"You thought I didn't know? How do you think Leo found out about us? When he told me about you and his mother I couldn't hide my tears."

"Elizabeth."

"Don't say anything. It doesn't matter anymore."

He took a step closer to me and caressed my cheek with his fingertips. His lips were a centimeter away from mine.

"Don't touch me, Brad!"

"Elizabeth..."

"If you touch me one more time, I'll scream!"

"For fuck sake, Elizabeth! I haven't slept with Patricia!"

"What?" I asked with surprise and a drop of disbelief in what he said. "Don't play with me, Brad. I am not longer the same girl you used to play with."

"Elizabeth, I have never played with you. Well, we played a lot, but other kinds of games... Anyway, I didn't sleep with Patricia. I didn't know you thought that all the time. That night, she and I watched a movie and we fell asleep on the couch. We woke up in the morning just as Leo was going out. We sensed that he was thinking of something else, but I didn't expect him to come and tell you. After that, he returned to the house angry and everything happened so fast. The only right thing I could do as a father was leaving. I knew Leo would never forgive me, but I couldn't hurt him more. I couldn't come to you."

"I... I was thinking..."

"The only woman I wanted, was you, Elizabeth."

As he said this, he grabbed my face and pressed his lips to mine. His kiss was short. Gentle. A tear flew down from my eye.

He moved my hair behind my ear, and still holding my face in his hands, he continued.

"Don't push me away. I failed as a father, but I haven't regretted what we had even for a second. And I haven't stopped thinking of you even for a moment during those years."

I placed my hand on his chest and wrapped the other one around his neck.

"Loving you was the easiest, yet the hardest thing in my life," I whispered right before getting lost in his strong embrace.

"Are you still mine?"

"Always and forever."

In the end, that was true... What I was searching for all those years... The man who can give me everything I need... He has been and always will be, only one.

Without asking me, perhaps because my body was screaming that it wanted him so loud that it could be heard at the end of the world, he took off my T-shirt and threw it on the sand. He pulled my bra down so that my breasts popped out. He started kissing them. His gentle tongue circled around my nipples, and his hands were setting fire to my back.

"Omg, Brad, what if someone sees us?"

"Then they will envy us."

He moved the kisses slowly down my abdomen while unbuttoning my jeans. And while slowly lowering my clothes down to my ankles, his tongue was already there. Where it belonged.

And I felt completed.

I didn't have to tell Brad what to do. He knew what I needed.

I raised my head to the night sky. I gazed at the stars, the summer breeze waving my hair as his tongue played with my sensuality.

Two minutes. Only two minutes were enough to make me explode. A powerful orgasm has taken over my entire existence. That kind that I hadn't experienced in the last five years.

Brad stood up kissing every part of my body on the way up until he reached my lips again.

"Mmm, why so fast, Elizabeth?"

"Because I can't resist your touch."

In a blink of an eye, I took all his clothes off. He lifted me up and I locked my legs around his waist.

"Do you trust me?"

"I do."

Without stop kissing me, he walked right directly to the sea.

The moment we reached the water, he jumped in it with me.

The waves covered us. As we made our way above the water, he kept kissing me.

"Omg, Brad! You are so crazy!"

"You are making me crazy, Elizabeth. You always did." He said removing the locks of hair that were on my face.

"Yeah?"

"Yeah."

"Let's see how much more I can drive you crazy..." I whispered to his ear as I was licking it.

I placed my hand over his cock and started to move it up and down.

Hе bit his lower lip. "Elizabeth!"

I so missed hearing him moaning my name.

He ran his hand behind the back of my head, and with his fingers in my hair, he squeezed it tightly and stretched it back. He buried his tongue in my mouth, intertwining it with mine. I couldn't catch my breath, all I was breathing was him. He was my air. We drifted among the waves, lost in mad passion. Just me and him. And the beautiful night sky.

"Do you still have your stuff in your apartment?" I asked him.

"What is it in your mind?"

"I have one or two things in mind. Or maybe one hundred..."

"So, I guess we'll finish what we started there."

"No, we are yet to begin there..."

"My Elizabeth..."

Brad took my hand and we both quickly got out of the water. He leaned down, took my T-shirt and jeans from the sand, and put them on me. They got wet from my wet body and my nipples loomed underneath my T-shirt.

"What about my underwear?" I asked him as he was putting on his clothes.

He leaned down again, picked up my bra and panties, and as he stood up he paused at my chest level and bit my nipple.

"You will not need them anytime soon."

Then he tucked my panties in his pocket, put my bra around his neck, took my hand again, and we both ran to the hotel.

We entered his apartment, kissing violently, full of thirst for each other.

"What do you want me to do to you, Elizabeth?"

I broke our kiss and went to the closet taking off my clothes through the way. I took out a rope and turned to him, looking directly into his eyes.

He smirked with his devilish smile and approached me.

