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three hundred and sixty degree view.
    Billy carried her bags into the
cottage and walked back towards the boat.
    “At the back of the house is a four
wheeler for you to use.  Chase is expecting you at the house on the hill at
five. Follow the paved road at the back of the cottage to the right.  I suggest
you are on time.  He does not like to wait.”
    He turned and walked a few steps
before he turned back to her.
    “There is a phone on the bedside table
of the main bedroom.  If you require any assistance dial nine.  If it is an
emergency, dial zero.”  He nodded at her.  “I’ll see you later, Miss Lewis.”
    Mackenzie sighed watching the middle
aged man, she guessed him to be in his late forties, with light brown hair and
a well formed tanned body, jump on the boat. He pulled away and with a wide
arch on the surface of the sea disappeared around the side of the Island.
    “Why the devil did he insist I stay
here if it is clear they did not want me here?”
    On the other hand if he was a friend
or family of that damn jerk Hawk Carter, she should not be surprised!
    She cursed and closed her mind.  She
refused to think of him.  Of the mind blowing climax he gave her that made her
scream.  A first for her.  Her core throbbed every time she thought of his lips
and hands on her body; of his hard and big …”
    “Aaarrggh!  Stop it Mackenzie!”
    She
ripped her top and shorts off and threw them on the chair on the wooden jetty
and dived into the clear, quiet tropical sea.  Her body speared through the
water as she forced her mind clear of the treacherous thoughts that just would
not quit!
    “What is she doing here, Billy?”
    Billy frowned at Chase whose face
looked like thunder itself.  He looked down at the woman next to him and she
looked like lightning ready to explode.
    “I am afraid I am a bit lost, Chase. 
This is Mack Lewis from FIO.”
    Chase cursed and he glared at her. 
“You are Mack Lewis?”
    “Mackenzie Lewis, everyone calls me
Mack. You’re the owner, Chase Paxton?”
    He nodded, his jaw rigid and his body
stiff as a board.
    “Bloody hell!”  Her curse reverberated
through the room and Billy glanced at her with raised eyebrows.  She looked at
him.
    “You can just as well take me back to
the other Island.  I am not staying on the same Island as this … this …
Lothario!  Famous writer indeed.  He is nothing more than a debased …
douchebag!” 
    Billy looked at Chase and said with a
sound of humor in his voice.
    “I take it you two have met?” 
    “You could say that.”
    “It would appear as if she is a tad
annoyed with you?”
    “A tad?  A tad?  I am not annoyed …
that would indicate that I gave this … this … creep any thought.  Which I have
not! I am nothing if no …”
    “I don’t know, Billy.  To me it sounds
a lot like the lady is protesting too much.”
    “Hmm … you could say that. Care to
fill me in?”
    Mackenzie incinerated Chase with eyes
that shimmered like green crystals. Her lips were pressed flat and her body
trembled with anger.
    “Well we beca …”
    “Don’t you bloody dare!”
    “Very well, little groupie ...”
    “If you refer to me once more as a fatuous,
senseless groupie, I swear I will break your nose! I have never even read one
of your stupid books!”
    Both Billy and Chase’s eyebrows rose. 
Billy chuckled.
    “She called your books stupid.  Good
thing her view is not shared by a million others.”
    “What were you doing at the book
signing if you’ve never read them?”
    “My little brother thinks you are the
best writer ever.  I was doing him a favor.”
    Chase’s heartbeat increased. 
    “What were you doing here four weeks
ago?”
    “We were tracing a trail of
micro-organisms that has been present in all the carcasses we’ve found. 
Believe me, had I known you were here, I would never have set a foot on this
bloody Island!”
    A slow grin formed around Chase’s
mouth which made Mackenzie’s temper soar and