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    â€œTalk to my sister. She saw the eggs, too.”
    Just past the crowd of reporters, he saw Skye running up the path toward him. She reached the top, and her eyes widened as she took in the situation. “What’s going on?”
    â€œLover boy here has stolen my eggs,” Jake said bitterly.
    Cameron got up and brushed the dirt from his slacks. “It’s a plot he hatched with his sister to get publicity,” he told the reporters.
    â€œLook around you,” Jake said. “See the egg shapesin the rocks? They’re dinosaur eggs embedded in the stones.”
    â€œJust looks like round rocks to me,” the head reporter responded. “I think we’re going to have more proof than this to run a story.”
    â€œThere were eggs here,” Skye said.
    Jake whipped his head around to look at her and saw Cameron do the same. Why would she help? It was to her benefit to keep this under wraps for a while.
    â€œI saw them,” she said.
    â€œWho are you?” the older reporter asked.
    â€œSkye Blackbird, the manager of the mine here. Someone has tampered with the evidence.” Her gaze was on Cameron, and he flushed but said nothing.
    The reporter shook his head. “There isn’t much to go on here.” He glanced around at the site. “Call us again when you have more proof.”
    â€œI’ll get you proof,” Jake said tightly. “I have some experts I can call to help me excavate more eggs. And next time I’ll call people who won’t be misled by a saboteur.” He gave Cameron a long look.
    He stomped down the path to the SUV. He should have stayed to thank Skye but he was thinking only of setting things right. Once he accompanied the ferry riders’ car back to town, he’d find his eggs. But first he’d make a call to Kimball Washington. Kimball had been his mentor for many years. He’d know what to do.

Chapter Five
    S kye had been as shocked to hear herself speak up to the reporters as Jake had been, but the thought of the slimy Cameron Reynolds getting away with his ploy was enough to make her speak before she thought. At least the media wouldn’t be descending just yet.
    She watched the vehicles disappear around the bend in a cloud of dust then went inside the mine. The workers had left for the day, and the place was eerily quiet. She’d told her mother she’d be late and what she was going to do. Though her mother had said nothing, she knew she thought it was time to put the past away, too.
    She could hear the drip of water from somewhere. The dank smell of earth followed her down the corridor to her office. Skye’s office often felt like a haven to her.
    Here she could see the things her father had left behind. She could open his humidor and sniff the last faint scent of his Cuban cigars, though they were staleby now. Still, it seemed he could walk in the door at any moment. She liked it best when the mine was empty, and she could close her eyes and go back eight years in time. Silly, she knew. It was time she grew up.
    She sat at the battered metal desk and put her head in her hands. Events seemed to be spiraling out of her control. This old garnet mine had served its purpose of getting her past the grief of her father’s abandonment. She was twenty-four now, a grown woman. It was time she left childish things behind.
    It was time to pack up all her father’s possessions. The thought made her feel as though she were having a panic attack, even though she’d come here intending to pack. Skye took a few deep breaths. In and out, in and out . Once the constriction eased in her chest, she found a box from the closet and opened the drawers.
    She began to pack away the things, forcing herself not to linger over each one. It wasn’t as though she were throwing them away. She could still take them from her closet at home and look at them if she felt the need.
    Once the desk was clean, she