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“She was just acting happy and okay to make sure you all didn’t worry about her. I know Elle. She wouldn’t fall for a man who was treating her so terribly. You are wrong about this.”
Liv started nodding, “You are probably right, Cecilia.”
Exhilaration
I smiled to myself as I sipped my coffee and gazed out at the spectacular sunrise greeting me over the horizon of the ocean. The views from this place were simply breathtaking, but that wasn’t the only thing that had put a smile on my face. Waking Elenora with my tongue this morning was pretty fucking great too. I couldn’t help but bask in the light, happy feeling that seemed to be following me around these days. Must be something in the Greek air.
Unlike me, who liked to be up to see the sunrise, it had become pretty obvious that Elle was not a morning person. Waking her with an orgasm seemed to be the best way to force her out of bed and to start our day in a positive way. She needed to have the grumpiness fucked right out of her and I was more than happy to oblige.
I turned my head when I heard the doors slide open and she strolled out in a matching robe to mine, towel tied around her head and her black sunglasses covering her eyes. She yawned dramatically.
“Where’s the coffee?” she grumbled. I chuckled as I nodded to the mug opposite me on the table. She sat down, lifting it to her lips and moaning as she relished in her first taste.
“Morning, Princess. Really living up to your diva nickname there?” I smirked as I looked her up and down. I knew she would be glaring at me from behind those glasses, which only turned me on.
“You are one of those really annoying people that jumps out of bed like a jack in a box, aren’t you? We are on holiday! Why do we have to be awake before the freaking birds?” she moaned.
“Because we are jumping out of a plane today. And I want us to have the best view of the sunrise.”
She choked on her coffee, slamming it down on the table. “What? Today? Now?”
I checked my watch on my wrist, “In an hour, yeah. So, get your caffeine shot and let’s go!”
“Oh dio mio! I don’t think I need this coffee now with the amount of adrenaline running through my veins! What the hell, Alessio! Give a girl some notice!”
“I am. You have an hour. And this was your idea. It is on your list,” I winked, standing up from my chair and making my way back inside to get dressed.
Little did she know, I had an even bigger surprise for her. Luckily, I had my sky-diving licence from a few years ago and was qualified to jump tandem, because there is no way I was putting her life in the hands of another man or even allowing her to be strapped to another man’s chest. We really were going to experience this together.
“I’ve changed my mind! I’ll choose something else!” she shouted and I smirked, shaking my head.
“Is that Elenora Buccini backing out of a challenge?”
She fell silent as I laughed. I thought not.
My hands were shaking like a leaf and I could feel the bile lodged in my throat from the amount of nerves coursing through my body. I don’t think my heart had ever raced so fast, not even when I was kidnapped at gunpoint! Everything in my body and mind was telling me I was about to die. Even though the two very friendly and lovely Greek instructors had gone over the low risk and percentages of fatal deaths before they forced us to sign a waiver, all I kept hearing in my mind was, ‘But there is a risk? And I will be that unlucky 1 in 500,000 that doesn’t make it. I just know I will. It is just my luck.’
“You good?” Alessio shouted over the deafening noise of the plane’s engine as we ascended into the sky, his eyes glued to my face with amusement. He was fucking enjoying this, the sick fuck. How was he so calm? I knew he had done this before, but surely you would still have some jitters when you are about to propel yourself out of a flying object two miles above land.
“Of course I am not fucking good! I am about to die!” I screamed at him. He pursed his lips together to fight his laughter. God, I really hate him right now. This was all his fault. And his stupid lists. Was I really going to do this just to prove a point? Just to save face? What would be the point if my face is splattered all over the ground when my parachute doesn’t open?
“You know more people die a year from bee stings than sky-diving,” he shouted again.
I rolled my eyes and dropped my head back against the metal shell of the plane.
“Ready?” One of the instructors shouted, but I could barely hear him now. He tapped my arm and pointed to Alessio, who had shimmied his way over to me, pulling my body against his as he started to attach our harnesses together.
“What the hell are you doing?” I roared, turning my head to look at him over my shoulder through the clear goggles on my face. He gave me that charming smile that was not charming me in the slightest right now and carried on tying all sorts of belts and buckles around us. One of the instructors came over to check everything and gave Alessio a thumbs up.
“Alessio!”
“Don’t worry! I am qualified, you are in safe hands!” he yelled in my ear and my eyes widened.
“That does not fill me with confidence! Are you kidding me right now? No! Stop!” I screamed as he inched us closer to the door of death that would soon be flung open.
“Hey!” He paused, wrapping his arms around me tightly and waiting for me to turn and look at him. Our eyes locked as I craned my neck and I saw all his confidence and security in those deep pools of turquoise. “You are safe with me. You can be scared, but I’m not going anywhere. I won’t let anything happen to you. Do you trust me?”
I swallowed down my fear as I held his gaze and my heart flipped. In that moment, with his arms wrapped around me, his eyes pouring all his reassurance into my soul, I really did. I really did trust him with my life. I nodded slowly and he smiled. He leaned forward and captured my lips in a brief but reassuring kiss.
