Irish Promises

Chapter Thirty-Eight

Hugh

"I don't know how you can stand to see her fucking face everyday knowing what she's up to" Blake hisses as he watches Lydia waltz around the office without a care in the world.

In all honesty it's been no easy feet.

Going against me and my brothers is one thing but something about the fact she's also gone against Anastasia hits me somewhere I hadn't even known had existed.

I've always vowed to never harm a woman in the way I've imagined harming her over these last few weeks.

The only reason she's alive and breathing, still waltzing around out there is because I need her to continue feeding information back to Volkov. There's also the fact I can't lab on leaving it to Anastasia to decide what happens to her.

I'd also be lying if I said I wasn't looking forward to seeing what creative ways she'll come up with to deal with Lydia.

No doubt they'll be ridiculously outlandish and completely overboard but she'll get exactly what she wants.

This is one thing I won't battle her on.

"It's not as easy as it looks trust me" I say to Blake tucking my phone back in my pocket.

"The twins lost their tail" I then informing him feeding back the message I just received from Finn.

"So they get to lose their but I have to let mine stick with me?" He asks clearly not happy, especially with his disgusted tone.

He's still not best pleased with any of this and yet again has resorted to sulking like he does every time Anastasia isn't around.

I expect it from the twins but I had thought he'd pull his shit together knowing that the only reason Anastasia is with Volkov is so he can be removed from the equation once and for all.

His fear of losing her for good is stopping him from actually thinking logically.

"With four of us it's too many moving parts for him to keep track of, losing track of the twins won't be a big deal to him. He won't see them as a threat but if his tails lose us all he'll get suspicious" I explain and I can't already see from his expression that it's going in one ear and right out of the other.

"We carry on as normal whilst Anastasia does what she needs to" I say and that causes him to scoff.

"Yeah because that instils me with a world of confidence" he grumbles.

"She knows what she's doing Blake, the twins have made sure she'll have everything she needs" I explain hoping he snaps out of it.

Me and Anastasia had planned for this.

Everything is set out, she knows exactly what to do and she'll let me know when the time is right. For the first time in my life I'm willingly letting someone else have control and that's because I have every faith she'll be able to pull this off.

"Yeah well once this shit is over and done with I want a week" he snaps and that does have me pinching my brows together as I look over to him.

"A week?" I ask, not getting it.

"Yeah a week" he grunts with a nod and then crosses his arms like he's back to being a stroppy fucking teenager again. "I want her all to myself for a week, I want to take her away"

At that I do laugh even though I can see he's completely serious.

"The twins won't like it and will never agree to that" I scoff but in truth there's no fucking way I'm letting him swan off with her for a whole week.

"I don't give a shit they can have their time with her too if they want it which I'm sure they will. But this is twice she's been gone and I plan on making up for the lost time" he says and then lowers his head. "I'll need this Hugh" he then says.

I get it.

I think we've all been through enough shit and put up with enough to last us a lifetime over these last few months. I don't blame him for wanted to have time with her alone. I really don't but a week isn't fucking happening and I know the twins will agree with me on that one.

"Three days" I offer as a compromise and I can already tell she's going to try and battle me on it before he even opens his mouth.

"No get fucked it's not your choice it's hers and I'll be convincing her to go for the full week" he snaps back and I can't believe that amongst everything that's going on this is what we're arguing about.

Thankfully my phone rings cutting the argument short. I pull it out of my pocket seeing Cian's name flash up and answer it. But no before I get the final word in with Blake.

"Three days" I says and then move on to talking to Cian not giving him a chance to say anymore.