From the first moment we met, Alek was testing me.
“What do you run, a school for villains?”
Alek’s laughter rumbles loudly. “I run a very successful business with men I can trust, and I trust you, Puck Kelly.”
“Well, I sure as shite don’t trust you,” I counter because we’re not cool. He threw me under the bus, putting Shay’s life at risk in hopes I would pass his wee test. “My son could have been killed.”
“I wouldn’t have allowed it. We saw Sean’s only ally, Grady, give your son the vest. We knew he’d be protected.”
“You knew Sean had surrendered, yet ya didn’t say a word?” Alek had the power to save Sean, but he chose not to.
“That wasn’t my choice to make. It was yours. You’re far braver than me. I let my mother, who betrayed me as your father did to you, live. So even though this
