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The only remorse Kev felt was for the fact that he now found himself on the sour end of our parents’ good graces.
#embarassing
“Joey’s my best friend.” I looked around the table, imploring our parents to hear me. “We’ve known each other since we were twelve. So, when he says that he’ll be there for me, I believe him and all of you should too. Because his word is good.”
“I’ve loved your daughter for six years,” Joey finally broke his silence by saying. “I can easily love her for another eighteen.”
So, don’t fucking sit there and pretend that I’m incapable of being a good father to my kid when that’s exactly what I’ve been doing for yours since I was twelve!”
“This isn’t me walking away from my responsibilities. This is me walking away from a murder charge.” Blowing out a frustrated breath, he tenderly tipped my chin up with his knuckles and said, “Are you with me?” Out of my chair and up on my feet in seconds, I was moving for the door with my hand firmly entwined with his. “Oh, I am so with you.”
YESSSSS
Difference is, those girls had to do it alone.” I paused to point at Molloy before adding, “Aoife has me, and I have no intention of going quietly.”
“Joe, it’s me, Shannon. I’m on the way to Dublin with the school. I won’t be back until late tonight. Can you tell Mam? He has my phone so don’t call it, okay? You won’t be able to get ahold of me, but I’m okay, Joe. Don’t worry about—”
The best and worst day of her life.
if you ever consider laying so much as a finger on my daughter or that child—” “You wouldn’t have to kill me, Tony,” I cut him off and said. “I’d do it myself.”
“I’m not saying that I think you’d do it,” he offered. “But you’re—” “I’m my father’s son,” I filled in flatly. “I get it.”
Why does EVERYONE in some way, shape, or from compare him to his dad?
My sister was lying in a heap on the floor, and instead of going to her, Mam was trying to protect him.
“Don’t fucking speak to her, creep!” I roared, taking a protective stance in front of the chair my sister was slumped on when that bastard tried to speak to her. “I will kill you. Do ya hear me? I will slit your fucking throat if you so much as look at my sister again!”
“Him or us!”
“I want you to know that I hate you right now more than I have ever hated him. I want you to know that you are no longer my mother—not that I ever had one of those to begin with.”
I’ll burn this fucking house to the ground with you and your cunts in it before I let ya go!”
:(
I couldn’t leave him. I never would.
“Hey, stud.” “Hey, queen.” His voice was raspy and torn. “Nice legs.” I choked out a sob. “Nice everything.”
“I’m your mother.” “And she’s the mother of my kid. So, don’t even think about pulling that card,” he sneered. “Because she wins. Every damn time.”
ABSOFREAKINGLUTELY
“Are there any allergies in your family or your partner’s family?” “I have an intolerance to bullshit if that counts?”
Johnny Kavanagh was standing here, in the middle of all of my family’s bullshit, and he wasn’t running. Something about him reminded me of Molloy and I frowned.
“Good job, stud.” “Don’t go, queen.” “I won’t.” “Stay with me.” “Always.”
“I’ve got your back, Mrs. Joey the hurler.”
I just love Gibsie
84 Mrs. Kavanagh
MAMMY K
it, I knew in my heart that I didn’t have anything left to give her. I was empty. I was done.
Yeah, he knew things alright. Things no boy of his age should know or be subjected to.
Tadhg 💔
“My dad can go fuck himself,” Little Alpha called over his shoulder as he climbed onto a wheely bin and vaulted effortlessly onto the stone wall enclosing the smoking area. “If anything, he needs to hope he doesn’t run into me.” “Tadhg, hold up—” “I’ll be seeing ya,”
Tadhg is literally Joey
“He’s always saving me,” she whispered, releasing her hold on me. “I wish I could do the same for him.” Yeah, me, too.
“Nothing’s going to hurt you, baby.”
“I tried to warn you,” he slurred. “You didn’t hear me and now we’re both fucked.”
Joey had well and truly checked out on life. He was my closest friend, and I felt his absence everywhere I went and in everything I did. I felt his withdrawal in the deepest corners of my heart.
“Remember this moment,” she added quietly. “Remember what I looked like the day you broke my heart.”
We’re going to die in that house, Molloy.”
I’ve got this awful feeling that it’s too late for me.”
Lynchy: Do you plan on giving them back? Kavanagh: I guess.
??
Like I gave a fuck. I was here for two reasons. The blond at my desk and the baby in her belly.
I know that's right
“Hey, stud.” “Hey, queen.” “Nice shirt.” “Nice legs.”
“But I’m…trying.” To give this girl what she needed. What she deserved.
she did the unspeakable; she put her hands on my man. Oh hell to the no.
QUEEN AOIFE
“Who the hell are you?” Bella demanded, casting a menacing glare in my direction. Oh, you poor, sweet summer child. “Oh, I’m your worst nightmare, bitch,”
Pregnant btw
“Rule number one, you boundary-absent, morally lacking, conniving bitch: If you put hands on another girl’s fella, make damn sure you know how to throw a punch!”
Six years. Six long-ass years I had watched Joey Lynch take beating after beating. Seeing Bella put hands on that boy had been the straw that broke the camel’s back in my mind.
“I’ll be seeing ya, Molloy,”
“You’ve won yourself a fan, Joey Lynch.”
John Kavanagh not only had my case thrown out, but had somehow managed to coerce a judge—a fucking judge—to take pity on me enough to apologize to me.
WE LOVE YOU DADDY K
“Jesus, Mary, Joseph, and the donkey,”
Not Jesus, just Joey
“They deserve a better life than the one they’ve been dealt.” Swallowing roughly, I forced myself to say, “They deserve to have parents.”
“When did it happen?” Edel asked once her husband had left the room. “When did what happen?” “When did you lose yourself?” “The day I was born.”
“And Bella will not be returning to Tommen to finish out the school year.”
Music to my ears
The familiar sound of his voice had every muscle in my body locking tight in fearful anticipation.
