Tom's POV   "Pick a place,"   What place? I bit my bottom lip unsure of what to say. This was business and frankly I was tired of meeting at restaurants. Besides if I ever summoned the courage to do what Barlow wanted, I needed it to be somewhere private.     "How about your office?" I suggested and heard him grunt.     "Sounds good. What time will you make it here?"    I glanced up at the clock in my office and down at the numerous files on my desk. "Say in thirty minutes?" The rest of my work could wait until later. I needed to know what exactly was on Adam Stone's mind.     It had been two days since Finn called and he had been on my mind over and over again. Well not him, his demands rather. Get Stone in on the business?   There was no way he would consent to it.     Bu

Madeline's POV   "You're late,"    John sat in a booth, a glass of brandy or some other dour alcohol sloshing around it, sat on the table. He had a stern look on his face as if he were training a bunch of soldiers. The jackass probably felt like he could talk to me however he wanted because I had allowed him to be part of the plan.     Dumbass.     He had better have a valid reason for calling me out here. I was here running around, trying to make sure things worked out as we wanted it to. As I wanted it to. This was my dream anyways and John was just privileged to be a part of it.   He had nothing to go to if one thought about it. He had nothing to do but join me anyway. If he hadn't joined me, what would he have done? Make a living?    Without this deal, he had no hope of being set for life. Without me he was nothing. He had to

Eve's POV   I needed to escape. And this was Hawaii! It was the perfect place to escape from reality, if I chose to see it that way. This was a vacation. The point was to get away from bad memories. Dwelling on them, the good and bad ones, wasn't getting me anywhere.   The view from the window was already marvelous, I wonder what it would feel like to be in the view itself.   To be in the cool open air, to smell the sea, to hear the waves crashing against the shores, gently. I only got to see these things in movies. I might as well experience it all for myself.   "No more moping around then," I mumbled, launching to my feet. Tom had gone to have his fun. I could bet his entire house that he had found a woman to prey on tonight and while I was wasting away on the bed, losing my mind slowly, my husband got to have the time of his life with as many women as he wan

Eve's POV  Heat.   His heat. It coated my face, made the hair on my skin tingle and drove me crazy with desire. He was so close, I could feel his breath on my face, hot and harsh, demanding to be felt.   "Golden," it slipped past my lips and I closed my eyes in longing, eagerly waiting for his kisses. Eager for those firm lips to plunder mine, for this tongue to invade every corner. Every part of me.   But the kisses never came. He slipped away from my grasp and for a minute I just stared into space like a fool.   "I'm sorry," He said, plummeting down from the high he had taken me to in the first place. "That should never have happened,"  My head snapped up to look at him. The man who had responded eagerly to my touch, the man who had driven me dizzy with desire was gone. His face was shuttered off and he hid

Tom's POV "Bass!" Some drunkard yelled behind me and I laughed at how dumbass he sounded. What the hell was Bass?  Oh who gave a fuck about that? Not me, that was certain. I was down to enjoy my time here in Hawaii and hell yes I could say I was already.   I had started off with a drink at the open bar in the resort. The first few drinks were free because Stone was a rich son of a bitch and he had the money to give margaritas for free. I had to be rich like that in the next few years or I'd be a total screw up.   And of course I would be. I planned to be. Once the deal with Adam starts pouring in profits and Barlow brings bugger deals once he got my gift to him, then it was only a matter of a few years. That was it.   After a few drinks, I'd head out of resort with a hired car. All I had on was my Hawaiian shirt and shorts and my debit card beca