CHAPTER White sand extended wide up from the sapphire Pacific. Jacob Bolt lay flat and sacrificial on the warm grains in a deserted, scimitar-shaped cove sheltered by fragrant frangipani and bougainvillea. His tired body soaked up the heat from the shim- mering sand and sun. Near his feet the surf roiled and crashed. In the emerald foliage behind him birds sang and fluffed rainbow feathers. Above him .~e balmy May trade winds rustled through palm fronds. \"A white hibiscus,\" Tami said beside him. \"Kokio keokeo, white-white. Sorry, I don t have a lily.\" Bolt felt the hibiscus land on his naked chest, light and scratchy. She meant a death lily, and that he exuded the vitality of a corpse. He grinned. His eyes remained closed beneath his Rayban sun- glasses. God, he was tired. \"Is that a hint?\" he said dryly. Bolt saw her in his mind. Midtwenties, tiny and slender, high tight breasts beneath the string bikini top. Her name was Tami Tanaka and she was Hawaiian-Japanese, maybe with a touch of Caucasian and Filipino. She was beautiful in that moist, allover golden glow that came from the
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