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family. The official reports made it so and saved her
family all these years. She’d not do anything to put them in harm’s way. Not
even her best friend, Cori, knew the truth about her life. While it hurt Des to
lie to Cori, it hurt her even more knowing she’d have to continue her lie with
Ezekiel.
    After washing up and changing into
another sundress and sandals, she opened the door to her room and retraced her
steps. She turned right and followed the hallway but it branched off and she
couldn’t remember which way to go. From what she’d seen of the place, the walls
had very similar artwork of sunsets over water. The sounds of masculine
laughter drew her to the right again to find the source. She walked through an
open arch back into the room she’d been in earlier.
    The house was very open, tall ceilings
and lots of windows and light colors. The view in the kitchen area of a vista
of the ocean beyond beckoned you outside. She found it hard to take her gaze
away, but she marveled upon realizing the house appeared built beside a cliff.
One side faced the beach and the water beyond, the other also faced the sea but
a rockier expanse lay between the house and its access.
    “There you are,” Aaron called to her.
    She glanced over in the direction the
greeting came from.
    Aaron and Ezekiel sat around the center
island of the kitchen. The great room flowed directly into the kitchen, the
décor the only thing separating the areas. Seashells embedded in the cement
walls made up one part of the room, creating a mural of a pod of dolphins.
While the kitchen area had white ceramic tiles with pictures of shells and
seaweed on a few of the tiles. But her gaze kept drifting back to the center
island.
    The room wasn’t small, yet the men there
dominated the space making it shrink in size. She paused for a moment to admire
them. Both tall, over six feet, but not overly built like wrestlers, they
looked more like swimmers. Broad shouldered and trim waists. Both men wore
khaki shorts, t-shirts hugging taunt physiques, and sported sculptured arms.
    They rose when she entered, proving
chivalry was not dead. Aaron got to her first and taking her hand, he guided
her to the stool next to his. She happened to glance over at Ezekiel, and saw
him frown as he stared at Aaron holding her hand. What was that about?
    Aaron must have seen the look too because
he grinned at his friend. “We were just discussing the upcoming nuptials,” he
explained to her. At the same time, he reached for a bowl of mixed nuts sitting
between the two males.
    She gazed back and forth at the men.
“Who’s getting married?”
    “Oh, oh,” Ezekiel said.
    “Ah, your friend Cori and Xavior,” Aaron
explained sheepishly.
    “What! Since when? Why didn’t Cori tell
me?”
    Both men shrugged. “Perhaps, she wanted
to surprise you and tell you once she saw you tomorrow,” Ezekiel offered.
    Des shook her head. “I find this all very
difficult to believe. It’s way too fast, don’t you think?” She swung her gaze
to look at one, then the other, expecting them to agree.
    They both merely smiled at her. Like they
knew something she didn’t.
    “My brother has been looking for his
bride—ah to fall in love for a very long time. So, to answer your
question, no, not really. In my family, it tends to happen like that.”
    She scoffed. “What? Love at first sight?
That’s for books and movies.”
    Ezekiel shrugged. “It was like that with
my parents. They were married days after they met.”
    “Mine, too,” Aaron offered.
    She threw up her hands. “This is insane.
What you’re talking about, if it exists in the first place is something very
rare. Yet, you expect me to believe it happened to both of your parents?”
    “Yep,” they answered in unison.
    She tilted away from the counter, because
she couldn’t help staring at them. Shocked. “What the hell! Are they still
married?”
    Aaron nodded. “They sure are.”
    “We lost mine months apart from