by Jayne Rylon
Banks pulled out his cell phone and had someone—probably Captain Alex—on the other line instantly. “Are we expecting visitors?”
They’d gotten jumpy after first Waverly’s trouble and then the attack on Sabine. Having people board the Divemaster had been an enormous violation, one none of them would forget anytime soon.
“Ah, thank you.” Banks was grinning now.
“Who is it?” Archer asked.
But Miguel didn’t need to hear the answer. A woman waved from the boat, golden curls flying everywhere. Sabine! She’d come back to him.
He charged across the deck and down the stairs to the landing area, sprinting by the time he made it to the gangway.
Sabine seemed equally ready to be back in his arms. She didn’t bother to wait until the boat had finished docking before flying over the edge at him. He smothered her in a bear hug as he carried her onto the boat and deposited her in the midst of their friends.
After stealing several kisses, he said, “I guess I see why you haven’t been responding to my messages.”
“Sorry, I wanted to surprise you. But there were delays and my luggage got lost and…ugh, you know how it goes when traveling halfway around the world.”
“Why wouldn’t you have called for the private jet?” Banks asked.
She blinked a few times. “I guess I’m still not quite used to the way you all roll.”
“Well, you’d better get used to it.” Miguel crushed her to him. “Because I’m not letting go of you again. How long can you stay? I’m going with you when you have to leave.”
“What if I want to stay forever?” she asked, making his heart start to pound in his chest.
“Can you do that?” he wondered. “Without jeopardizing the drug development or giving up on your career, I mean? Of course you’re welcome for as long as you like.”
She kissed him again, as if she needed to reassure herself they were truly together again.
He knew the feeling.
“Maybe?” She shrugged. “It’ll take some creativity to make it work, and some traveling, but I was miserable without you, Miguel.”
Sabine blushed, as if uncomfortable with admitting it.
“You couldn’t have been any more pathetic than this guy.” Tosin slapped Miguel on the back.
“I don’t know about that.” She toyed with his necklace. “Even if I have to make some serious sacrifices, this is where I want to be.”
Miguel wrapped her up in his arms again, afraid he might be dreaming about this as he had so many times in the past several weeks.
Banks waited until they had settled down a little before asking, “Where do you stand with everything? If you let me know where you are and what needs to be done still, I’m more than happy to help you in any way. I’m sure if we work together, we can arrange anything you need.”
Sabine smiled and crossed to Banks, hugging him as well. “I missed you, too, Banks.”
He ruffled her hair as if she were a little girl.
“Well, I’m happy to say they put our patent through on a rush due to the unusual circumstances and whatever you did to motivate them. Once I had it in hand, the very first thing I did was publicly post every scrap of research I had. I plastered every open source science database on the Internet with pictures, descriptions, chemical compounds, trial results. Everything. I figured that’s where both Heinrich and I went wrong. Trying to keep it under wraps was pointless. This way, no one can try to steal it or say it doesn’t exist or whatever.” She winced. “The drug companies that had been fighting over me and the right to produce any future drug that comes of my work are pretty pissed about it, but I don’t give a fuck. I’m not taking the chance of anything being lost. That information belongs to the world, not people looking to make a buck. Besides, if it’s all out there, there’s no reason for people to hunt me anymore, right? They know everything I know. Or at least that’s how I figured it.”
Archer held out his fist for her to bump. Of course he would approve. It wasn’t so dissimilar to what he was trying to do with his inheritance. In fact…
His best friend made the suggestion Miguel had just nearly proposed.
“Look, no pressure or anything, but why not work for the Banks Foundation? We’ll pay you ten times whatever the next competitive offer is.” Archer waved away her protests. “My only stipulation would be that someday, when the drug is ready, you let us give it away. I want this cure to be available to everyone, everywhere.”
Sabine sagged, as if she’d been too afraid to hope for such a blessing. “That’s what I was hoping for. It’s what Heinrich would have wanted, too, though he might not have had the choice. To fund his research, he would have had to sell rights to a private firm.”
“Or maybe the Banks Foundation would have found him—and you—anyway.” Banks shrugged. “Life is kind of funny like that sometimes.”
Miguel couldn’t keep his hands off Sabine. Not because he wanted to fuck her so bad his dick might fall off soon—though he did—but because he couldn’t believe everything could go from shit to sugar so fast.
“So I’ll start making some arrangements.” Banks never seemed to grow tired of providing for them. It truly seemed to make him happy to give them whatever they needed. “I’ll start with refitting a section of the lower deck for a proper laboratory. Give me a list later of what improvements you’ll require.”
