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“Aww, has the captain ruined your fun,” she teased as she wriggled out of my arms, giggling as she did so.
“Too fucking right, he has!” I huffed as Anastacia was already out the door walking towards her seat. “Thanks for the support, love,” I called after her.
“You’re most welcome,” she threw back with a bout of laughter.
We pulledinto the private driveway. I noticed there wasn’t another house around for a few miles, so we would be pretty secluded, and that was something I didn’t mind in the slightest. Tall trees shadowed the driveway as we passed them. Lorenzo watched me from the driver’s side as my face lit up like a Christmas tree as we got closer. As the villa came into view, I noticed how grand it was, standing at three stories high. It looked too big for what we’d need for the two of us, but I guess it was our honeymoon.
Lorenzo parked up just feet away from the door and I glanced up at the stone building. It was traditional, authentic and beautiful. There were wooden shutters on every window, and steps on either side that led directly up to the front door with a quaint balcony on the third floor overlooking the countryside we had passed on our way down the private road.
“What do you think?” The early morning sun lit up Lorenzo’s sculptured face as he pressed a kiss on my knuckles.
“I love it!” I smiled. The tiredness I felt had now been replaced by pure excitement.
“You don’t want to sleep, do you?” he teased.
“I’m too wired to sleep and, besides, we slept on the plane!”
I jumped out of the car and made a beeline for the front door, only to be stopped in my tracks by Lorenzo’s booming voice. That was definitely something I can live without this early in the morning.
“Anastacia Ricci, don’t you dare walk up those stairs,” he called as he rounded the car.
“What? Why? And did you just full name me?”
“Damn right I did, Anastacia Ricci. We do this the right way or not at all.” I looked at his smirking face, a little confused, until that smirk was replaced with a mischievous grin that would make the devil jealous. He threw me over his shoulder like a ragdoll as he carefully walked up the stone steps.
“What on earth are you doing?” I called from behind his back.
He didn’t answer as he turned the key in the lock; I could hear and feel him chuckling as it vibrated through my body.
“I am carrying you over the threshold.” He laughed.
“Forgive me if I’m wrong, but this isn’t the traditional way to carry your wife over the threshold.” He carefully placed me on my feet on the porcelain tiled floor.
“Since when have we ever been traditional,amore, hmm?”
“That’s true.” A smile formed on his lips, and I pecked them hastily.
“So, what do you fancy doing today? We can have some breakfast and then head to the beach for a while?”
“The beach?” I had always loved the beach, the sounds of the waves lapping against the shore soothed me as much as sitting amongst my mother’s flowers did.
“If that’s what you want to do, then yes, we can head to the beach.” He smiled before he hurried out to the car to retrieve the two cases.
“Here, let me take these upstairs and unpack. You can make us some breakfast.” I went to take the cases, but he held them out of my reach. “Lorenzo, stop fucking around, give them here.” I sighed, frustrated.
“I’ll carry them upstairs, not you.” He titled his head to the side with that cocky smile, the same one I couldn’t work out if I loved or loathed.
“I’m not fragile, I can manage to carry two cases up the stairs.”
“I’m sure you can but that doesn’t mean I’ll let you.” Before I could protest, he was already halfway up the stairs laughing with each stair he took.
“Prick,” I muttered under my breath.
“I heard that.” He laughed.
“You were meant to.” I rolled my eyes as I moved towards the double doors that led out to the private pool. The early morning sunlight twinkled across the water, the birds chirped a beautiful melody in one of the nearby trees, and the sea air invaded my senses as I realised that we weren’t far from the beach.
“So, what do you think?” Lorenzo asked from behind me. He might have thought he was in stealth mode, but I could hear him the moment he reached the bottom of the stairs, the house and garden were too peaceful not to.
