Kabana Heat by Titania Ladley

Author:Titania Ladley [Ladley, Titania]
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 1-60504-128-9
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2008-08-05T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Days later, Heloki sat behind his massive cherry-wood desk, his fingers steepled against his mouth as he eyed the chattering young malihini woman sitting opposite him. Nothing would ever again be fine for Nakolo Huaka if Heloki had any say in it. And he most certainly did—or would once he had his brilliant plan set into action.

Anjelee Montrose was a freelance reporter who had only a few notable credits under her belt, but she seemed hungry to sink her claws into the notorious Superstars magazine again, to get a more impressive byline the next time around. For some reason, Jager hadn’t informed Heloki of her connection to the tabloid—perhaps in all the haste to hire her, he’d missed it?—but in doing some probing of his own, she had just revealed it to Heloki.

Jackpot.

According to what Jager had uncovered, it was rumored she had a reputation for hardcore fact-collecting methods that sometimes netted her a story well worth its gossip in gold. Although she wasn’t at the top yet, but rather on the lower few rungs of her career-recognition ladder. Bottom line, she was hungry for assignments her current colleagues in the journalism field seemed to be landing before she could get her greedy hands on them.

Just the kind of motivation Heloki needed to get his sometimes cunning daughter back on track, and that lowlife Nakolo off the island and away from Kiona. What’s more, Heloki had to have some sort of leverage to hold over celebrity Mitch Wulfrum’s head if he didn’t conduct his life with Kiona in the manner Heloki expected of him.

After all, the man was going to be Kiona’s husband. And what kind of groom allowed his bride-to-be to continue to be friends with her ex-lover? Heloki’s only child and heir was beautiful, extremely so. She would be the perfect tool to boost KPCS’s sales in conjunction with the star.

An image of his daughter at three flashed before his eyes, her long midnight hair trailing down her back, and her little body clad in a worn, lei-printed dress. It was in the days prior to the business’s sudden financial success and his building of the current manor he lived in. Tears had sparkled in Kiona’s big golden eyes and trailed down her plump little bronzed cheeks. She stood on the front porch of their small cottage, her thin little arms wrapped around Heloki’s leg, watching as her mother, Wanaka, climbed into a cab without a backward glance.

Wanaka had deplored the backbreaking, dirty work they’d been forced to do in the fields in the beginning when Heloki had struggled to get the cane business up and running. She’d longed for the big-city, mainland life of L.A., insisting her native Kabana—and the hundreds of acres that had eventually grown into KPCS—was nothing more than a primitive, useless place. She had never let him forget it, constantly complaining in her heavy Hawaiian dialect, claiming he would fail and that she would laugh when he did.

Heloki took in Kabana’s gorgeous western-shore view out his window, glanced around his richly furnished, spacious office.

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