“What do you think about living here with me? In Spain?”
“Well. I do have a life to go back to,” she say. I don’t want to sound too desperate or eager, even though I am. But I’m more concerned about getting my heart broken. But over what. What I’m doing back home in the palace hardly constitutes the kind of life I want to live.
“Doing what with whom?”
“Cooking food. A job.”
“My woman will never cook or work.”
“Your woman? Since when did I become your woman?”
CHAPTER 13
Lily
He stops and runs his finger along my cheek. “Since the first time I saw you you became mine. And every second that we’ve shared, every moment that’s passed my grip on you has been even tighter, just like you’re grip on me. And now…now there’s no way I can let go of you. You are mine. You must be mine. And I must be yours.”
“Wow,” I say my eyebrows lifting. “Those are strong words.”
“But you can’t tell me they are wrong because you know they are right. You know this.”
I can’t say anything. He’s read me like an open book.
“But I’m not your woman. I can’t just stay here forever.”
“It’s time we change that.”
“Change what?”
His hand comes around from his side and I see he’s got a robin egg blue box in his hand. There’s only one store in the world that uses that color and you don’t have to be Audrey Hepburn to know what store that is.
My hands come to my face and I feel tears forming in my eyes.
“Beautiful, I could own all that you see in the distance…the land the sea and even the clouds. But it means nothing without you. And it’s you I want to share all of it with. All those things. My life. My family. And the family we will create. I want you to be my princess now and forever more. And I want you to be my wife and the mother to our many children. But first please take this promise from me to be your man and to be everything you ever dreamed of, because that’s exactly what I’m going to be for you…and you for me. Let’s take the first step together. Marry me,” he says.
I wasn’t expecting it, but this whole holiday has been so full of surprises I’ve learned to expect the unexpected. And he’s shown me a strength inside myself and a commitment to me like I haven’t felt in a long long time. And I love him for that and I want to keep feeling that. I don’t know much about him, but I do know he loves me and love can get us through anything. And anything and everything is exactly what I want to spend the rest of my life doing…so long as it’s with him.
“Yes,” I say. He removes the ring from the box and slides it on my finger. A perfect fit. It’s the perfect size, very tasteful but I still know I’m wearing it. It will definitely serve as a reminder of the most special moment of my life since I was born, and the official beginning of our lives together and the day we knew we’d create our own lives by bringing children into this world.
He kisses me and pulls me in tight and my fairy tale romance is complete.
Or is it?
“And there’s something else I must tell you,” he says.
CHAPTER 14
Lily
I should have known he was married or something. This was too good to be true.
“There was a reason you may have noticed a few people following us a couple times. Or maybe you checked the Spanish newspaper websites on your phone last night?”
“No. I fell right to sleep. I’ve never had a holiday before so I wasn’t about to spend one second of it on my phone. But what? What do you have to tell me?”
I’m so happy, but I’m bracing myself for heartbreak. I feel like it’s the story of my life sometimes and I’m so tired of it. I just want the bad times to end and I was so damn close with him.
“When we marry,” he begins. “You will be a princess. My princess.”
“Okay,” I say looking at him. “But what was the big thing you had to tell me?”
“Only that. You will become my princess.”
“That’s it?”
“That’s it. You knew all along?” he asks looking bewildered.
“Well, I think it’s somewhat normal for a man to tell his bride to be she will become his princess. It’s a nice thing to say.”
He’s surprised me yet again. I do get my happy ending after all.
“No, I am not telling you something cute or calling you some…how do you call it? Pet name? You will be my princess. I am Prince Leo of Spain.”
“What?” I say laughing. “Okay, I’m Princess Lily of Spain,” I say making an imaginary wave of my hand in the air like Tinkerbell and then doing some sort of Zorro sword thing with my hand. Is Zorro Spanish or Mexican or American anyways?
“No, this isn’t some childhood imagination or crazy dream. You won’t become a princess. You will become the princess. Look,” he says removing his phone from his pocket.
He opens a web browser and I see the lead story on some website called marca.com is, “Who is the prince’s mystery girl?” There’s a picture of us on his Vespa whipping through the streets. I think it was taken just after he bought me that Picasso dress. Yes, it definitely was.
