[Hawaii 01] • Forbidden Love

The sun was just beginning to set as the moon peeked out from behind the trees in the distance. The water was calm and the color of a beautiful summer’s sky. Brandon felt so at peace here and he knew that was exactly what he needed.

Stephen knew it too. That’s why he forced him to take some time off. He was the only one who could get Brandon to do something he really didn’t want to do. He knew him well enough by now. They’ve worked together for twelve years and Brandon trusts him with his life.

Suddenly something nearby caught his eye. As he looked toward the beach from his lanai, he noticed two attractive women on horseback. Both were barefoot and wearing jeans folded up just below their knees.

The one closest to the water had brown hair and was shorter than the other one. She appeared very toned wearing a turquoise print tank top. The other one was a few inches taller, more muscular and curvy with an electrifying pink floral shirt that set off her beautiful blonde hair. ‘What gorgeous hair you have,’ Brandon thought to himself as he continued watching them when they dismounted and waded through the rippled water several hundred feet in front of him. The horses followed close behind as they walked slowly talking all the way down the beach.

For some strange reason Brandon could not take his eyes off of them, especially the blonde. The way she sauntered when she walked held his gaze and he wondered what it would feel like running his fingers through her beautiful golden locks. It was almost as if he had a spell cast over him. She looked like a goddess. He watched them go down the beach for what seemed like a long time. But once the women were out of sight, he blinked his eyes several times. He felt like he had been day dreaming. Had he imagined the two women on horseback he wondered, looking down at an empty beach. Was he that overworked?

He laid back in his beach chair on the lanai thinking of the blonde. Real or not, the possibility of her took over his thoughts. What was so special about her that mesmerized him? He hadn’t even seen her from the front. ‘She might be a dog,’ he couldn’t help think. But he knew. Somehow he knew she was just as beautiful up close. He could only imagine what Stephen would say if he was here. He’d probably pick at him for how he stared at them for so long. He relaxed as he heard the waves in the distance and felt the breeze blowing across his body.