Esther hurried to her room on the seventh floor, but she didn’t get herself settled. She made phone calls to each of her employees to make sure they’d dropped off their last client for the day and were getting somewhere safe.
Three of them—Henry, Zaylia, and Eamon—were night drivers and hadn’t started their shift due to the storm. They checked in quickly, and she marked them off her list. Henry and Zaylia were here at Sweet Breeze, and Esther was glad for that, as Henry lived in a house that was more of a hut right on the beach.
Jaylani Kawai was a single mom who didn’t need to work. Her husband had died last year, and he’d had loads of life insurance. But Jaylani knew everyone on the island, and she liked the interaction with the people she drove, so she worked while her kids were in sc
