Page 100 of Sinful King

He shook his head and I stared at him expectantly.

“They followed Landell up to Ithaca,” he revealed, arms crossed. “I didn’t get all the details but I gave them my code to the ranch.”

Something about that agitated me more.

“Did they use it yet?”

I knew he checked already and got my confirmation when his little smirk turned into a frown.

“Nah. Not yet. Got a feeling plans changed…” he slid into the front seat of the ATV. “Ain’t shit we can do about it right now. Tell him to get the fuck in, Tadhg. We got shit to do and places to be.”

Tadhg, while staring at his phone, repeated Finn’s word, “Get the fuck in. We got shit to do and places to be…” he looked up as I passed to hop in the back. “I need to see ZiZi. She’ll deal with me if y’all are there.”

He drove us back to the office and we switched from the ATV to the truck we’d come here in. I’d given Lorcan and Liam the day off.

“She ain’t speaking to you either?” Finn asked. “You sure this just about having a baby? Maybe you ain’t been paying her enough attention.”

“It ain’t that.”

I tuned them out and scrolled through the listings the real estate agent sent. None of the previous options were good enough. And even though we could build something upstate near my parents, Blair and I preferred the city.

All of our memories were here.

“Should I buy a brownstone, gut it and let Blair turn it into what she wants? Or build some shit upstate?”

Finn looked back from the passenger seat.

“Can we deal with one problem at a time? Did you hear what this fool said?”

I put my phone down and met eyes with Tadhg in the mirror, already over his marital problems. Not because I didn’t care but because it felt like he wanted to suffer alone.

“Even if I wanted to change my mind about kids, I can’t,” he said, focusing on the road. “Got my shit snipped before I met, Zi.”

“And he never told her,” Finn added, giving me the most important detail. “I get it. You thought y’all had an agreement but that’s some shit you tell the person you want to marry.”

“You do know you can get that shit reversed, right?” I asked, to be sure I was understanding correctly.

He nodded, eyes meeting mine briefly.

“Ain’t no guarantee we’ll conceive, and honestly, I’m not interested in trying.”

Ah.

“It’s sounding like you need to let her go,” I said, earning a glare I could care less about. “You lied by omission for eight years about a vasectomy. She changed her mind about kids after all that time. What that sound like to you, Finn?”

“Sounds like Zi wasn’t honest either, probably thought after some time you’d agree.”

Tadhg sighed and I picked up my vibrating phone, swiping the screen quickly at the sight of Siobhan’s name.

“What’s wrong, Von?”

She huffed into the phone.

“I’m about to murder everybody in this bitch, Sean,” she said. “Is my brother or sister with you? I need to talk to one of them but neither are answering their phone. Something happening I need to know about?”

I ignored her last question.

“Talk to me first.”

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