At least he needn’t consider her the enemy anymore, since the dire secrets she’d been guarding had finally been exposed.
Should he consider her part of Conor’s family, too, on the basis of their budding relationship? That judgment call was even more difficult to make because, damn it, he genuinely liked her.
It was a thorny dilemma, and one that made Liam’s head ache.
Above all else, his first loyalty was to Conor. So Kiera Donovan would simply have to take second place. If he was doing her a disservice, then he’d have to find a way of making it up to her later. Assuming, after tonight’s explosive fireworks, there was a ‘later.’
He supposed it was up to him, as guardian of Conor’s physical and mental well-being, to ensure any chance of ‘later’ wasn’t irrevocably destroyed.
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