Passion Abroad: A BWWM Billionaire Holiday Romance (5 page)

“
You
do realize that I have a swim suit on? Right?” she asked.

“
Don’t
worry, the place we’re going doesn’t really require much
of a dress code,” he said as they started walking towards the
door.

She
suddenly stopped and looked at him. “Are you taking me to a
nude beach or something?” she asked.

“
You’re
adorable,” he smiled as they walked out of the restaurant.

She
could feel her stomach knotting up as they walked through the hotel
lobby. She didn’t know why she was getting all kinds of weird
feelings with him. She could feel the excitement building up as she
walked out of the main doors. She smiled at the doorman as he held
the door open for her. She put on her sunglasses and crossed her arms
over her chest as Daniel waved down a cab. He looked at her and held
the door open for her. She gave him an appreciative smile and climbed
in. She looked at him as he walked round the car and climbed in next
to her. “La Quebrada, please,” he said to the driver
before he strapped himself in.

“
You
do know I am being an idiot for getting into a car with a stranger,
right?” she asked.

“
Well,
I don’t know how many strangers know such intimate details
about each other,” he said. She smiled and turned to look out
the window. “You don’t have much to say now, huh?”

“
I’m
keeping my comments to myself,” she said.

“
Trust
me, you are going to love La Quebrada,” he said with a smile.
She looked at him and flashed him a smile that reached out to parts
of him he didn’t think possible.

“
I
better,” she said in a flirtatious voice even though she never
intended to.

Daniel
was right. La Quebrada was more than what she expected it to be. It
was the kind of place that you expect to see on a postcard. She was
just in awe of the place. Everything about it was perfect in more
ways than one. Thanks to her job, she hadn’t been out in a long
time and even Daniel could tell she was excited.

“
Someone
really needed to have this vacation, didn’t she?” he
asked. She looked at him as they walked along the beach and shrugged.

“
It
has been a while. I almost feel like a kid taking a first time trip
to Disneyland,” she added as they came to a stop.

“
Come
on, this way,” he said leading her up a sandy trail. “Trust
me on this, Erica,” he said in a soft voice as he took her hand
in his. She sighed and followed him up the trail which brought them
to a beautiful private rocky area.

Erica
was not sure what he had in mind or where he was taking her. As they
slowly climbed up and down the rocks, Erica found herself wondering
whether this was what she had always had in mind when she pictured a
perfect getaway. She gasped when they finally came to a small private
pool enclosed by rocks. There was a canopy of trees hanging over one
side of the rocks giving the rocky resort a perfect shade.

“
Wow,”
Erica said under her breath as she looked around.

“
I
know, right?” he said looking around. She smiled and walked up
to one of the rocks and sat down. He walked up to where she was and
took a seat next to her.

“
I
take it you’ve been here before,” she said without
looking at him.

Daniel
nodded as he looked around.

“
Yeah.
This has always been my small slice of Acapulco. Maybe the reason why
I keep coming back here,” he pointed out. “I don’t
know why but I have always found some kind of peace when I was here.”

“
I
guess this must be a very sacred place for you,” she said.

He
nodded and then turned to look at her. “You know what, I have
never brought anyone back here. You are the first.”

She
smiled and shrugged.

“
And
they say you never forget your first, right?” she asked. He
laughed as he looked at her and nodded.

“
Yes
they do,” he said in a soft voice. There was a long silence as
the two of them looked at each other. Even with her sunglasses on,
Erica could feel his piercing hazel eyes looking into her. She
suddenly looked away when she felt her cheeks flush. She could still
feel him looking at her.

“
Oh
damn, Erica. You’re blushing. Don’t let him see you
blushing,”
she
thought as she looked around the perfect scenery. She suddenly took
off her sunglasses and her cover up dress before she stood up and
stepped out of her flip flops. Daniel looked at her curvy body as she
looked at the water. She could have sworn she heard him breathe a
long low wow when he saw her in her swim suit.

