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She was quiet. There wasn’t much to say in response to that, I guessed.

I ate my coconut in silence for a few minutes, trying not to think too hard about the pilot. Much as I resented the guy, I didn’t want him dead. And besides, if he was found, he could help his rescuers figure out where we were.

I was pulled from my thoughts by a drop of water on the back of my hand.

I looked up. Clouds had gathered above us. “Shit.”

Olivia looked up too. I saw her twitch as she felt rain on her face. “That’s going to put our fire out…”

“Grab the wood.” I got to my feet. “Get as much as you can.”

“What are we going to do?”

“Head up there.” I pointed. “It looks like there’s a cave, and we might be able to take shelter in it. We need to do what we can to keep this wood dry. If it’s going to rain—“

She already understood where I was going with that and was gathering wood up in her arms. A moment later, we were running toward the cave.

We reached it a few seconds before the sky broke open.

I swore as I watched my fire go out. A cold wind whipped across the beach, and without thinking, I moved closer to Olivia and put my arm around her.

I thought she might move away, but she leaned closer to me, and the shock and horror of the past hour began to settle over us.

Chapter 14

OLIVIA

“You’reshaking,”Jakemurmured.

I’d been trying to hide that fact for a while, but I had given up. There was no hope of disguising the tremors that had wracked my body. I would never have believed I could be this cold on a tropical beach.

“I wish we could have the fire,” Jake said, tightening his arms around me. “But there’s not enough room in here. Even if we could manage to build it, the smoke would make it too hard to breathe.”

I nodded and rested my head on his shoulder, trying to make myself relax. This night couldn’t last forever. Eventually, the rain would stop, or the sun would come out—hopefully, it would be both—and we’d be able to build our fire again. At least we’d gotten the wood into the cave so that they would be dry.

I hated to think how horrible it would have been to get out of here in the morning only to find the wood all waterlogged.

“Why is it so cold?” I asked Jake.

“It’s the wind off the water,” he said. “We should have grabbed your jacket.”

I remembered the blazer I’d been wearing when we landed. I had taken it off when I’d started looking for firewood. It was probably miles away by now. I didn’t think I would ever see it again.

“Come here.” Jake wrapped his arms all the way around me and rubbed my body, trying to warm me up.

“How are you so warm?”

“I’m bigger than you are. My body holds heat better. Stay close. Don’t be too proud.”Pride was the furthest thing from my mind at the moment.

“Do you really think we’re going to be rescued?” I asked.

He was quiet for a moment. “Not tonight.”

Even though it was obvious by this point, hearing it still made my heart ache. I burrowed closer into him.

“It’s all right.” His hand moved slowly up and down my back. “You’re fine. We’re going to be fine.”

I didn’t know how he could sound so sure of that, but at the moment, believing him was preferable to letting my fear get the better of me, so I held him tightly and buried my face in his shoulder.

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