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laptops had been confiscated at the beginning of filming. It was part of the deal. No contact with the outside world. Luckily Jaxie came by to run after Kat had a crew member phone her. They headed out with two ‘bodyguards’ running up the hill, away from the mansion where the men stayed. Jaxie was a good influence on her, not just for exercise, but to motivate her to keep searching for what she wanted from life.
                 “Crane and I are like two teenagers these days, just smiling at each other all the time,” Jaxie said. “God, I love that man so much.” They were near the top and stopped talking to make it the last few yards.
                 “I want what you have,” Kat finally said. “I want my Crane.”
                 The two women looked at each other and Jaxie nodded. “You’ll get him.”
                 That night was the rose ceremony. Already, Nils was gone and now two others had to leave. Kat didn’t feel like she knew half the men well enough to make that decision, but hoped that she’d get some important questions answered at the cocktail party that night. She needed to ask Lance about his motives for being on the show. Just because he kissed like a boyfriend and was handsome, didn’t mean she should keep him. She also needed to ask Brad what he saw their lives like as a busy doctor and his wife. And Tony. Tony was cocky, but extremely sexy, and damned hard to ignore. He walked around just assuming she was pining away for him and she kind of was. She hated to say it, but he was so damned confident. She had to believe that if she just went ahead and kissed him, he couldn’t be as wonderful as she fantasized. Maybe she should just throw herself on him.
                 At the cocktail party, she realized that as much as she wanted to keep Lance around for laughs and to look at, he was not interested in her, or any woman as a wife, anytime soon. He was a player, on the show to further his career. Probably like Tony but the difference was that she was extremely attracted to Tony. His big shoulders, his sexy as sin smile. Or, she could let Sam go, but he’d done that sweet song at the karaoke place and she suspected he had a lot more to him than she could see.
    In the end , she stood in front of the men handing out roses until the last three were Brad, the doctor, Grant the programmer, and Joe, the policeman. Considering that she didn’t want to be a doctor’s wife (as well as not ever having had a good conversation with him), and that she thought of Joe more like a little brother instead of a sexy suitor for potential husband material, she knew what she had to do.
    All roses were handed out, Kat walked Joe and Brad to waiting limos, thanking them for coming on the show. Brad looked mildly disappointed but Joe had tears in his eyes and Kat wondered how much she might have led him on. Back in the house, they toasted to the remainder of the show and Kat was pleased to announce that “tomorrow, we are flying to Maui for a week of fun in the sun.” All nine men looked very pleased at the news.
     
    Kat had never been to Hawaii, and from the moment she stepped from the plane, she was in love. Even though she’d asked to travel with the guys on the same flight, there’d been some hard fast rule about her traveling separately. Along with Jaxie, who couldn’t stand to have Crane on Maui without her, Kat took the five hour flight to Kahului airport.
                 “I love Maui!” Jaxie took a deep breath and reached to squeeze Kat’s hand when they exited the limo at the Grand Wailea front door. “Girl, if you don’t fall in love here, there’s something wrong with you.”
                 “Oh, don’t worry,” Kat laughed. “My problem is falling in love with too many of them!”
                 They’d talked the entire flight, and Kat had finally been able to vent her fears and excitement about the men.