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“I have an idea that can help us forget any sadness,” he says, smiling at me as he bends low to pick me up, throwing me over his shoulder.
I can’t help but laugh as I dangle over his body, trying to steady myself by holding onto his broad back.
“Tiero, let me down,” I protest.
“I will, princess,” he replies, smacking my bum playfully. “When we get to the bedroom.”
“You’ve got a one-track mind, Signor De Marco.”
“I sure do,” he agrees with me. “But so do you, Miss O’Neil, so do you.”
Well, I can’t argue with that. Since Tiero has entered my life, I have turned into a bona fide sex maniac. Good thing I’m leaving tomorrow. I couldn’t sustain this forever.
When we get to the bedroom, he throws me onto the bed, and I bounce a few times. Tiero then quenches his insatiable thirst for me, and we don’t emerge until a honking from the yacht tells us it’s time to go.
I take one last look at the place where I spent some of the happiest hours of my life. With a heavy sigh, I jump onto the jet ski, holding on tight to Tiero as he revs the engine a few times.
As we leave this sanctuary, a single tear escapes and slowly tracks down my cheek.
Goodbye to this island, goodbye to this vacation, and goodbye to the happiness found in Tiero’s arms.
One last night is all we have left.
Chapter Thirty-One
Ella
Thecarridetomy hotel is made in complete silence. Night has fallen, and we had a wonderful last dinner on my namesake yacht.
We’ve spent the hours it took to return to Sicily cuddled up together, dozing. We’re both tired, but don’t want to waste what precious little time we have left together.
We made love once, and it was soulful. I clung to him the entire time, only too aware that our time is running out like the last grains of sand in an hourglass.
My throat constricts.
After tonight, I might never see him again.
Unshed tears brim in my eyes, and I’m struggling to swallow down my emotions as I snuggle deeper into the warmth of Tiero’s embrace.
His arm is tightly wrapped around my waist, holding me close to his body as I watch the dimly lit scenery shoot by outside. I’m cocooned in his strength and care, but come morning I’ll leave it all behind.
Despite my best efforts, a big fat tear rolls down my cheek, and I let it. When my plane takes off tomorrow, I’m leaving a piece of my heart and a big, bright, unmanifested possibility here with him.
When we arrive at my hotel, it seems like eons since I’ve been here. I feel like a different person is returning. Only a few days have passed, but it might as well have been a decade.
We take the elevator up to my floor, Santino and Alonso shadowing us. Once we step out, they remain there.
Always the gentleman, Tiero carries my bag and opens the door for me, and we step inside. If I thought his stare was intense before, it’s belittled by what I see in his eyes now.
No words enter my mind. Shiver upon shiver runs through my body, and my hands start to tremble.
We just stand there looking at each other as an eternity ticks by. He has not uttered a word since the door closed behind us, his gaze unwavering like a laser beam pressing on my soul.
This is insanity.
But I can’t look away, held prisoner by whatever is going on.
Both our chests are heaving as if we had run for miles, but we haven’t moved a muscle.
