Unwanted Heat

He reaches down and pulls the blanket over us before lying back down next to me. His one arm is under my pillow while the other rests across my stomach. I have a brief thought of finding my underwear and redressing, but when he leans over and kisses my cheek, the only thing I can think about is how right his arms feel around me.

“Kenzie? Kenzie wake up…” I hear a voice pulling me from a deep sleep.

“Hmmmmm?” I moan, not quite ready to wake up.

“Kenzie! Come on, wake up, we have to leave in a few minutes!”

“Hmmmm?” I reluctantly open my eyes to find Nicholas kneeling in front of me. It takes me a moment to realize that I’m still outside on the bed where we… slept last night. The memory comes rushing back to me and I feel my face blush deeply.

“I put a set of clothes in the bathroom for you; I need you to get change and do anything else you need to do so we can leave in a few minutes.”

“It’s still dark out, where are we going?”

“It’s a surprise, go get dressed.”

I reluctantly sit up and stretch, at which point my bathrobe opens and I watch Nicholas’s eyes fly to my chest. I look down, thankful that at least my breasts didn’t pop out of the nightie. I quickly tie my bathrobe back up before standing up. He takes my hand as I step from the platform that the bed is on.

“I can’t believe we slept outside all night,” I can’t even remember falling asleep, but obviously at some point we did.

“I didn’t want to wake you to bring you inside and since it wasn’t cold, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to spend the night out here.”

“What time is it anyway?”

“Just before five.”

“UGH.”

“Go get changed, don’t worry about breakfast, we’ll be having that in a little while.”

Nicholas escorts me to the bedroom with his hand on my lower back the entire time. I’m keenly aware that I’m not wearing any underwear under my nightie. If he remembers this, he doesn’t say anything about it.

“I put everything I thought you might need on the bathroom sink. I have coffee started, but we need to leave in a few minutes if we’re going to be there on time.”

“I’ll be quick.”

Surprisingly, he found everything I would need, including panties and a bra which makes me blush, although it really shouldn’t, given what happened between us last night. I quickly change into the Capri pants and short sleeve shirt that he picked out before using the bathroom and brushing my teeth. Since I don’t have time for a shower, I throw my hair into a quick ponytail. When I walk out to the main room, Nicholas is waiting for me with a small cup of coffee. I don’t tell him I need something about twice this size right now because of how tired I am. I don’t know what time we fell asleep last night, but I know it was late.

Nicholas drives the golf cart to another section of the island that we haven’t yet been to. As we drive up a long dirt driveway, I see horse stables and several horses in a fenced in area.

“Are we going horseback riding?” I ask in surprise.

“I thought since you seemed to enjoy it before, that we would go while we’re here.”

After a quick lesson, I’m on a calm horse, slowly walking down a hill following Nicholas. Like before, the horse seems to know where it’s going, and I don’t have to do very much. We trot through the woods; it’s still fairly dark out, but it’s light enough to follow the trail. Within a few minutes we come out of the woods onto a beautiful beach with no one around us. My horse follows the other horse over to a large tree, where he easily dismounts from his horse before tying it up. He ties mine up next to his before taking my hand to help me down.

“This is beautiful out here,” I take in the sky which is just starting to change colors over the ocean.

“Our breakfast over here is waiting, we should be able to sit and watch the sunrise as we eat,” he explains gesturing to the picnic basket that is further away from the horse.

I follow him over to the small picnic table where a basket is waiting for us. We both unpack the basket with fruit, muffins, yogurt, juice and thankfully more coffee. We sit next to one another on the same side of the table so we can watch the sunrise over the ocean. It truly is amazing to watch the sky turn so many different colors just before watching the sun rise from the horizon. I’ve never experienced anything like it before, and I don’t think anything will top it. Not only are we watching this beautiful thing happen, but we are doing it alone. There isn’t a single person around that I can see.

“That was really amazing, thank you,” I lean over and kiss him. What starts as a simple kiss, quickly turns into more when I feel his tongue at my lips. I moan against his mouth as he pulls me against him so I’m sitting between his straddled legs on the bench. When the horses make a loud noise, we both pull away from each other, laughing at the distraction. “Come on, we still have the rest of the trail,” leading me back to the horse, he assists me in climbing on before readying the horses.

We spend the next couple of hours exploring the island on horseback. The horses led us on a route they are obviously very familiar with, but one that included walking on the beach, through the woods and even along a small stream. The entire time we were out, we never saw another person, which is something you definitely don’t expect. I couldn’t help but think how nice it was to get away from the paparazzi that I know are waiting for us back in New York.

We spend the rest of the day at the villa except for dinner when we venture to the main area with the restaurants.

“Mr. Parker, Mrs. Parker,” Carter greets us just as we are seated for dinner.

“Carter, Julie, how are you?” Nicholas asks.

“Very good, sir. Thank you again for-”

“Don’t mention it, Julie, you deserve this vacation just as much as Carter does,” Nicholas interrupts.

We chat for a few minutes before Julie and Carter head back to their room. We order drinks and dinner, before discussing our plans for the last few days of our trip. We make plans to go kayaking and hiking, but otherwise, we don’t decide on anything firm. I think Nicholas is enjoying not having a schedule to follow like he does when we are in New York. “Shit!” he exclaims, glancing at his phone.

“What’s wrong?”

“Seems I need to deal with something when we get back to the villa.”

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“Yeah, we… there’s a company that I’ve been looking at signing for the last few weeks. I thought this could wait until we got back, but it seems like there is another company also submitting a proposal, so we need to move quickly.”

“Do you need to go back to New York?”

“No! I just need to spend a few hours tonight reviewing spreadsheets and a report that Alex sent. I need to decide if we should make a formal proposal or let it go.”

“We can head out now. Let’s just have them box up dessert.”

“Okay.”

For the first time since we arrived in Fiji, I go to bed alone after changing into yet another revealing nightie. Nicholas comes to bed at some point during the night; I only know this because he is there when I wake up to use the bathroom before falling back to sleep.