Schroeder, Melissa - Getting Lei'd [Hawaiian Holidays 3] (Siren Publishing PolyAmour) Read Free

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    “His balls are fine. Now he has to worry about the broken nose I just gave him.”
    Alex’s brows shot up. “Really? You lost your temper? What the hell did he do?
    “He didn’t do anything. He said horrible things about Mari.”
    “What kind of things?”
    He could see the anger lighting in his best friend’s eyes and started to worry. Damon had a temper he usually kept under control. But Alex’s Hispanic temper sometimes got the better of him. They’d both had a crush on Mari for a long time. Since he’d been in the third grade, Damon had been halfway in love with her. From the moment Damon had introduced Alex to Mari, he’d been infatuated.   Knowing she would never go for their need to share a woman, they had both opted to be friends.
    “It was something about sex, wasn’t it?”
    Damon nodded once.
    Alex growled, but Damon’s cell phone ringing stopped him. It was Mari.
    “Hey, sweetie, how you doing?”
    “Fine, baby,” Eddie said, amusement threading her voice.
    “Where’s Mari?”
    There was a beat of silence as he realized how territorial he sounded.
    “She’s fine. We have her. I wanted to let you know because I knew you would worry. We convinced her to come back to Hawaii with us.”
    “She doesn’t need to go there. Tell me where you are. I’ll come.”
    Another beat of silence sounded over the phone as Alex frowned at him.
    “No. We’re taking her. You know how crazy it will be here. She’ll be on every news program, they’ll tear her apart.”
    The pain he heard in Eddie’s voice calmed him somewhat. Eddie and Sophia truly loved her, and now he knew they were only trying to protect their friend.
    He sighed. “Okay. Tell her to call me. Anytime.”
    “Sure. Could you talk to her father? She called him, but he talked of shooting off appendages she had damaged.”
    He chuckled. “Nothing less than my brother deserves. We’ll calm him down.”
    “We?”
    “Alex and me.”
    “Hmm. Okay.” She said nothing for a moment. “You know, if I didn’t think the media would be all over this, I would leave her in your care, yours and Alex’s. I know you both would take excellent care of her.”
    Before he could respond, she clicked off the phone and left Aaron staring at his.
    “What?”
    He looked at Alex. “Eddie. She said they’re going to Hawaii.”
    Alex frowned. “I don’t like that. But I can understand. There’s press, but it is easier to disappear in Hawaii than here in DC.”
    His mind barely registered his friend’s comments. He kept going over the tone of Eddie’s voice when she had said they would take care of Mari. Both her friends had shown up with their new loves, two men for each woman. Was Eddie saying what he thought she was saying?
    “Damon.”
    “We were going to go on vacation, right?”
    Alex nodded. They had been thinking of trying to run away after the wedding, trying their best to ignore the fact that the woman they both loved had married someone else.
    “Well, if Mari isn’t back in a few days, get ready because we’re going to Hawaii to get her.”

Chapter Two

    Maribelle leaned back on her beach chair and lifted her face to the sun. God, this felt good. She had been in Hawaii for three days, and she couldn’t get over the wonderful feeling. Leaving DC had been one of the best decisions she’d made. It had been sleeting the day they left, the cold gray sky mirroring her feelings.
    “You look like you’re enjoying yourself.”
    She smiled at Mal, one of Sophia’s lovers. Sophia had met Jack and Mal when she came over for business during Christmas and fell in love with the cousins. Both of them were pretty, but Mal, he was different. He was gorgeous in a way that kept taking her breath away.   Still, he never made her feel out of sorts. She never felt self-conscious around him.
    “I am. I love seasons, but summer was always my favorite. I loved going to the beach with the family. And here, the water is so much