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Callum and Rachel stared at each other for a moment There were times when he could almost feel the witch read his mind This was one of those times

“I’ll call Father and see if I can borrow his jet again” Rachel stood, pulling her phone fro as she did so She started to talk as she strode from the room

“I’ll dig up everything I can on Esteban” Elle grabbed her computer and followed Rachel

“You taking the whole team?” Lake said

“Megan’s still healing fro,” Callum said An injury from their last unplanned op “She can stay here with Dimitri and man the store” He didn’t mention that Dimitri’s traumatised sister would be there too Both men knew that Katrina wasn’t anywhere near ready to leave the security of the building And neither of theerous situation Not after everything she’d gone through at the hands of her kidnapper “Rachel can handle the interviee have set up”

“So everybody else, then,” Lake said “Keep ency help”

“Thanks” Callum stood, ready to shut the call off

“Be careful,” Lake said “Elle only scraped the surface when she described Esteban The guy is smart, ruthless and evil Don’t underesti what he wants”

Callum felt a cold dread settle in his chest “I’ll call you on the other side”

With a click, he ended the call and went to pack—texting Joe as he did, to let him know help was on its way

Chapter 9

There was no oxygen in Bolivia’s capital city None The air was so thin that they ht worrying about Alice and listening to her gran snore, the last thing Julia wanted to do was catch an early ht to La Paz

And now, she was going to die on the runway, in Bolivia So end to her rather pathetic life By the time Julia had made it down the stairs fro and she was fighting the urge to voave way beneath her, she felt Joe’s arm around her waist

“Altitude sickness” He kissed her te to someone in Spanish

Alight, with a en at her side If she hadn’t felt so bad, she would have been hu was randmother was unaffected