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money. The last two years, the boys came down here without their parents.”
    â€œSince they were fifteen? Wow.” She couldn’t imagine. She’d come here with her parents until she was nineteen, and on assignment with the Service after that.
    David didn’t make any comment, and Tammy wondered if he had been that age when he was running around in the jungle by himself. But he’d probably been with his brother, like these boys were together.
    â€œIf Alex and Nate were worried that someone was coming after them because they knew about the missing jaguar, they might have felt safer down here,” David said.
    â€œExcept that your boss knows where they plan to be. So couldn’t anyone figure that out?”
    â€œPossibly. We don’t know enough about what’s going on with the brothers,” David said.
    Tammy pondered this as they walked together to the resort’s dining hall. Ribbons of pink and orange sky turned darker as the night drew down upon them. Beautiful. Parrots talked away to each other, their vibrant plumage of blues and greens standing out against every shade of green foliage imaginable as monkeys called out somewhere in the canopy. Oil lanterns lighted the pathways, though the jaguar shifters didn’t need the extra light to see well. The sweet fragrance of orchids wafted through the air, and Tammy felt like she was walking through an exotic garden with a much too hot and sexy shifter.
    â€œSo what ‘activities’ are the boys signed up for exactly?” Tammy asked, bringing her mind back to the mission from the romantic surroundings.
    â€œZip-lining through the canopy will be first thing tomorrow morning,” David said.
    She glanced at him. “Okay, not to sound dumb, but what is zip-lining, exactly?”
    â€œIt’s high-flying excitement when you harness up and whip through the canopy of the rainforest.”
    She frowned at him.
    â€œTechnically, a pulley is connected to a cable strung through the trees. A person is harnessed to the pulley at the top of the cable, and then gravity zips him along the cable to reach a lower point. It’s fun. We’ll go on the excursion in an attempt to catch up with them.”
    â€œYou actually want to go zip-lining?” she asked, not liking where that scenario was headed. At first, she thought they’d just catch the boys when they got to the end of the line. But now she wondered if David meant they were also going to make the trip through the canopy.
    â€œYou’re not afraid of heights, are you?”
    â€œOf course not. But someone should be on the ground to grab these guys when they get off the platform, right?” She wasn’t about to share her fear of heights with him. Not even her brothers knew that about her. “So if you follow them on the zip line, I can meet them when they reach their final destination.”
    â€œShall we toss for it?”
    â€œNo,” she said a little too abruptly. “I’ll meet the teens on the ground when they have finished their ride.”
    â€œI don’t think that will work. I’ll have a better chance grabbing them than you will.”
    â€œYou said that they’d be more willing to speak to me. I didn’t know we had to physically arrest them,” she said, eyeing him with suspicion.
    â€œIf they won’t cooperate… Besides, if I’m not with you, they might be more willing to talk to you before you get on the zip line. If that doesn’t work, I’ll be waiting on the other end. Once they can’t run away, you can convince them to tell us about the jaguar. I suspect they’re afraid they’re going to be in trouble concerning the cat. So we’ll just have to ensure they know they won’t be. As long as the cat is safe and we can retrieve her.”
    What he said about her appearing to be less of a threat to the boys when they had difficulty with male authority figures and