There was no need to tell him with words what to do.

He took the rope from my hands, wrapped it a few times around my body, and tied my hands.

And the rest was a pleasure. Supreme pleasure.

***

The next morning

I woke up at 7:30 am. Looked like we got some sleep after all. Bradford was not in the room. As a turned around, I saw a note right next to me.

"Good morning, my naughty Elizabeth. I want to let you sleep, but I couldn't do that with that body of yours lying naked next to me, so I am going down for coffee."

He has left me a note. How romantic. Well, not exactly romantic, considering what was written on it, yet romantic in his way.

I stretched my hands and got out of bed with a wide smile. My clothes were on the chair next to the bed, already dry. I put them on, even though I never found my underwear, and went downstairs. I didn't saw Brad in the lobby, but Mr. Barlett and the others were there.

"Good morning." I greeted them after I approached their table.

"Good morning, Liz." Mr. Barlett greeted me.

After that Emma Barlett invited me to join them for coffee.

"How did you sleep?" Zara asked me with a half-smile right after I sat down.

"Thank you," I answered her.

"You are welcome."

"Is this a woman's talk that I can't understand?" Mr. Barlett asked thoughtfully.

"Don't worry, honey. I didn't understand it too." His wife reassured him.

As I and Zara giggled, I heard footsteps behind me.

"Good morning, Brad!" Mr. Barlett greeted Brad who was standing obviously behind me.

"Good morning all." He said and at the same time leaned over me and kissed me.

Not a simple kiss, but a deep, passionate kiss. Which he had no intention to end soon, so I interrupted him.

"Um, excuse him," I said, slightly embarrassed, wiping my mouth.

He sat down next to me.

"Brad, my boss..." I tried to scold him.

"If Thomas has chosen you as his assistant means that you are the right person for the position. Trust me, he seeing you kissing someone won't change anything." He kissed me on my forehead and then turned to Mr. Barlett. "Am I right, Thomas?"

"You are absolutely right, Brad!" Mrs. Barlett answered instead of her husband. "Everybody has a personal life."

Yet, Mr. Barlett took the word. "Brad, how about we let the girls talk about women's affairs and you take me around the hotel?"

"Of course, come on," Brad answered him and they both got up from the table and went somewhere.

I sighed and bit my lower lip.

"Come on, Liz! Tell me everything!"

"Zara!" I felt so uncomfortable in Mrs. Barlett's presence.

Which she has sensed because she turned to me. "Honey, don't feel awkward because of me. You can talk calmly."

"Okay..." I took a deep breath. "Long story short. Bradford hasn't slept with Leo's mother." I paused for a moment. "But anyway, I don't think that changes anything."

"As far as I can see, this has already changed everything..."

"Sex with us means nothing. We meet, have sex and then everyone goes their own way... It has always been like this. Mrs. Barlett, I am so sorry that you witnessed this..."

"You don't have to be worried at all. I don't know the whole story, but what I can say is that love doesn't have borders."

"I am not sure if this is love but thank you."

After we drank our coffee, I went to my room for a quick shower and to change my clothes, and after that, I went down again so to continue with our work. Which was the main reason we were there in the first place.

And the day passed quickly. Mr. Barlett held several meetings in the conference hall of the hotel, Zara visited the manager of a local partner company to sign the contract for the provision of music equipment, and I conducted the casting for the people we needed for the video production we were organizing.

"So, everything is set up." Mr. Barlett congrats on me and Zara at the end of the working day, figuratively speaking. "Thank you, girls, for the well-done job. In two weeks we will send the team to film the production. And now you can indulge in a well-deserved rest. My wife fell in love with the hotel, so we'll all stay for the weekend.  At the expense of the company, of course."

"That's great, Mr. Barlett! Thank you." Zara exclaimed.

I also thanked him and after that, he walked away to look for his wife.

"So... Liz, I see you are finally satisfied..."

"Zara!"

We haven't any time during the day to talk, so Zara used the moment we stood alone to gossip.

"What? I am not hearing from you complaining about this man... This is the first time since I know you."

"Omg, Kelly..." Out of nowhere, I exclaimed, realizing that I haven't called her since we arrived at the hotel.

"Ah?" Zara looked at me questioningly.

"I completely forgot to call her... But she didn't call me either... Strange..."

As Zara was looking at me, she suddenly moved her gaze from me. Then I heard a voice behind me.

"Maybe because face-to-face meetings are better than phone calls."

I couldn't believe that this was actually Kelly's voice. She was standing right behind me.

"Kelly! What a surprise! What are you doing here?"

We both hugged strong. We haven't seen each other for so long.

"I am looking for you, of course," Kelly answered my question.

"Did something happen?"

"Not exactly. I have a surprise for you."

"A surprise?"

At the same moment, a man's voice was heard behind my back.

"Hello, Liz."

"Leo!?"