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The woman smiled. “The answers you seek are on that drive.”
“I can offer you protection,” he said.
“I know you believe that, sire, but you can’t.”
Kaspar felt irritation rise. “Are you underestimating my power?”
“No, Sire, never. But if you try to protect me, that will lead them to you, and I could never take the chance that you might be harmed.”
Kaspar pulled out his phone and fired off a text, glancing at her as he typed. “You’ll take the protection I’m offering you.”
She shook her head, but when he scowled at her, she bowed her head. “Thank you, Your Majesty.”
Within minutes, one of his guards arrived and ushered the woman into his car. Kaspar told him to take her somewhere he wouldn’t know about and then led his brother back to their awaiting SUV.
“What do you think?” Gunnar asked.
“I don’t know just yet,” he admitted. “But it’s disconcerting.”
“If the Cauld Ane have our brother, what are we going to do?”
“I don’t know, Gunnar. But if they have him, then they now know we are still here. We have spent all this time erasing any evidence of our existence and, with one stupid move by Ari, all of that work is undone.” He rubbed his forehead. “I will figure it out, but it might take some time.”
He rode the rest of the way home in silence, his brother engrossed in his phone. Arriving at his compound obscured by the small mountain next to the sea, Kaspar waited for his driver to open the door and then headed into his house. He called his secretary on the way to his office and removed his jacket, laying it over a chair.
Camilla arrived a few minutes later, knocking on his open door and waiting for him to acknowledge her.
“Come,” he said.
“I have that number for you, Sire.”
He handed her his phone so she could enter the phone numbers he required. After she gave it back to him, she left, closing the door behind her. Kaspar sat in his chair and made a call while he opened his laptop.
“Gunnach.”
“Góðan dag, læknir Gunnach. Ég skil að þú ert bróðir minn í vörslu.” (Good afternoon, Doctor Gunnach. I understand you have my brother in custody.)
“Og þú ert?” (And you are?)
“Kaspar Baldersson.”
A sigh sounded through the phone and Kaspar waited for Kade to respond. “So, it’s true.”
When Kade’s father had escaped Iceland and the wrath of Kaspar’s father, the agreement was that none in the new generation of Cauld Ane would know about the Kalt Einn. In order for Kade’s father to keep his head, he had to agree to the terms of secrecy, sail for Scotland, and never return to Iceland.
“It’s true,” Kaspar said, answering in English. “Do you have my brother?”
“Aye,” Kade said.
“The details, please?”
“From what I understand, Ari was looking for his daughters. He found two of them. We allowed him to explain, and he attempted to dose us with Red Fang. He will not give us any other information. We will not release him.”
Kaspar pinched the bridge of his nose. “He found my nieces?”
“Aye.”
“Their names?”
