Liam pulled Brooke aside, "Are you alright?" He asked, brushing the hair out of her face. She still had some blood on her skin. Brooke simply smiled. But Liam knew better. Brooke always had that smile on her face, letting people know that they didn't know anything about her – and that they never would. "Tell me the truth, love."

"What's to tell?" Brooke asked him. Liam sighed; Brooke moved forward and kissed him. "I'm fine, honestly.

"I just killed your father, Brooke." He reminded her.

"I know that." His eyes narrowed on hers. Brooke moved her arms around his neck. "What do you expect from me, Liam? Should I start sobbing, shaking? Am I supposed to be scared of you now? No, I'm not. I'm thankful for you. My father … did things a father shouldn't do to their daughter for years. And I never said anything – to anyone. I never planned on saying anything to anyone because' it's humiliating, Liam. Humiliating-" Her eyes began to swell with tears. Liam stopped her from saying anything else, moving his lips over hers.

"I should have done worse to him." He said as he wrapped his arms around Brooke's waist. "I should have gutted him alive." Brooke closed her eyes and snuggled in to his body. But when her eyes closed all she could think about was Chon. How he had reacted to hearing Liam killed her father – how he was ready to put a gun in Liam's mouth and end him for what he did – how he had hurt Aoibheann. She brushed those thoughts away. She needed to be on her A-game tonight. Darcie had invited her to dinner with Liam's family. She couldn't be thinking of Chon while she was eating dinner with Liam's family.

"Enough," She told him, not wanting to speak of anything further. "Let me shower and get beautiful for your family."

Liam grinned. "You're already beautiful, stunning, breathtaking, a shower wouldn't change that or make it happen."

"Yes, but after I take a shower I'll be;" She mimicked his accent next. "beautiful, stunning, breathtaking," Liam chuckled at her attempt of an Irish accent. "-without blood on me."

"Do you want me to join you?" He raised his brow. Brooke playfully rolled her eyes.

"No." She told him. "I'll be fine." Brooke gave him a quick kiss. "-Go spend time with your sister." She told him. "She's pretty great." Brooke smiled. And she wasn't lying. Aoibheann was willing to protect Chon, even after everything he did. Liam kissed the top of her head and then walked away, leaving her alone. She wondered how Chon was doing. She looked down at her phone to see twelve missed calls. But none of them were from Chon. They were all from Ben.

Chon was probably off beating himself up for what he did to Aoibheann. Brooke felt herself wanting to go to him. Brooke shook her head and stopped those thoughts. She needed to be here for Liam. Liam needed her tonight.

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"Ah, Sister there you are." Ryan said with a smile on his face as he watched his younger sister walk into the study. His eyes narrow as he noticed her wrist. "What happened?" Ryan glanced over at his grandfather to see that he also had a curious look on his face.

The young Irish women couldn't help but to roll her eyes. 'How many people am I going to have to lie to?' Aoibheann asked herself before she told both her brother and grandfather how she pushed herself to hard while rock climbing. She could tell that Ryan didn't believe a word that came out of her mouth.

After twenty minutes of the three talking, Ruari stood up, knowing it was time for their grandfather to leave. He had a meeting with a couple members of the IRA. "It was great seeing you, my darling." The old man said as he hugged his granddaughter. "Remember my sweet girl, you are loved." Ruari kissed Aoibheann on the forehead.

"I know." Was as she said before she exited the room to go get ready for dinner.

"Now Ryan, stay in college and look out for your sister. I am afraid that your father will now take his anger out on her."

Ryan clenched his hands to his side. "Over my dead fucking body."

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The family dinner started out normal, well as normal as it could be. Darcie sat at the head of the table, since he was the oldest, followed by Aoibheann and Ryan on his left, then Liam and Brooke on his right. No one had really said a word as the servants came out with soup, salad and more wine, until Ryan open his mouth.

"So are you going to ask Chon to our brother's wedding?" Ryan asked his little sister, as he glanced over at Brooke, waiting to see her face express.

