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“Nothing”

I thought so

One day she would thank me for this

SEDRIC

FOURTEEN YEARS AGO

“Lia to lunch in the next hour with Neal and Declan, would you like to come?” Evelyn asked, more like pleaded with him to come

Liam sat, surrounded by books, in the corner of round, and his back rested against the bookcase He paused for a aze

“Thank you, mother, but I already had lunch,” he replied as if he had no emotions to spare her

“Well then, I will leave you both to do whatever it is you do in this dungeon” She grinned at me and I tried to return the smile, but for some reason I couldn’t

“I will call you later,” I said, when she kissed

It was only when the door closed that I walked over to his corner and smacked him over the head

“Ouch! What in the—”

“Why hed, as I took a seat beside hiood traits froainst family—”

“I’e”

I stared at him, my son It was almost funny hoell he could read other people, but failed to understand himself

“You’re still mad at her…”

“No, I’m not—”

“I’m still mad at her too so his eyes whilst his grip on John Steinbeck’s In Search of Ahtened “I try not to think about it The years she spent pushing all of us away How you had to—”

“I’m fine,” he snapped

“So fine you can’t let me finish a sentence?”

He took a deep breath

“Be the bigger o She wasn’t there for you as a boy, I know, but let it go and love her more for the fact that she desperately wants to be there for you now You’re never too old for a mother”

“I thought you said I was like you? You always give advice you don’t take” The se to smack him once more

“We have dinner as a faht”

“Ugh, dad! Don’t say that, it sounds like you’re talking about sex” His face scrunched up before he buried it into the book

Grabbing his head in a lock, I pulled him towards me “That’s not what I meant, you idiot”

He pushed hed

“But we do that too”

“Seriously! E…stop sharing please,” he begged, and I laughed again as he cringed

“Everything we have, and everything I do, is for family, Liam The Irish Clans, our personal blood, no matter how badly they hurt us or let us down, family is the only safe haven we have from this life This all started because no one took care of us…they called us Irish ether, survived, and noe stand together so that we do not die alone That is the job of the Ceann na Conairte The only way you can do that is to…”

“Let it go,” he whispered, and I nodded

“Go have lunch, because if you don’t pass target practice tonight, you won’t eat until supper tomorrow”