Starr turned around to check on Hope, "Thank you for remembering a car seat."

"No problem. Jess and I almost got into an accident with Bree and Chloe one day, so I know how important they are."

"What?" Starr hadn't heard about this, and she had forgotten for the moment that Brody had help raise Hope for the first year of her life.

"It wasn't a really close call – just one of those moments where you realize how bad something could have been."

"It scares you so much, doesn't it?"

Starr was going to ask Brody about calling Hope "Chloe" when the phone buzzed.

"Could you see who it is?" Brody requested.

"It's a new voicemail from Gigi." It only took Starr a second to flip open the phone in the cup holder.

"The password is 1234. It must be important that she called the pre-paid phone." Brody hoped the message was that the fueled jet was ready to go, but his gut said differently.

Starr frowned at him and quickly dialed into the voicemail. She hit the speaker button as the recording started.

"It's Gigi. I got a message from Rex that Shane has had some kind of relapse with his leukemia. I don't know how long you are going to be, but I have to find out now. I'll send the jet back as soon as I land. It's 5:30 now, so you shouldn't have to wait very long. Kelly said she would wait in the hotel restaurant for you. I'll call you when get home. I hope you had a chance to talk to Starr. I – " The message cut off before Gigi could finish her sentence.

"Damn," Brody smacked the steering wheel with the heel of his hand, "I hope Shane's okay, and it's a false alarm. But I was really hoping to get out of Ireland as quickly as possible."

"You can't want to get out of Ireland more than I do. How long will it take?"

"It's 8 o'clock now, so the plane should have refueled and be on the way. Why didn't the phone ring when the message was sent? Though I guess it wouldn't have made a difference except to convince Gigi to wait, but she would, of course, need to be near Shane as soon as possible. With any luck, we should be at the Buchanon compound by 1 or 2 am."

Starr wasn't sure if Brody knew he was talking without giving her a chance to speak, but she did have some questions, "Who's we? Why the Buchanon compound?"

"You, Hope, Gigi, Kelly, and me. Aside from you and Hope, the rest of us live there. I'm sure Kelly will insist on you staying there as well."

"Why are the three of you in Ireland?"

"Kelly and Gigi wanted to go shopping. Rex and Joey had heard rumors about some IRA cells, so they asked me to come."

"They asked you to come? I didn't know you were the Buchanon's favorite person anymore or that they were Rex's."

"Actually, I'm the head of security at BE London, and Rex is the head of Investigative Services."

"Nice! I guess I have been gone for awhile."

"I'm sure Kelly and Gigi will enjoy updating you," Brody turned to smile at Starr, "It will give them something to do besides telling me that I need a girlfriend."

"I could go for that. I was hoping Kelly and I could go shopping since I brought more stuff for Hope than for me. Girlfriend? If you have a job at BE, didn't you and Jessica get back together?"

"No, it turns out Mitch was holding Nash prisoner. Bo and Clint asked me to check it out then afterwards offered me the job in London."

"I have been gone awhile! How far is it to the hotel?"

"Not far. It's in the Centre Square."

"That's nice. Of course, you are talking to a person who has been outside once in the past five months."

"You haven't been out of the house?"

"No, Patrick insists that I stay home, keep the house, and taking care of Marty. I think he's hoping to collect ransom on Hope and me at some point. Of course, that won't be possible now!" Starr grinned slyly at Brody.

It was only a couple minutes until Brody pulled up to the valet stand in front of the hotel. "Let's grab Hope, and go find Kelly."

"Let's do this!" Starr was planning on grabbing Kelly in a huge hug. She was suddenly appreciative of all the Cramer women. She quickly unbuckled Hope from the car seat as Brody spoke to the boy at the stand.

"Just give us 10 or so minutes, and we will be back."

"We're meeting her in the restaurant, right? Too bad, we won't have time to eat. I'm suddenly craving some pizza"

"There will be food on the plane - I think there's some ice cream if that will work?"

"Ice cream?" Hope suddenly asked.

"You've awaken the Cookies 'n' Cream Monster," Starr jiggled Hope, "We're going to go get Kelly and then we'll all have some ice cream."

" 'Kay." Hope smiled.

Brody grinned, "I'll have to remember that."

The two laughed on their way into the restaurant.

"We're here to meet, Mrs. Buchanon," Brody told the maitre d'.

"I'm sorry, Mrs. Buchanon isn't here, sir. Have you checked the bar area?"

"No, but we will." They crossed the hotel lobby to the small, modern bar area.

"She's not here. Why does it feel like this evening is going downhill?"

"Because we've had multiple changes of plans? She probably just went up to the room."

"You're right." Brody quickly crossed back to the bank of elevators.

Starr hurried to keep up with Brody. She was getting impatient to leave Ireland.

"I'm sorry. I didn't mean to leave you back there."

"No problem. This couldn't be quick enough for me."

The elevator dinged at the penthouse.

"Why is the door open?"

Brody pushed open the door, "What the hell!"

All the furniture was turned over and paintings were ripped off the walls.

Starr pushed in behind him. "Oh my God, what happened?"

"Here's a note."

Starr moved next to Brody to read it.

Good Evening,

We understand that you took something of mine.

That's okay - We have someone important to you.

We look forward to making Brenden's killer pay.

The Men of 21

"Patrick has kidnapped Kelly!" Starr gasped.