Chapter 37
Sipping strong coffee, Catalina, Maclean, and Ryan were still seated in their robes on the patio as the sun poked above the eastern horizon. Catalina listened without interruptions or exclamations. Both men recounted every development to her from the past few days, but it was Ryan who spoke the most and related all that had occurred in Malibu, Henderson, and Las Vegas. Ryan was forthcoming with details, no matter how trivial they might seem, even with his physical contact and intimacy with Nathaniel. As he shared the facts about the dinner at the cantina, kissing on the rocks at the beach, and having s*x in Nathaniel's Malibu mansion, Maclean set his foot on top of Ryan's feet under the table to express his understanding and solidarity.
Catalina had her household staff bri
