Chapter 11

After getting off the phone with her uncle, Rachel walked over to the guys and sat down on Murphy’s lap as a news bulletin came up on the screen and her uncle appeared talking to the press. Murphy, Rachel, and Connor all shared a look while Rocco continued to watch what had to be said. “Fucking hell,” Murph said from behind Rachel as Rocco turned off the TV and lit a cigarette. “What,” Rocco asked looking back, “he’s got nothing.” Rachel watched and listened as Rocco, Connor, and Murphy discussed her uncle and she went stiff when Rocco called him a liability but relaxed a little when both Connor and Murphy said he wasn’t to be touched for he was a good man. She relaxed even more when she felt Murphy rubbing his hand up and down her arm where Rocco couldn’t see because Rocco didn’t know that Agent Paul Smecker was Rachel’s uncle.


“Come let’s all go to bed,” Connor said after a few moments, “need an early start tomorrow.” “Ok,” Murphy said as Rachel looked back at him and smiled. “Tá súil agam go bhfuil tú do sheomra féin,” Rachel said smiling widely as she stood up and held out her hand for Murphy. “You’ve been practicing your Irish,” Murphy said with a grin just as wide as Rachel’s as he took her hand. “Good night Connor,” Rachel said smiling as she let Murphy lead the way to the bedroom, “good night Rocco.” “Don’t go making too much noise,” Connor said as Rachel’s face went red, “we all want to get some sleep ya know.” “Fuck you,” Murphy said as he started laughing, continuing to lead Rachel towards the bedroom he was going to claim his for the night.


The next morning, Rachel woke after everyone else had already gotten up. “Why didn’t you wake me,” she asked when she walked into the living room where they sat after she got dressed. “Didn’t have the heart to disturb you,” Murphy said smiling over at her as he got up and greeted her with a light peck, “you were sleeping so peacefully.” “Oh whatever Murphy,” she said laughing as she pulled back smiling, “so what’s the plan for today?” “We’re going to go to the church for a little bit,” Connor said as Rachel looked around Murphy to look at him, “care to join us this morning?” “Sure,” she said smiling as she then looked back at Murphy, “when we going?” “We were waiting on you to wake up,” Murphy said smiling, “didn’t want to leave you here and not know where we were.” “Well let’s go then,” she said laughing as she looked around at everyone.


When they got into the car to head to the church, Murphy kept insisting that he sit in the back with Rachel but she told him not to worry about it. She knew nothing would happen between her and Connor, he basically really was like a brother to her and she couldn’t see anything like with her and Murphy. He still wasn’t happy but he finally gave up on trying to talk her into letting him sit in the back with her. Didn’t mean he wasn’t watching every move his brother made the entire car ride to the church through the rear view mirror. She caught his eye once, when he was watching her through the mirror, and smiled knowingly at him to try and at least ease his jealousy about his brother. She looked over at Connor who was looking out the window. “Your brother is very jealous of you right now,” she whispered to him as he looked back at her. “I know,” he said smiling, “but I know you’re his.” “I know,” she said smiling as they finally pulled up to the church.


In the church, Rachel found herself between the brothers with her head bowed with them and just listening to their prayers they were saying. She wasn’t much of a religious girl, but she’d be willing to do anything for Murphy and for Connor as well. A few minutes after they were in there, Rachel noticed from beside her, Connor stood up from beside her. “Where you goin’,” she whispered looking up and over at him. “I’ll be right back,” he whispered the walked off. Rachel looked ahead to where he was headed and noticed Rocco had walked into the church and was over at the confessional with the priest walking over to him. She watched as Rocco grabbed the priest by the back of his collar and entered in with him as Connor picked up his pace to get to the confessional.


She continued to watch, while Murphy continued on with his prayer, as Connor went into one of the chambers for what seemed like forever. After Murphy finally finished his prayer, that’s when she noticed who walked out of one of the chambers, her uncle. She suddenly remember the conversation last night between Connor, Murph, and Rocco and now she knew why she had seen Rocco and why Connor had hurried to where Rocco was headed. “C’mon,” Murphy said standing up and snapping her attention away from the confessional. “Ok,” she said standing up and leading the way out of the pew. As they got closer, Rocco finally emerged and wrapped his arm around Murphy’s neck smiling. “The Lord works in mysterious ways,” he said looking from Murph over to Rachel. “The fuck that supposed to mean,” Murphy asked as they walked out of the church.


Tá súil agam go bhfuil tú do sheomra féin means I hope you have your own room in Irish....if I'm wrong on that translation then I apologize cause I used a website for it...

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