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I just want time alone with my husband.
Cato gives more orders. I guess he can’t shake that off. He specifies the times for dinner and even when to clean. It appears my husband has an entire itinerary planned out for us and knows exactly when we’ll be in the villa.
I step outside the terrace and inhale the breeze permeating the air. I change into a bikini, and I turn around to find him leaning on the doorframe, his hands in his pockets, his eyes shining with endless love.
He pushes himself off the wall and drops onto his knees in front of me. I thread my fingers through his hair as he kisses my thigh and thentrails kisses up my belly, between my breasts.
He cups my neck and devours my mouth with a passionate kiss.
“You’re mine.”
“I’m yours.”
“And I am fucking yours. Your place is just yours, nothing and no one will replace you.”
On the lounge chair, after he basically poured the entire bottle of sunscreen on me, I enjoy lying out in the sun. Fighting was futile; I tried, but I gave in for my own sanity. He surfaces from the pool, grinning at me. I tip my sunglasses down my nose, looking straight at him.
“You will wash this off me. Good luck with that.”
“The fucking horror.”
He pushes himself up on his palms and shakes his head. Cold water sprays on my skin, and he falls on top of me, grinding against me.
“Cato,” I shriek.
He lifts his chin and happiness spreads over his features, warming me from within. I massage his scalp, and he falls asleep with his cheek on my stomach.
My body goes numb, but I can’t bring myself to wake him up. Him finding even a modicum of sleep and peace is rare.
***
After lunch, we hop in a convertible Jeep, surrounded by the scenic landscape, driving around with no clear destination. I hold on to my hat the entire time, while I take in this lush, pale green vegetation.
I dig my toes into the sand and rush toward the sea, undressing the closer I get.
Cato’s right behind me and lifts me up. I yelp when he submerges us both. Pushing through the water, I gasp for air, my mouth still parted in a smile.
I float on my back, his arms holding me up. “Thank you for not giving up on me. I know it would have been easier.”
“I have never wanted something easy, but worthwhile. And you are the worthiest of my life.”
My heart expands in my chest with barely contained happiness.
“I knew you would be a challenge, and I have always imagined my wife to be someone who doesn’t make me comfortable twenty-four hours a day, but who challenges me, makes me question . . . I know the truth of who I am, and if someone like you could love someone like me, no obedience, no lack of headache could be worth it.”
“So, I am a pain in the ass.”
“The one I can’t live without.”
I shove him playfully.
“That first day I saw you, I knew you’d either be my salvation or my perdition. And I realized that’s why Cameron insisted with you. He knew that too.”
I gasp, I knew that guy was hiding how good he is at pulling strings.
“I guess I should thank him. But which of those am I?”
“Cameron knows. The bastard always seems to know what’s best for us. Both . . . the best . . .”
