“The point is, you disappeared this afternoon and were unaccounted for—nearly six hours. You think I wouldn’t worry?”
“You worried?”
“Yes. I was worried.”
“Well, as you can see, I’m just fine.”
“Really?”
The stare was lethal, confused and painful. “No, Sean. I’m not fine. I’m not fine at all. I’m beginning to think you were right all along.”
“About what?”
“About my coming here. It’s been a big mistake.”
“What?” he was sideswiped by this unexpected turn. “That’s not true at all,” he exclaimed.
“I think it is. I want out of here, off your island, off the project. I want to go home.” She’d never felt anything so passionately in her whole life.
“Now, you’re sounding like some lunatic female,” he charged.
“And you’re being the chauvinist boar you are.”
“Let’s just calm down.” He sta
