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The sunrise woke me early, I looked around to see if I was alone, but the other side of the bed was untidy. Did he dare to sleep in the same bed? Even though I tried hard to remember I couldn’t, and as weird as it seemed, it was the first time I didn’t have any nightmares.
I stood up and went to take a nice warm shower. I put a towel around me to looked in the closet and was surprised to see it was full of clothes. Long dresses, skirts, jeans, blouses, swimsuits...
I was happy to see they were all comfortable, I chose a short dress with white suspenders and printed with blue flowers. Took a pair of sandals and put my hair up with a hair clip. I went out of master cabin to look for him, I found him reading the paper sitting at a half moon shaped table in the prow, it almost looked like a terrace in fresh air but with ocean view, the view was beautiful. When he noticed me he raised his head and right there, my heart was pounding when his beautiful eyes checked me out. I blushed and tried for him not to notice it, but his chuckle suggested otherwise. I sat at the other side of the table feeling uncomfortable.
“Good morning, love.” He murmured in a familiar voice.
I looked at him and he had a mischievous smile on his face, he came closer to sit beside me.
“Hello, Noah.” My stomach was turning, I watched him get a piece of mango and fed it to me, I didn’t even move, I was surprised this gesture was familiar to me.
“Are you hungry? It´s your favorite fruit.
I took one hand into his and with the other took the fruit to put it into my mouth.
“Thank you, I can do it on my own.”
If I blushed before, now I looked like a tomato for sure. I took the fruit into my mouth and bit it with pleasure making the fruit´s juice spill on my lips and fall down my chin. I didn’t have time to react when I felt his finger cleaning my lips, he took them into his mouth and was savoring it while closing his eyes. My heart leaped and a strange warm feeling invaded my body. That gentle gesture and yet sensual, disturbed me completely, I wished badly to be that spilled juice and lose myself completely in his mouth. I shook my head to lose those disturbed images in my mind, I turned my head to look at the ocean to get myself together. The sound of an engine caught my attention; I looked where it was coming from, I stood up and saw that in the upper part of the yacht was a platform. There, a small helicopter was parked, my eyes opened wide.
“Alison, I have to leave on a business matter.” He explained and by the sound of his voice he was upset, I tried to look at him in the eyes. I felt bad about thinking on separating, it was crazy because I didn’t even know him, I told myself. He came closer and looked at me intensely. “Take advantage of these three days and get some rest.” He told me and I nodded.
“Have a good trip.” Truth is I didn’t even know what to tell him, he looked at me eagerly and got closer putting his arm around my waist.
“Is it too much to ask for a goodbye kiss?” He murmured.
I looked at him surprised, I was not expecting this kind of question. Why not give him a kiss? Who could resist him? I told myself.
“I´ll give it to you if you promise to behave.”
“I promise.”
I saw truth in his eyes, and with my heart beating like crazy I stood in my tip toes y put my arms around his neck running my fingers through his smooth hair. I wanted the kiss to be my way, even though I was not sure how to do it, I gave him a soft gentle kiss with my trembling lips. I felt a connection running through our bodies and his addictive scent gave my head a spin. I let go and stepped back, he hadn’t moved at all. He kept his promise and his eyes sparkled a beautiful jade green.
“These three days are going to feel like an eternity.” He murmured.
He turned around and headed to the helicopter, I couldn’t stop looking at him as he was leaving the yacht. I stood still without being able to move and a feeling of anguish and fear invaded me completely. I didn’t know how long I had been standing there, but when I looked up the sky, though there was no longer a sign of the helicopter, I was still looking as if he was going to come back for me.
Night came along with the nightmares, I woke up several times sweating and screaming with fear. The last thing I remembered was the darkness into which I fell without being able to do anything. The next night I forced myself to read to stop me from falling asleep, I was terrified. During the way, I would put on a black swim suit and spent the day in the sun, my skin got a nice tone to it, but my eyes betrayed me. I had terrible dark under eye circles and my eyes were puffy. At times, my eyes would just close when I was out in the sun. It wasn’t for long since I didn’t even have time to dream.
“Mrs. Jefferson, sorry to bother you, but we have arrived.”
I raised my head surprised by the way he talked to me and looked around, there was a waiter who tried not to look at me.
“So soon? I thought we´d be there by first thing tomorrow.”
“The waters were calmed, Mrs. It helped us arrive sooner than expected.” The waited explained. “Your husband is waiting for you.”
He pointed back, I stood up quickly almost running and I went to where he indicated, but I didn’t see him.
“Alison, here!” He called and I went to the rail, I saw him on a jet ski. He grinned and my stomach turned with happiness, I smiled back.
“Did you miss me? Because I sure did.”
Incapable of responding, I could only smile. Suddenly he opened his arms inviting me to go over to him, I looked at him cautiously.
“Come on, jump, I´ll catch you.”
I tried to estimate the height, it wasn’t that I didn’t trust him, I didn’t trust myself.
“I rather do it slowly.”
I got down to get to him, not before going to the master cabin to put shorts on and a turquoise blouse on top of my swimsuit. He looked at me almost laughing, he helped me to sit behind him, and he got both my arms and put them around his waist.
“Where are we going?” I asked curiously, he pointed at an island not far away, I hadn’t even noticed it was there.
“Home, the yacht is too big to get there. It could be dangerous; it could run ground in the corals.” He explained. “Hang on tight.”
I did it without hesitation, and held on as tightly as I could to him. He accelerated and by the way he was driving it I could tell he was experienced. He was so sure of himself and calculated every move to block the most dangerous waves. We finally got close to the beach, but he didn’t drive towards it, he went around it and I could see small fishermen houses and small boats attached to each other on shore.
He kept going until we got to a cliff and stopped the engine, I was confused and looked around.
There, in front of us opened what seemed like a water trail in the shape of an ‘S’, I panicked as I saw the waves hitting the rocks fiercely. I began shaking and held him as tightly as I could, as soon as a giant wave hit us against the rock; “we´re going to die,” I screamed in my head. At the last second, he turned the engine on and accelerated before hitting the rocks and thanks to the wave we zigzagged inside the water trail to finally get to the calm waters. When I was able to breathe again, I couldn’t do anything but to be amazed by the wonderful view in front of me, we were surrounded by mountains with an exotic vegetation and a waterfall, it was just like a postcard. The water was crystal clear and I would see tons of fish in all different colors. The white sand beach was perfect and without thinking about it, I spilled the first thing that came to mind.
“The day God created this was probably to rest.”
“I wouldn’t have said it better myself, you´ve always said this. When did you get your memory back?”