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get there. We’ll go to the boat. There’s more food there, and we’ll need to set back soon.” He stood up, and Meryl slid to put her feet on the floor. It was a pity they had to go. She could have stayed as she was—on Marloth’s lap—and on their island forever.
    She sighed and her shoulders lifted. “I guess. Okay, lead on and let’s get the action started. Do you have any idea at all what’s behind this?”
    “What is? Yeah, me telling the council once I was back that I only wanted you. Who is? Nope, not a sausage. I don’t even know who they wanted me to mate with. Or even who it was who wanted it. All I got was not you, and then lots of shit about how little you thought of . . . hold on . . . we both sent emails and never received them.”
    Meryl nodded as she followed him along the direct path to the jetty. “Yeah, so someone must have intercepted them. If we can find out whom, then it’s one step closer. I bet not everyone can do that sort of stuff. Er, look, I just have to know something. Where is home? You know, where you had to go back to? You never ever told me, just that it was everywhere. I’d decided you had such a shitty home, you didn’t want to talk about it.”
    Marloth turned to face her and laughed bitterly. “That’s one of life’s ironies, love. About thirty miles from where you live. I went to uni in St Andrews.”
    Meryl would have fallen down if there hadn’t been a handy tree to lean against.

Marloth bent over the engine. His face was grimy and his expression grim. The swear words were earthy and explicit. After deciding he couldn’t do anything positive, he lifted his head and grimaced. “It’s buggered. Engine and radio. Not only that, somehow my power of transmission is like a dodgy connection. All fuzzy. In theory, there should be a way of letting Isola Dei Sogni know where we are or that we’re stranded. Someone wants to make mega problems for us. Not just waves, but a tsunami.”
    “Well, won’t someone come for us when we don’t get back?”
    If only it were that easy. Own up time.
    “Well, if I’d taken you where I was supposed to, then yes. But I wanted to bring you here. No one knows that, not yet anyway. Not until I send a mind message to Faran. If it will work.”
    Meryl stared at him for so long he got twitchy. Then she leaned back against the side of the cockpit and laughed. It was the last thing he expected.
    “So we’re not supposed to be here, but somewhere else, and our engine is buggered. Accident or design?”
    He considered her question. Every fiber of his being screamed sabotage. But why and how? “I think there’s as much chance as a snowball has in hell for it to be an accident. Why? I don’t know yet. Who, likewise. But it hints at someone on the island. So we follow our plan to the letter, yes?”
    He watched Meryl’s face go white and then a steely determination showed in her eyes. “Oh yes, so one last kiss?”
    Marloth sniffed the air, he couldn’t sense anyone, but dare he trust his senses? Why not. “Down into the cabin quick. Close the blinds and the curtains. Bend over the table and don’t make a sound.” Her glance was a puzzled one, but she gave a brief nod and clattered down the three steps into the cabin. He took once last sensing smell around. Nothing. With a kick to the engine housing, just in case someone somehow saw him, he followed her.
    Meryl had done as he asked, and her bikini-covered ass faced him as he jumped the last step and swung down to the floor. The room was dim, and the lowering sun made little impact on the light. It was hot, airless, and very sensuous.
    “Hold on to the far edge. Don’t let go.” He waited until she complied and made short work of pulling her bikini bottom down her legs and off one foot. With a grin, he knew she couldn’t see he blessed the fact the front and back was held together by tied ribbons, and undid them with his teeth.
    “Spread your legs and don’t move.” He pushed her