Upon their return to the estate, Ronan sighed and scrubbed at his head.

"Come with me," he said, already turning toward where Declan's office was. "Then you can do whatever you'd like with the rest of the day." Adam had offered and he did want Adam there, it made him feel better.

"I just." Turning his eyes back on Adam, "Don't... worry if things get rough. It's just how it works between us." Not when his father was alive. When Niall Lynch was alive, Ronan and Declan had been friends. That stopped two days later when Ronan wrecked one of the most expensive coaches in his distress.