~Rowan’s Point of View~ “Too late,” I whisper, as I stare at my brother Mikey’s smokey remains, now flaking away into ash. This isn’t how our kind are supposed to go, and now Mikey’s sins will remain unresolved for all time. Our parents are going to be absolutely furious. Surely they felt his familial bond sever as we did. It also means that the head of the family would now be Conor; unless he refuses it, then it goes to whomever marries first. What a clusterfuck! It’s obvious he died violently, there’s blood everywhere and it's just damn gruesome. Something shiny and maybe… reflective is near his neck. We’ll have to inspect that later. Any relief I might have expected to feel at his death, doesn’t really come. An attack against a McGrath is a big f*****g deal. It means our family will

