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flip out. Or would she? Then h e tried to rationalize it. Surely, she would understand. He was only trying to protect her.
    Adam pulled his phone from his pocket and started to call his friend, Charlie. Just bef ore he hit dial he changed his mind . If he called Charlie, he would only try to talk him out of watching Eve anymore. After all, the job had officially ended a year ago . O n top of that, there hadn’t been any real threat to her since Michael’s death. Adam had a gut feeling that danger would come for her. He didn’t know when or h ow, but he knew he had to protect her .
    Nope . Tossing the phone on the bed, Adam decided to go take a shower instead of taking a repeated tongue lashing from his best friend and business partner.
    The shower helped and before long, it was time for them to meet. Adam approached Eve’s h otel room door and heard a cry that had him debating whether he would break the door down or knock first. Even though his heart pounded, he knocked frantically instead . Within those few moments, his heart felt as if it was stuck in his throat. Then the door opened.
    “Hello Adam,” she said quietly.
    “Are you all right ? I heard you yell just a s I started to knock.” Adam looked over her to make sure that no one else was in the room.
    “Yea, I’m fine.  It was just a nightmare. ” He hid his sigh of relief because h er tone troubled him. She seemed so nonchalant about the nightmare and he knew it had to have bothered her.
    All he wanted to do was to hold her, but he couldn’t. If she knew he had been watching her for the past year she would run away. Worse yet, she might find a way to kill him. At least then he would be out of his misery.
    “Do you still want to go snorkeling?” he asked. He held up th e mesh bag that he carried to show it contained the necessary masks and fins that they needed.
    “Absolutely! Let me grab my sunglasses and bag.” She smi led energetically, even if it was faked.
    Adam ’s relief returned with her peppiness . Her abil ity to bounce back amazed him and he couldn’t help but smile. They walked to the front of the hotel where he had the valet br ing his car around. Adam kept a Nissan GT-R on the island and he loved driv ing i t. In fact, he liked it so much that he had an identical one in Chicago.
    The sleek silver machine fit him like a glove and he couldn’t help but notice that Eve’s jaw dropped when he threw the car into sixth gear and hit sixty in three seconds on the highway. It wasn’t his baby or anything, but damn did he like the roar of the engine. They zoomed down to the marina that was just a few minutes away.  Adam pulled the car up to a do ck and got out where a man just as tall as he waited for them.
    Koa worked for Adam on the islands to compliment Adam’s stateside employees. He made all arrangements for Adam as well as being a source of information through the locals. Adam and Koa had met five years earlier when he came to Maui just to get away from his job for a few weeks. They became great friends and Adam knew that he not only had a much-needed confidant in Koa, but Adam could also pay Koa more than enough to care for his large family.
    Without as much as a single syllable pa ssing between them, Adam handed Koa the key to the Nissan and glided around the front of the car to open the door for Eve. Eve took Adam’s hand and stepped out of the car. Before she had a chance to even ask who he was or be introduced, Koa had slipped into the drivers ’ seat and sped away.
    “You’re kidding right?” She said to him, her eyes looked as if they were about to pop out of their sockets.
    “No, why?”
    “These aren’t boats! ”
    “Does that make a differ ence?” Adam knew he was being coy.
     
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    “No, I guess not .” The yacht surprised her and made her even more curious about him. She knew in her gut he wasn’t telling her something.
    Adam boarded the boat and then helped her on.  It was the second time today that he