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working side by side with the very supernaturals he’d trained them to kill without compunction. But at least in his case, Remington didn’t consider the arrangement to be anything more than temporary. Especially not with a Darkin who’d been his little brother’s lover. Somehow knowing she and Colt had shared a past hadn’t been such a big deal before. He and Winn had even enjoyed teasing Colt over it. But now—now he wasn’t so sure.
    “Considering how little time we’ve got, if Marley’s calculations are correct, I don’t see much of an option,” Winn answered. “If we want to discover where all the pieces of the Book have been hidden, we’ll have to split up. You two any closer to decoding Pa’s message?”
    Colt caught Remington’s gaze for just an instant, then turned his attention back to Winn. “Remy thinks it’s got something to do with either the Weaver’s Needle in the Superstition Mountains or a place called the Eye of the Needle on the outside of Phoenix close to McDowell.”
    Winn rolled the sharp, waxed end of his mustache between his fingers, his dark brows bending together in concentration. Winn was calculating in his head. Remington had seen him do it a thousand times before. “Phoenix,” he paused for an instant. “I could get you there in about an hour.”
    Raw-arr. From behind them the mountain lion growled, and Winchester gave it a pointed look. “What is that? And what is it doing here?”
    “You mean who is that,” Remington corrected him.
    Winn nodded with understanding. “Shifter?”
    “China McGee,” Colt and Remington said in unison.
    Winn’s eyes widened slightly in recognition, and his gaze darted to Colt. He at least had the decency not to let his jaw drop. “Not the same one who—” He waved his hand as if shooing the thought away. “Never mind. I don’t want to know.”
    Remington tried to hide his amused smile, but Colt saw it and punched him in the arm. That was the thing about brothers. They never let you forget anything, especially if it was embarrassing. There was certainly no way he or Winn were apt to forget that Colt’s first run-in with China had been a whopper. It wasn’t often that a woman could best their little brother, leaving him tied up to a bed naked, and get away with stealing his stuff.
    “It wasn’t my fault,” Colt growled.
    Raw-awrr, the mountain lion growled again in retort.
    Remington couldn’t understand cougar, but he understood the gesture. “She begs to differ.” He holstered his guns and flipped his long jacket back over them. Once upon a time, the story of China and Colt had been something amusing to poke him with, but now that Remington had spent some time in China’s company, it gave him all sorts of unsettling ideas he didn’t have any business thinking about, about exactly what she might do to him in a bed.
    “Despite that, she’s agreed to go with me down to follow the clue Diego left about the map in Mexico.”
    Colt gazed up at the dirigible. “You sure the contessa would be all right with extra company?”
    Winn smiled, and it lifted the ends of his mustache. “We already have Tempus on board. Thought we might drop it off for you. We’re flying to Europe.”
    “And now Phoenix is on the way to Europe?”
    Colt had a point. Winn would be doubling back for a distance, but air flight was faster than train no matter how you sliced things. “It could be. Are you up for it?” Winn answered.
    Colt nodded. “Let me go and fetch Lilly down here from Remy’s office, and we can get going.”
    Winn’s face darkened. “You still hanging on to that demon?”
    Colt pulled back his shoulders a bit and set his jaw. Winn had a hell of a nerve throwing it at him when they all had uneasy alliances to deal with at present. “She’s with me until we find Pa’s part of the Book.”
    The look in Winn’s eyes changed. There was only so far he could push as a big brother, and Colt had long ago passed the point of taking