Kieran by Kassanna

Author:Kassanna [Kassanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Flavoroflove Unlimited
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

“Shannon, I’ve taken care of everything on my end.” Kieran peered at the image of his brother on the screen.

“We’ll close the businesses soon.” The synchronization on the videoconference was off, and the picture wasn’t keeping up with the conversation.

“It’s time. Negotiations have gone on long enough. I’ll get in touch with you when I hear from Fionn and Conall.” Their discussion could be taken as anything since they never spoke in specifics. He set the device down and gazed out the floor-to-ceiling window in his office. “Remember, Danny Boy and I have a separate arrangement.”

“However you need to get the job done.” Shannon’s face grew large on the screen. “Some things that need my attention have come up.”

“Later.” Kieran hovered his finger over the tablet.

“Yeah.” The screen faded to black.

His office was on the twelfth floor of the Prudential Building overlooking Newbury Street. On paper, O’Shea and Partners was a prestigious law firm. He snorted. They handled local celebrity divorces and represented the top area business, but that was a cover for who he truly wanted to help. The city’s underbelly, gangsters, thieves, men like himself who walked the shady area between right and wrong. People like his brothers and to a certain extent his friends.

Kieran stared into the bright blue, cloudless sky. Who was he kidding? There was no honor among criminals. Other than his siblings, he gave less than a damn if someone served time. It was, however, bad business to lose cases, so he and the other attorneys busted ass to keep folks out of prison. It was a win/win situation for him. He could help Shannon, Conall and Fionn with legal matters--protect them from the bullshit laws they tended to break. At the same time, it allowed him to lead his family in a new direction--legitimacy. Business was a cutthroat affair anyway and to a certain degree even upstanding corporations sometimes dipped their toes into illegal matters. His job was to make sure they didn’t get caught, and, if they did, to get the bastards the hell off without repercussions. If he could do that for strangers, handling that for his siblings was a cakewalk. His competitive nature and desire to win along with the long list of crooks that kept him on retainer earned him a reputation that was less than stellar. Who gave a shit? In the end, he was the best and, good or bad, the first one called when someone was in trouble.

He didn’t hide his family relations, or his ties to the area’s less desirable personalities. They were a part of him, connections that had a part in molding him into the man he’d become. The core of his personality was born of hatred and abuse that he learned to mask at an early age. It was the things he learned later that might actually have helped him develop a conscience--sort of. Shit taught to him by watching shady motherfuckers like Roscoe that overrode the psychopathic tendencies ingrained in him by his father.

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