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find Cira’s treasure that has been lost for centuries and swap it for Cara?”
    Eve shook her head. “I said she’d use Cara for bait, I didn’t say she’d go through with the deal. Cara will always be a threat to Natalie as long as she’s alive. She’ll always be afraid that Cara will remember something that someone told her or something she saw the night she was kidnapped.”
    â€œSo no matter what happens, Cara is going to be a victim?”
    â€œNo,” Eve said fiercely. “We won’t let that happen. We just have to play for time until we figure a way to get her away from Natalie.”
    â€œPlay for time with Natalie?” Jane asked skeptically. “She may not be your only problem. What about Jock?”
    Jock Gavin.
    Eve had been trying to keep from thinking about MacDuff’s best friend, Jock, who had formed a powerful bond with Cara during the time she’d been here in the Highlands. It had been one of those strange, rare attachments that perhaps come along only once in a lifetime. The child, older than her years, who had been friendless and on the run all her life. The young man who had fought his way from the depths of guilt and despair and was probably still fighting. No wonder they seemed to fulfill each other in spite of the difference in age and background. Jock had taken Cara under his wing, and he couldn’t have been a more supportive friend or big brother. And Cara was just as passionately protective of Jock. In fact, she had been captured by Salazar that night because she had followed Jock into the hills because she was worried about him.
    â€œJock,” Jane repeated softly. “He thinks that he’s responsible for Cara’s being taken. Do you really think he’s going to wait and be patient until you work out a plan? You had to keep him from exploding and killing more of Salazar’s men than he did when he was tracking them after they’d taken Cara. He’s not going to be either cool or sane when it’s about Cara.”
    Eve knew that, and it was something she was going to have to face right away. “Have you heard from Jock? Is he still at the hospital with MacDuff?”
    â€œNo, I haven’t heard from him. I didn’t expect to hear from him. I just thought when he was sure MacDuff was okay that he’d just disappear.” Jane shook her head. “Jock is good at disappearing. Remember?”
    Yes, Eve remembered all the stories about Jock, and some of them were chilling. He had run away from home at fifteen to see the world, and the world he had seen had almost destroyed him. He had become the victim of Thomas Reilly, a criminal who was experimenting with new drugs and mind control. Reilly’s goal was to develop the perfect superassassin, and Jock had become his prize pupil. She could only imagine the torment when Jock had realized what he had become. She did know that MacDuff had taken him from an asylum after several attempts at suicide. Jane and MacDuff had brought him back from an almost catatonic state to normalcy, and now there appeared to be no more caring and charismatic person on earth than Jock Gavin.
    Until he’d learned that MacDuff had been hurt and Cara had been taken.
    â€œMaybe he’s still at the hospital,” Eve said. “If he is, I’ve got to talk to him.”
    Jane was reaching for her phone. “I’ll call him. If he’s there, I’ll ask him to wait. If he’s not, I’ll ask to talk to MacDuff and have him call him to come back to the hospital. He’ll pay attention to MacDuff.” She was dialing the number. “He loves him.”
    â€œShould we bother MacDuff now?”
    â€œYes, MacDuff feels the same way about Jock. He knows how close he always is to the edge. He’s not going to let him fall over.” She spoke into the phone. “Jock, are you still at the hospital? Good. Stay there. Eve’s on her