away from him, giggling. Georgie squealed with delight and clapped her hands together.

“Go help your brother!” She nudged him. “We’ll get to work on how we can help things on Alannah’s end.”

I looked at the pair and shook my head, smiling from ear to ear. Dominic got a few kisses out of Bronagh and an arse grab, of course, and cuddles from his daughter before he left with his brothers to seek out Damien and get knee-deep into his problems. Many new things were happening to our group—some big changes and some little ones—but it was nice to see that at least some things never changed. No matter what any one of us went through, I knew I could always count on us pulling together to help one another out. We weren’t just friends; we were more than that.

We were family, and we’d go to the ends of the Earth for one another.





Here is a sneak peek at the first chapter of



DAMIEN



Releasing in 2017





PROLOGUE



Five and a half years ago…



Being everyone’s friend sucks donkey balls.

I thought about it as I twirled the ends of my black hair around my fingers and stared up at the ceiling. The bed I was lying on suddenly dipped, pulling me from my thoughts and causing me to flinch at the disruption of my peace and quiet. I glanced at my best friend, who had one hand on her bed to balance herself while she put on her high heels with the other.

Bronagh Murphy was my opposite in every way. When she wasn’t pretending she was invisible—she was loud, sassy, and had a solid backbone. She was funny too, and though she didn’t think so, she had a banging body.

My and Bronagh’s pairing was an odd one, and we hadn’t always been friends. In fact, it was only over the past few weeks that we decided to give the friendship thing a real go after I was attacked by the school bully, and Bronagh defended me. After that, we quickly found we were, in fact, BFFs and just had to hang out all the time.

We were a work in progress for Bronagh, though. I wasn’t exactly a social butterfly, I could make friends easily enough when I wanted to, but Bronagh couldn’t. She had trust issues, and landing a spot as her friend was a miracle in its own right. I had been in her class for all of secondary school and often saw her around primary school, but I never really knew her. No one did… until Dominic and Damien Slater moved to our town, got lumped into our tutor class and, quite literally, cornered her until she had no choice but to come out swinging.

Damien Slater, my mind drifted. Where do I start with Damien Slater?

I licked my lips and exhaled.

Damien was… my God—he was perfect. He was drop-dead gorgeous, tall, had an accent, and he made me laugh. He was an identical twin, but to me, he was nothing like his brother Dominic. I knew from the moment I saw him on his first day in school a few months ago that I would secretly obsess over him. I just didn’t know I’d be obsessing twenty-four-bloody-seven over him.