Wait? Is that why he wasn’t telling me many personal details? Is he joking right now? Why was he trying to rush me out of his hotel that first day?
“Is this a big joke?”
“This is no joke. I can promise you.”
“What about that hotel? The one where you’re staying?”
“We must go there tomorrow and make the announcement.”
“At the hotel?”
“It’s not a hotel.”
“It said Marivent Palace. I saw it on the sign on the front gate when we drove away. I needed to have a reference point in case you were kidnapping me.”
“Well, I certainly took you, didn’t I?” he says, his look changing from dead serious to smiling for just a second. I’m waiting for him to follow it up with the, “You almost fell for it line,” but instead he gets very serious again.
“The Marivent Palace is…the Marivent Palace.”
“But that sounds a lot like the name of some hotel?”
He hands me his phone. “Google it.”
I type it into google.es and look at the pictures. Then I go to the Wikipedia page and hit the translate button.
And then I feel my head spinning and everything goes black just as I feel myself becoming weightless as I pass out.
CHAPTER 15
Leo
Most women know way too much about me and spend their time trying to impress me with some list of qualifications or whatever.
Lily knew literally nothing about me and I was the one who had to try and list my qualifications for her!
How crazy was that? But that’s exactly why she’s perfect.
She loves me for me, not for who I am or what family I come from. She’s oblivious to all of it.
“Where am I?” she asks coming to.
“You passed out for a second. I ran inside and got a bottle of water. Here, please take some.”
I give her the water and a few minutes later she says she’s all better. I help her get to her feet, but feel she is strong enough on her own, but still I’m not taking any chances.
I never would with my fiancée.
I walk her from the rocky surface to inside the hotel making sure to keep my hand on the back of her head and keeping her head down.
“What are you doing?” she asks.
“We can’t be seen together like this yet. It’s not proper.”
“Oh. Uhhh, right,” she says. She’s new to all of this, but she’s catching on quickly. She’s a fast learner as I’ve seen over these last couple days.
I get her to the room and apologize for rushing us through the lobby. The hotel is public, technically, although it does serve a very well-off clientele. But still, in this day and age everyone has cameras on their cell phones and we don’t need pictures of us going to a nic
e hotel room hitting the papers or being posted online before the news comes out that we’re engaged.
But I can’t wait any longer.
I have to have her tonight. I made her mine with that ring. It’s official now.
And now I have to make her mine in another way. The one that binds us forever, and starts our journey towards making a family of our own.
CHAPTER 16
Lily
The cool ocean breeze across my face brings me back as I process his words yet again.
I’m going to be a princess.
No wonder everything was planned out so well. He probably has access to well…everything.
And from the look in his eye he wants access to the one thing he’s never had…yet.
Me.
We step out onto the marble open front of our room, if room is even the right word. It’s literally carved into the side of the mountain and unlike anything I’ve ever seen. There’s not even anything to separate our living quarters from the open air. I guess this island is so exclusive and safe, and it pretty much never rains, at least in the summer, that it’s not needed.
And the setup provides the ultimate in freedom. I feel so free, not to mention all the freedoms that being a princess are going to bring.
No more back breaking work in the kitchen where I was working.
No more wondering if I was going to pay the utility bills let alone make rent.
And no more eating sardines for dinner out of a tin can to save money, even while I made such nice meals for our guests. Strangely we got not so much as a discount on our own food.
But discount is just one of the words that no longer needs to be in my vocabulary at all. I’m a simple girl and it doesn’t take much to keep me happy. Just something to wear each day, some food on my plate, and some time each day with him are all I need.
And maybe a glass of wine and a bit of chocolate from time to time and that’s it.
I look back behind me at the bed and see there are two chocolates on it…one on each pillow.
“I wonder how the chocolate tastes,” I say motioning toward the bed.
“I wonder how you taste,” he says moving in closer to me putting his hands on my hips.
He stares into my eyes for a long time before finally moving in closer and kissing me. I love the way his lips feel on mine and I love how he takes his time when he looks at me. It’s like he’s admiring me one second and thirsting for me the next. And that’s not all. A single stare from him can cover more emotions than I ever expected possible.
“Wait,” I say. “I want to take a shower.”
“Me too,” he says.