At first Aoibheann didn't say anything, she just acted like she was chewing food as she thought about her brother's questions. Was she going with him still? Would he want to? "Yes, I am. Who are you going with?"

Ryan leaned back in his chair. "I'm glad you aske-"

Aoibheann cut Ryan off mid-sentence, "Going with Anna's little sister doesn't count." Ryan shot Liam a death glare, when he heard him chuckle.

"Very funny. I'm going with April."

"Is that the blonde girl, I've seen around the house?" Liam asked as he thought back to all the mornings when he would see a random blonde chick in the kitchen, barley wearing any clothes.

"Yes, she's a nurse." Ryan couldn't hide his grin.

"I see you have stepped up." Their father said. Even though he asked Ryan the questions his eyes were on Brooke.

Tried with hearing his two youngest children fighting, Darcie finally spoke up." Brooke please tell me that you go to college for have some time of job. I don't know if you know but my family is very powerful, with Brian being the top lawyer for both the FBI and CIA, his soon to be wife is a military psychologist for the pentagon. Liam is in the royal navy and is in the family business and Ryan is going to Brown, majoring in Business." Darcie glad at his daughter then back at Brooke as he said "Aoibheann here should be in her first year of college but she's taking the year off and she doesn't even have a job... just living off her brothers."

Before Brooke could open her mouth, Aoibheann spoke up. "Father, I plan on going to college. I want to be an art therapist." Aoibheann had came up with her career choice after she and Ophelia spent the day drawing tattoos and smoking weed.

"And what kind of fucking job is that!? You are just like your mother... weak, no common sense." The young girl avoided his eyes by looking down at her salad. She could deal with his psychical abuse. That came easy to her, because she could kill any man with a spoon if need be. The emotional abuse, well, that was a different story for her. "What would Colin think of this?"

Ryan was on the edge of his seat, ready to stab his father with the fork that he was gripping.

"I'm not feeling so well... please excuse me." Aoibheann looked over at Liam, who nodded his head. She couldn't be in the same room as her father anymore.

Darcie rolled his eyes as Aoibheann left the room, not bothering to look at Ryan. Instead he turned his attention to Brooke. "And you, Brooke? What do you do?"

Brooke didn't know how to answer him. She knew anything she said, Darcie wouldn't like. So she took a sip of her wine and cleared her throat after Aoibheann left the room. "I actually do not go to college." Brooke answered. "I went to Berkley for a semester but, things...didn't work out." She wasn't going to go in to detail about. "As for a job - I enjoy making clothes, I design a lot of my friends outfits." She told him, feeling somewhat proud of her answer. She smiled when she felt Liam take her hand in his.

Darcie took a drink of his wine as he listened to Brooke's answer. 'She's as bad as my daughter.' The older man thought. "Well that is...interesting.." Darcie was about to ask Brooke about his parents when his cell phone went off, telling him that it was a text message. As he quickly read it Darcie said, "I am needed. Brooke it was so lovely to meet you. Not as pretty as I hoped but I'm sure you make it up in other areas." Darcie already had a plan set in mind for Brooke. The older man stood up and started to walk out of the room, but stopped when he remembered how his daughter left dinner. "Liam get your sister's head on straight before the fucking wedding... I can't have her go and embarrassing me just like your mother does."

As soon as the front door of the house closed Ryan let out a heavy sigh, before he downed the rest of the wine. "Bloody hell."

"Well that was...interesting." She mocked Darcie causing Liam to smirk. She looked to Ryan and then to her boyfriend. "Is he always that hard on Aoibheann?" She asked. A part of her wanted to leave the table and see how she was doing. The girl had been through enough today, she didn't need to be treated that way.

Ryan was the first to answer Brooke's question. "First dear old dad would go after our mother, then it was Liam and now it's her. That asshole knows that Colin is still a hard topic for her to talk about so of course he brings him up whenever he can."

Liam just shook his head, he couldn't wait to get the okay to kill Darcie and bring an end to his abuses ways.