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She walked past the square pool on his massive patio and the outdoor kitchen with its impressive grill and stainless-steel countertops, then continued past the outdoor plush sofa on the lanai and straight into Kai’s house.
“Kai? Are you here?” she called from the doorway, and then took a step in. “Kai? It’s Jun. Here for your training session.”
There was an empty beer bottle on his coffee table. How could he drink beer and still stay fit enough to surf? His phone lay on the table. While she was staring at it, it dinged with an incoming message and the screen lit up.
She didn’t mean to snoop, but the message popped up right there for her to see.
Had a great time last night! the text read, beneath a photo of Kai with his arm around a pretty redhead’s shoulders. The redhead was wearing a bikini top and short shorts and they were at some open-air bar, an upscale one, by the look of the oversize lanterns hanging from the ceiling and the tasteful decor.
What had he been doing last night? Partying? With tourists?
Was this how Kai spent every night? She’d told him to be ready to train and he was out partying the night before? Doing God knows what with perfect strangers?
She was angrier than she ought to be, she knew. She was taking this far too personally, but she’d agreed to train him, and he’d gone off and stayed out late and hooked up with someone new...and she had red hair! Did he even have a type? First blondes and now redheads. The man seemed to say yes to whoever was standing in front of him!
Jun shook her head. She thought about leaving. She could. She could turn around and head right back out again. She should have, too, but something stopped her. She’d made a promise to try to help him, and try she would, even if he clearly had other ideas about what try meant. Then she saw the empty wine bottle on the counter.
She grabbed a trash can from the corner and threw the bottle in it. Then, on a whim, she started throwing in full bottles she saw on his small glass bar. She knew some of the labels of whiskey were probably expensive, but she didn’t care. He needed to get rid of this if he was going to train. When the trash can was full, she set it down.
“Kai!” she shouted louder, heading up the massive open staircase. She found the master bedroom soon enough. The room was darkened by heavy curtains blocking the sunlight, so she could just make out Kai in his massive king-size bed, his bare shoulders visible above his single sheet.
Jun flung open the curtains, and the bright Hawaiian sun flooded the room.
“Rise and shine!” she called.
“Mmph,” he grumbled, and pulled up the sheets, covering himself and his head.
“Kai!”
He refused to budge from under the thin sheet. Jun didn’t know which was worse, the vague smell of man that still hung in the room or the empty bottle of wine on his nightstand. She marched back down to the kitchen and was irritated to find another empty wine bottle there on the counter. She opened his sleek white cabinets until she found a glass pitcher. She filled it with ice and tap water and carried it back up to Kai’s bedroom, where she proceeded to dump it on him, ice cubes and all.
“Ah!” Kai screamed and jumped out of bed, dripping wet and, much to Jun’s shock, 100 percent naked. She couldn’t help but stare, frozen on the spot, as he shook the water off his head. She fixed her attention on his flawlessly chiseled chest, the ripples of his hard abs and the perfect muscled V making an arrow straight to...
Only after she’d gotten an eyeful did she gain enough control of her senses to turn around. She felt a hot blush creep up her cheek. The man made average look small. How did he surf with that much...well, there there?
“Get dressed!” she mumbled, still flustered as she hurried out of the bedroom. “You’ve got five minutes.”
“You dumped water on me! On my bed!” he protested.
“I’ll do it again if you’re not down in the kitchen in five,” Jun called over her shoulder. It was easier to step into her Terminator Trainer persona. It helped her focus on being less embarrassed about seeing Kai in the buff. His bright white short-shorts tan line might have been burned into her memory for all time.
“What time is it?” Kai yelled from inside his room, sounding annoyed. She stood in the hallway waiting and thought if he was angry, let him be. He’d hired her to do a job, and she planned to do it, whether he liked it or not.
