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you remember any actors?” she asked.
    “Actors?” Rex echoed.
    “Ideally one who wanted to disappear into someone else’s identity.” Amy shrugged, fully expecting Rex to deny her any crumbs. “Maybe, you know, become a dead guy for a week. Rattle chains in the attic. Jump an old girlfriend in the night. Fuck with people’s minds and play with illusion.”
    Rex chuckled.
    Amy glanced up to see that he’d turned his laptop around so that the screen was displayed to her. He wasn’t playing Angry Birds at all. He had an application pulled up, with the guy’s picture displayed.
    “Meet Devon,” he invited. Amy crossed the room in a flash and would have seized the laptop but Rex held up a finger. “Read the paper application,” he scolded.
    Amy got his full name and location, scanned his fantasy, then Rex hid the file from view. She was back at the cabinet pulling out Devon’s application in record time.
    “This could work,” she whispered, her excitement rising.
    “Only in the short term,” Rex counseled and frowned. “Isn’t she from Seattle?”
    Amy nodded. Rex drummed his fingers and began to type quickly.
    Amy was excited to be solving this with Rex and spared a glance at him.
    He tapped to send the message then turned to consider her. “It’s all about secrets, Amy,” he murmured and leaned closer. “It’s all about knowing what people really want.” Amy’s mouth went dry as their gazes locked and held, and she wondered whether Rex might reward her…
    “Good evening, Rex. Working hard, as always?” Athena swept into the room in that moment. The co-owner of the club crossed the office in her thigh-high black patent boots, threw one leg over Rex, sat in his lap and kissed him as if she’d suck him dry.
    In a heartbeat, they might both have forgotten that Amy was in the room. Filled with jealousy, she turned back to her files.
    She was going to nail this.

Chapter One

    Going to Windswept with Caitlyn had to be the stupidest thing Zach had ever done.
    It was a disaster waiting to happen. It was the most likely decision to shred his heart into little bits and scatter them to the wind. It could blow his cover. He had to pretend to be dragged along as a favor to a friend, and disguise his interest in Rex’s new venture.
    All the same, he couldn’t not do it. First, Caitlyn had asked him to do her a favor by accompanying her to the fulfillment of her fantasy. Secondly, Rex had called him out of the blue. How like Rex to guess that Zach was ready for a more permanent arrangement.
    How like Rex to guess he would be attracted to Caitlyn. Rex hadn’t known they knew each other, at least not officially, but Zach had wondered before whether Rex knew more than he let on. Zach couldn’t see how The Phoenix could fulfill both his and Caitlyn’s fantasies, but he wasn’t going to turn down the opportunity.
    Even if it meant more lies between himself and Caitlyn.
    Zach was curious as to how Rex and his team intended to bring Luke back from the dead. It was possible he’d be able to console Caitlyn some more. It was possible he’d meet someone here that distracted him from Caitlyn, although that seemed unlikely. It was possible he’d enjoy a few hot scenes that would give him some release.
    He couldn’t even imagine that he might have a scene with Caitlyn. The very idea made him dizzy.
    But there was no denying that just being on Windswept had him pumped. He felt that familiar tingle, the one that had sparked whenever he’d gone to The Plume. His body was ready to play.
    Maybe they were going to deliver Caitlyn to him on a silver platter.
    That would work for Zach.
    Zach stood in his room in the manor on Windswept Island and marveled at his own reflection. He looked like a totally different guy, now that he was dressed as a late nineteenth century gentleman.
    If nothing else, The Phoenix made it authentic. They’d spared no expense in making a visit to the island a journey back in time. He should