Chapter 351
It was an hour later when Katelina slipped from the bed and tiptoed out of the bedroom in search of a bathroom. It wouldn't be long before the sun was up. The sky outside already had a thin, colorless quality along the horizon. Soon all the protective plates would be over the windows to block the burning sunlight and shield the house's occupants. She could already see some of the island's employees struggling to put them in place.
When she was finished, she slipped through another door to a broad balcony. The last of the night breezes blew her long hair back from her face and tried to tell her stories of others who'd stood on the sandy beaches and bathed in the surf.
She surveyed the lush lawn below and traced the line of palm trees that marched down to the beach. The whole place was almost too perfect.