“Can I go first?”
“We can go together.”
“But I want our first time to be the first time we see each other.”
“It’s going to be.”
“But how if we shower together.”
“His and hers showers,” he says motioning towards where our in-suite bathrooms are.
And he’s right. One for each of us.
“Just do me one favor? The same I’ll do for you.”
“Anything.”
“Come to me fresh from the shower in all your true beauty. Your hair slightly damp still. Your skin glistening. Not a stitch of makeup. I want you just how you are. Perfect.”
I melt into his arms and hug him tight before coming up onto my tiptoes and kissing him one last time before walking into my bathroom.
I feel his eyes on me and turn and wave seeing him still standing where I left him. He hasn’t moved and his eyes haven’t come off me.
He looks hungry and I know when I come out it will be time to feed that hunger.
His and mine.
CHAPTER 17
Leo
I lie in the bed on my back having finished first as I wonder how I got so lucky.
How did I find this girl…this perfect young woman who literally drifted into my life?
What compelled me to swim out there to her?
Life is a series of opportunities and chances, and I sure made the most of mine.
And now I’m going to make the most of making her mine.
I’m going to enjoy every single second of…
Her bathroom door slowly opens but she’s not standing in it.
I wait, saying nothing, as the anticipation builds until suddenly she steps into the doorway looking just how I knew she would.
Perfect, natural and naked.
Without anything inhibiting her beauty. Enhancing isn’t the right word, because her natural beauty could never be enhanced…she’s that perfect. I dislike cosmetics and unnatural things and thankfully she doesn’t need them in the slightest.
She’s a true princess, beautiful from the inside and out.
I motion with my fingers, curling them back towards me and she comes to me.
My eyes scan her delicate collarbone and then her full breasts…the ones that she’d kept hidden from me underneath her swimsuits until now. Teasing me relentlessly even though she didn’t even know she was because she wasn’t trying to. But the sight of her on those boats, in the water, it was too much. It’s got me too worked up and I had to see what was underneath and now that I have I’m even more intrigued, more impressed, and more feral.
Because now I can imagine all the ways I want to touch her…as my eyes drift down across her middle and stop on her perfect peach. Damn her pussy is beautiful and I swear it’s glistening in the moonlight which is reflecting off the Balearic Sea.
The sea which will soon be hers when we walk together down that aisle and the two of us become one.
Her knee finds the bed and then she slides her other knee up as she swings her leg over my midsection and leans in for a kiss, practically mounting me.
But as soon as her lips meet mine my hands find her hips and I quickly flip her over and onto her back and mount her.
I’m the man. I’m the animal. And I’m in control tonight.
Or not…
“I’m going to do my best to give you the romance you deserve, but I can’t promise anything the first few times.”
“The first few times?”
“There will be no sleeping tonight I’m afraid. There’s an animal inside me that needs to be fed and the only thing he’ll bring to his lips is you. The only taste he wants is yours. And I know I’ll never have that thirst for you quenched…that hunger suppressed, so I’m going to very gladly spend the rest of my life on this earth feeding it.
“Morning. Noon. And night.”
“I don’t need you to be gentle. I don’t…want you to be gentle. I want you to take me.”
“I’ll take you alright, because you’re mine now.”
“And you’re mine.”
“That’s right,” I say. “And my body belongs to you just as your body belongs to me,” I say as I slide down rubbing my torso across hers feeling her breasts make contact with the skin of my chest. Feeling her hard nipples graze across my skin making my cock twitch. I know I’m already pre-coming and I want to fill her so bad right now. Just enter her and unleash immediately, filling her with my seed and making our babies together, but I have to try my best to show some restraint. To enjoy.
“I’ve been waiting for you. All my life.”
“It’s your first time?”
She doesn’t answer immediately, just looks up into my eyes. “Yes.”
“As it is mine.”
“Really?”
“I swear.”
“Because you’re always being watched? To avoid scandal?”
“No.”
“Why then?”
“Because all this time I was waiting for you,” I say as my body comes up off hers and I already miss the skin to skin contact.
I bring my lips next to her ear.
“You know you’re mine, don’t you?”
“Yes,” she says.
“Tell me.”
“I’m yours,” she says.
“Forever?”
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