KAWAII HALE PUTS HIS palm on Abby Goodwin’s lower back and wakes her. Without a word she slips out of his bed and follows him in the faint moonlight into his backyard. They sit hip-to-hip with their bare feet in his shallow wading pool and talk only in whispers.
“It’s been an incredibly difficult day,” Abby says. “I don’t think Nathan is going to make it. Moe’uhane can still survive without Nathan. But it could not lose both of you. You are the other backbone. You can keep it alive.”
“I want to tell you something about Nathan,” Kawaii says. “It’s something I never expected to tell, but it may be the reason behind what he has done.”
Abby puts her arm around Kawaii’s broad back. “I am only telling you,” Kawaii says. “You won’t say it to Campbell or Miguel, do we agree?” Abby li
