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and you’ll just conveniently send him in my direction? I think not.”
    “Then what do you suggest, Miss Smarty Pants?”
    She lifted an eyebrow. “Did you just call me Miss Smarty Pants?”
    He nodded.
    “That is the lamest thing you’ve called me since we were about twelve.”
    “Are you going to get on with it or not?”
    She heaved a sigh. “I’ll find someplace for me and Ryan to hide on my own. You can give Jace a cell number. He calls. We make a deal of some kind. Hopefully, this whole thing will be tied up by tomorrow night.”
    “What kind of deal are you going to make?”
    “I don’t know,” she grumbled. “I’m making this up as I go.”
     

Chapter Six
     
     
    “You could’ve called first.” The fear and irritation in Antonio's voice was masked by forced calm.
    Jace McKay crossed his legs at the ankle and stretched. “Why bother? You know everything that goes on in this city. You have what I need.”
    “Comfortable?”
    “Well enough.”
    Antonio closed his office door and turned around to glare at Jace. “This is the second time in two days that someone has just waltzed in here unchallenged.”
    “Sounds like you could use some new guys.”
    “Someone else recently told me the same thing.”
    Jace shook his head. He was through with the small talk. “What do you know, Herrera?”
    “Your brother is safe.”
    “By whose standards?”
    Antonio appeared to consider this. “Mine.”
    “Not good enough. I want to know where he is.”
    “Call this number.” Antonio held out a slip of paper.
    Jace snatched the info and stood up. Antonio Herrera wasn’t small, but Jace towered over him at six foot four. Grudgingly, he admired the fact that Herrera didn’t back away. It also told him the other man didn’t believe he’d done anything Jace could hold him accountable for. At least nothing that could be proven. Yet.
    “Who has him? Surely you can tell me that.”
    “Dayne Castille.”
    “What the…” Jace’s thoughts whirled in a hundred directions at once. “That scheming weasel has my brother?”
    “Hang on, McKay.” Antonio held up a hand. “She didn’t nab him the first time.”
    “The first time?”
    “She re-abducted the kid last night,” Antonio explained. “At great personal risk, I might add.”
    Jace pulled out his phone and dialed. The entire situation kept getting better and better. Now Dayne was mixed up in this? How the hell had she managed to get in the middle of it?
    “Hello?”
    She didn’t need to say her name for him to recognize the husky tone of her voice. It was amazing how some things stayed with a man no matter how much time passed.
    “Dayne, it’s McKay,” he said in a clipped tone. “Let me talk to Ryan.”
    There was a brief pause.
    “Jace?”
    Jace’s heart thudded against his ribcage, and a tidal wave of relief washed over him. “Are you okay Ryan?”
    “Yeah, Dayne’s not bad,” Ryan told him. “She lets me eat and go pee and stuff.”
    “That’s good. Let me talk to her again.”
    “Are you coming to get me, Jace?”
    “Let me talk to Dayne, Ryan. I’ve got to straighten a few things out.”
    There was another pause.
    “Where?” Jace growled.
    “Six Flags.”
    “Excuse me?”
    “You know, Six Flags. It’s an amusement park.”
    “Fine, when?” Jace asked as he tried to keep the exasperation from his voice.
    “In three hours, at the fountain inside the entrance.”
    He closed the phone and tried to breathe. What in God’s name was she thinking taking Ryan to a place like that? They had half of the most feared mercenaries in the world on their tail, and they went to an amusement park?
    “Where is she?” Antonio asked.
    He glanced up. Antonio looked…concerned. Was he somehow connected to Dayne? Jace pitied the man if he was involved with her. She had always been a moody individual. A man could run ragged trying to keep up with her. Not that he would know or care.
    “Six Flags.”
    “She took him to Six