The Kaupe by A.J. Llewellyn

Author:A.J. Llewellyn [Llewellyn, A.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Total-E-Bound Publishing
Published: 2013-02-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Flávia was pleased that Dino was spending the day with Alek. It gave her free use of the car, for one thing.

“I’m going back to the Shore Bird,” she said. “I have to see Phil.”

“Don’t do that,” he urged her. “Play it cool.”

“Do you know me at all?” she cracked. “I don’t do cool.”

No, she did not. Which perhaps explained why she was still single…

She also had other motives. She was hoping Alek was planning to visit the artist he’d mentioned. She drew Dino aside and asked him to be her official spy.

“If his work is any good and you think I should represent him back in the States, put a good word in for me, will you?”

He mentally shook his head. It was no use telling her they were in the States. Hawaii just wasn’t on the mainland.

Alek’s limo dropped the others back at the condo building.

“I need a nap,” Colin said. Dino was in shock. The visit to Shangri-La hadn’t been exhausting. Far from it. It had been invigorating.

“Do you get the idea that a nap is code for having a quick fuck?” Alek asked him as soon as they were alone.

Dino laughed. “I hope so. I really hope he isn’t going back to his room to nap.”

Alek grinned at him. “I know we’ve missed lunch but I have an appointment with the artist I told you about. I’d love you to meet him. I think you’ll really enjoy his work. I figured we might drive out to Sunset Beach where he lives, check out his art and then have a late lunch out by the water.”

“Sounds wonderful to me.” Dino meant it. He leant back in his seat, enjoying the glass of champagne Alek had handed him. They talked about the magnificent house they’d just experienced then their conversation turned to the Middle East and Alek’s experiences there.

“My boss is very liberal when he comes to the US. He lets his wife buy all the latest fashions, all the latest magazines, but when they reach home he makes her leave all her American magazines on board the jet.”

He grinned as he recalled his boss’s son purchasing a DVD of the TV series Baywatch and how he’d been the envy of his friends for owning moving images of all those hot women in their infamous red swimsuits.

“I thought Jeddah was more progressive than some other Saudi cities,” Dino said.

Alek shrugged. “Not really. I think there are aspects to it that seem that way because so many foreign embassies used to be there.”

“I worked with an actress who was dating a Saudi prince and when she went there to visit him she stayed in an American compound,” Dino recalled. “She had to buy a special burqa that she had to make sure covered her feet. She told me her ankles were not allowed to be exposed.”

“That’s right. Women aren’t allowed to walk around alone there, especially foreign women. They have to have a male accompanying them at all times.

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