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I need to draw her out, and so far, I’m not doing a very good job of it.
A grand gesture is what I need. Reservations at some place fancy outside of the resort. A change of scenery will do us good.
I search through the beach bag but don’t see my phone anywhere. I must have left it in the hotel room. I could ask to borrow her phone to text Steffen, but that’s weak, right? Asking to use my wife’s phone to make reservations while trying to woo her…absolutely not. No, it should be a surprise.
“I’m going back to the hotel room for a minute. Gotta pee.”
Kala lowers her sunglasses at me so I can see her disapproving gaze. “I see we’re through the mystery phase of wedded bliss.”
I say nothing and watch her turn to ice as she returns to her book.
My thoughts stew and bubble on the way back to our hotel suite. There’s no way she was faking it with that kiss. She played it off, but I know what I felt. Her nipples hardened, even through the layers she wore. I felt her gasp. I felt her arms tight around me, her breath catching. I saw the dazed look in her eye that made me so ready to scoop her up, haul ass back to the hotel bed, and plow the fuck out of her.
Rifling through my luggage, I can’t find my phone anywhere. I do discover all my clothes have been neatly folded and put away or hung in the closets.
When did Kala have time to do that?
But never mind. Where the hell is my phone?
I search through everything: the baggage, the drawers, the bathroom, even the pockets of the trousers I wore yesterday.
The bodyguard on the veranda of our suite has no answers for me, so I march down the long boardwalk across the inlet that leads to the resort’s main lobby.
There, I find the man of the hour.
Steffen gives me a deep nod. “What can I help you with, Your Highness?”
Through gritted teeth, I tell him, “You can order me a new phone. It seems to have gone missing, and the attendants have no answers.”
Steffen winces. “I see. I am so sorry, Your Highness. I can’t do that.”
“You literally just said anything,” I remind him.
“I did say that, yes.”
“So…”
I wait for him to offer a solution before ordering a new phone.
“I’d be happy to send housekeeping to help you look,” he says, smiling brightly.
Hm.
“No, that won’t be necessary. But I would like you to reserve a table for two for the princess and I. Somewhere suitable for a future queen.”
He chirps even more brightly. “Absolutely, sir!”
I suppose I’ll have to wait for my phone to turn up. I’m sure it’s just fallen under the bed or I dropped it in the cabana after all those gin and tonics. How many? I lost count.
Time to drink some water, sober up, and prepare for a nice romantic dinner. And woo my wife.
16
Kala
“You can’t wear that.”
I peer downward, examining my form-fitting red dress. “Why not? Is there a stain?”
