“Good and I hope that terrible woman is burning in hell,” Colin snapped.
Finn crossed his legs and gave him a nod.“Oh aye, she will be soon enough, but she’s also got another worry to be thinking of.”
“And what worry would that be?”Colin asked.
“When Shay here arrested her, he confiscated inventory from her warehouses.Some of that stuff wasn’t just hers and she claimed some bad men would come after her for losing their shit.Shay is working on locating them but she’s sitting in a prison cell about now.”
Colin nodded as he looked relieved.“So now, we only have to worry about Shanon.”
“Seems to be so.”Liam sighed.“Since this all started, we’ve been very lucky to have good people step up and help us get it done.”
“In Boston,” Seamus mentioned as he nodded at Shay.“We had Leon Vinciti helping with his men.Then Shay comes along and he literally ended the threat with his copter.Then in New Orleans we had the Bratva come along and they helped too.Though they had their own score to settle.Same in New York.”
Liam nodded.“So now, we can almost see the finish line.”
“Aye, brothers, it's almost in sight now but this may not be the final battle we fight.”Finn shook his head.“I’m hoping it is but you never know what the future will bring.”
“And just when did you say the others were coming?”Colin asked.
“They should be here later tonight or tomorrow morning,” Liam told him.“Timmy and his boys will be around tomorrow morning so we’ll possibly have an idea as to where Shanon is holding up.”
Sinead stepped forward and suggested, “There might be another person that would know where this hateful woman is hiding.”
Colin asked her, “Who would that be, daughter?”
“Gretchen Bannon,” Sinead spoke quietly.
Lora gasped quietly beside Colin and her hold on his hand tightened.
Colin looked at his wife, then at his daughter.“And just who is Gretchen Bannon?”
“She’s someone I’ve gotten to know recently,” Sinead told him.
Siobahn nodded.“She lives on the streets but she’s a good person.”
Colin looked back over at his wife.“And you know her as well?”
Lora shook her head.“Not really.”She shrugged.“I mean I’ve seen her with Sinead but I never met her in person.”
“And just how did you meet her?”Colin looked back at his daughter.
Sinead stood tall and she looked her da in the eyes and told him, “One day about three weeks ago, I was leaving the café when someone ran into me, the guy dumped coffee all over me and then began to dress me down saying to watch where I was going and blah, blah.Like him running into me was my fault!Then suddenly, Gretchen was there dressing him down, telling him she’d seen everything and the fault was his, not mine.She really tore into him and when he sneered at her telling her to crawl back into the hole she was living in, she practically attacked him.”Sinead grinned.“She’s got a mouth on her that could take paint off a wall but she drew a crowd.They all heard how he was picking on little ole me and then insulting her when he was the bully.And that just embarrassed the hell out of the guy.He finally slunk away like a guilty dog with his tail tucked between his legs.”Sinead burst into laughter, then snorted.“And he deserved every minute of the rebuke.So her and I have been meeting up whenever we can since then.She’s a real hoot.”
Everyone in the room was smiling.
