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    Both men knew Callie’s fear of staying in London was real. Just as they knew if Peter had followed a lead to America, maybe even found and confronted the man who was responsible for attacking Callie and killing her boyfriend, then he might also have alerted Callie’s attacker to the fact that he was being hunted.
    Another reason they couldn’t allow Callie to go back to Cornwall on her own: they had no idea as yet why Peter hadn’t contacted Callie since he’d left home a week ago, but knowing how close father and daughter had always been, Lijah was sure there had to be a damned good reason for it. Such as Peter was no longer alive to be able to contact his daughter. If that was true, then Callie could now be the one who was being hunted.
    “You stay with Seth or you stay with me. Those are your only two choices,” Lijah insisted.
    She looked slightly bewildered. “I didn’t bring any other clothes with me—”
    “Then we’ll get you some,” Seth assured her.
    Callie could see by their stubborn expressions that neither man was going to budge on the subject.
    Could she force herself to stay in London?
    Even overnight?
    How could she not stay if it was going to help her father?
    She straightened. “Okay, I’ll stay.”
    “Good girl.” Lijah’s expression lightened as he nodded his approval. “Now you just have to decide which one of us you’re going to stay with.”
    The devil or the devil ?
    There was no doubt in Callie’s mind she felt more comfortable with Seth than she did Lijah, but she also knew there really wasn’t much difference between the two men. Both of them were hard, ruthless, and would kill without regret if they had to.
    Because that’s what your father trained them to do.
    Her father…
    “You choose. It doesn’t matter to me which.” There was no going back now she had made the decision to stay and help these two men find her father.
    “Seth—” Lijah broke off as he was interrupted by the ringing of Seth’s cell phone, his eyes narrowing as the other man looked at the caller ID, his expression grim as he stepped outside into the hallway to take the call.
    Leaving Lijah alone with Callie.
    She now looked…calm, composed. As if she had pulled a veneer over her in order to shield herself and her emotions.
    “Did you have counseling after that night?” The beating was bad enough, but it couldn’t have been easy hearing her boyfriend being shot and killed.
    “The—the police arranged for me to talk to someone.” She still didn’t look at him. “It didn’t help.”
    No, Lijah wouldn’t imagine that it had. “We’ll get the bastard who did this—”
    “I don’t care about him!” She turned on him fiercely. “I just want— I need you to find my father and bring him home.” Her voice broke emotionally.
    If it was humanly possible, then Lijah would do that. Any of the men working at Grayson Security would do the same.
    “Sorry about that.” Seth was frowning when he came back into the office. “Quinn didn’t know you were back, which is why he called me,” he explained economically. “The situation in Colombia has gone pear-shaped, and Quinn needs help.”
    The situation in Colombia was the kidnapping of the wife of one of the British officials working at the consulate in Bogota. Grayson Security had been called in to deal with the delivery of the ransom demanded for her safe return.
    Lijah would get a report from Seth later, but he could already guess that the wife probably hadn’t been returned, despite Quinn having delivered the ransom demand. Kidnappers in Colombia weren’t too worried about seeing through their part of an agreement. Which meant that Quinn needed help to go in and extract the wife, if she was still alive.
    If.
    “Go,” he told Seth briskly. “Take the jet. If you aren’t back in a couple of days, Callie and I will take a commercial flight to the States.”
    Callie looked at him in alarm. “I’ve agreed to stay in London