“Honestly…” Sabine smiled then. “The algae is remarkably easy to work with. Kind of like the penicillin of the sea. I thought it over on my flights here and I can’t imagine anything we couldn’t easily get for the ship. Some space, some time, some funding…I’ve got this.”
“What about human trials?” Archer asked. “I realize that could be a while yet, but if we enhance our medical bay, could we do them at sea? Expand the Divemaster Project. I mean, who’s more deserving of a vacation than people willing to put their lives on the line for the advancement of science, while hopefully finding a cure for themselves?”
“Wow.” She blinked. “I hadn’t thought of that yet, but…yes, I don’t see why not.”
Miguel couldn’t believe how amazing she was. He was willing to support her however necessary to guarantee her success. Both for her, and for everyone who would benefit from her work. “And when you need to travel, I’ll go with you.”
“I would love that.” She bit her lip. “There’s something else I kind of had you in mind for…”
Tosin cracked up. “Oh, can I guess? Can I guess?”
“Not that.” Sabine blushed. “Well, okay, yes…that. But something else.”
“How can I help?” he asked.
“As long as I live, I’ll never get the feeling of them obliterating that algae bed from my mind.” She shuddered.
Miguel drew her close to him and held her tight. “Me either.”
“So I think we should start algae farms. Wherever we happen to travel to. It’s easy to grow, as Banks found out for us, but I think we should do some research into how to manage it responsibly, without introducing a foreign species to the natural environments. Somehow, though, we need to create contained grow houses or something to give as much redundancy as possible to the supply.”
“I’d love to take that on.” He started dreaming up systems they could build and implement. Underwater harvest stations that he could service on deep-water technical dives that would challenge him over and over. “Sign me up.”
“Perfect! So…about those trips I might have to take on occasion…” Sabine lit up.
“Yeah, you have one planned already?” he asked.
“Nothing concrete.” She shook her head as if in disbelief. “But I’ve been told that if this pans out, I should expect to attend the award ceremonies for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in a year or two with a speech, prepared to accept since they don’t allow posthumous nominations. They said I could talk about Heinrich as much as I wanted, though.”
“Whoa.” Even Tosin didn’t have a smart ass remark for that.
“Yeah.” She held her hands out, palms up. “I hope no one will mind if I name the drug after him.”
“That’s a lovely idea.” Banks squeezed her shoulder. “I’m sure Marta will appreciate the gesture. Maybe she’ll come check out our operations sometime. And she certainly wouldn’t miss such an important day in your life. If it comes to pass, and I have faith it will, I’d volunteer to be her date to the ceremony.”
“Subtle, Banks. Reaaal subtle,” Tosin teased.
They all laughed. Sabine included. “Hey, leave him alone. I sincerely hope everyone I love finds as much happiness as I have with Miguel. Banks and Tosin, you especially.”
“Are you thinking what I’m thinking,” Waverly asked Sabine.
“Definitely.” They grinned at Tosin. “We should team up to do some matchmaking for our final single divemaster.”
“Oh no. No.” He waved them off. “I’m perfectly fine living this bachelor life over here. Don’t start slinging your relationship cooties on me.”
“You don’t know what you’re missing,” Archer promised.
“But when you realize it, we’ll gladly say I told you.” Miguel punched Tosin’s biceps then spun to Sabine. He’d had enough talking for one afternoon.
Now it was time to welcome her home the right way.
He threw her over his shoulder as he had the first time he’d taken her to the clubroom, then marched below deck to make some more memories. The first of many in their new life together.
Don’t miss the next book in the Divemasters series to see what happens when Tosin meets the woman of his dreams.
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Going Hard – Coming August 9th, 2016
As the last lone wolf of The Divemaster, Tosin Ellis doesn’t plan on partnering up anytime soon. Then his friend Archer commissions an engagement ring for his fiancée…
Jeweler Kahori Akama is sensual, intriguing, and happy to accept Tosin’s help sourcing the black pearls she uses in her popular pieces. As their relationship goes from professional to personal, Tosin also learns Kahori’s family is under the threat of a blackmailer, someone intent on ruining her father’s resort business to lay claim to its valuable property.
Tosin never expected to find a single woman that could slake his sexual appetites, but Kahori surrenders to her raw and primal urges with the natural power of a typhoon strong enough to blow even a veteran sailor far off course. Once he’s experienced loving in the eye of the storm, he can’t imagine being satisfied by less.
Once more, the crew of The Divemaster will do what it takes to protect their own. Especially Tosin, who realizes Kahori’s heart just may be his home.
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Going Hard – Coming August 9th, 2016
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