“
Is
this a safe depth to dive in? She asked without turning around.

“
Yes
it is,” he said just minutes before she jumped into the water
head first. She swam a few laps before she finally came up. Her bun
which had now come undone was framing her face. She looked at him and
smiled.

“
Are
you coming in? The water’s great,” she said. He smiled
and shook his head. “What? You bring me out here in the middle
of nowhere and you can’t even indulge me?” she asked.

He
laughed and rested his weight on his hands. “But I have no swim
suit.”

“
You
have some boxers on or something?” Erica asked and he nodded.
“Well, that’s good enough for me,” she said before
she floated on her back giving him a perfect view of her curvy body.
Her hair was floating around her head like a perfect dark cloud.

“
Why
Miss Hayes, are you flirting with me?” he teased.

“
If
I said I was, would you come in?” she asked with a smile.

He
stood up and began unbuttoning his shirt. He could almost feel
himself getting hard with every button that came undone. He did not
understand the kind of hold this woman had on him but seeing her
floating in the clear blue water with her crotch and breasts covered
in the bright lime green fabric was more than enough to get a rise
out of him. He then went ahead and took off his pants before he
jumped in the water. Erica dove down and swam to one side trying to
get away from him but he followed her. He got really close to her and
smiled.

“
What
else don’t I know about you?” he asked.

She
shook her head and shrugged.

“
I
don’t know,” she said in a low voice.

“
Really?
Because I feel like there is something more you are holding out on,”
he said. She waved her arms around in the water and looked at him.

“
I…I
don’t know what to say,” she said as he moved even closer
to her, as if he was not already close enough. She could almost feel
the warmth of his body even in the cold water. He looked at her and
Erica felt her cheeks get warm again. She was blushing again and this
time, she was a bit too close to him. She turned around and swam away
from him.

“
So
we are racing now?” she heard him asking before he followed her
to one end of the pool.

“
What
is this Erica? Why can’t you get your act together around this
guy?”
she
wondered as she swam back to their point of origin. When she
surfaced, she saw him following closely.

“
I’m
sorry if I’m a little fast. Swimming is the only kind of
exercise I have been getting for the last two years,” she said.

“
I
can tell,” Daniel said as she pulled herself out of the water.
Daniel followed suit and sat next to her.

“
I
have to ask,” she started as she squeezed the water out of her
hair. “Why is this place special to you?”

Daniel
shrugged and took a long deep breath before he shook his head.

“
You
know, I’m not really sure. All I know is that I love being
here. It’s nice. And quiet. And private,” he said in
almost a whisper. She smiled and nodded. She totally understood. This
was like his Hollywood sign.

“
The
first time I went to Hollywood, I found myself in the Hollywood
sign,” she started.

Daniel
turned and looked at her raising an eyebrow.

“
In?”
he asked. She smiled
and nodded. “I thought that place is restricted.”

“
It
is but I was in the company of some crazy people and there was a lot
of alcohol involved. Let’s just say I have no idea how
everything happened. All I know is that it did and to date, I still
take the hike even though the authorities say that it is a risk,”
she said with a smile. “It is my special place,” she
added as she looked at him.

Daniel
looked into her big brown eyes and smiled at her. He felt drawn to
her as she was to him. It was almost like there was some kind of
chemistry between them. He shifted his weight getting himself closer
to where she was.

“
Somehow
I feel like we are a kindred spirit,” he said in a low voice.

She
nodded and forced a smile.

“
Yeah,
kindred spirits,” she echoed as he got even closer to her. She
wanted to move away but there was some kind of magnet holding her in
place. She couldn’t move. She could feel her heart beating hard
as he brought his face closer to her, almost too close. She was
almost in a panic as she felt his warm breath on her cheek. But even
then, she didn’t move away. She closed her eyes when she felt
his lips brushing against hers in a soft slow kiss. This would have
been the first kind of male attention she had received in almost
seven months and it was doing things to her body she never thought
possible. When he finally pulled away, she was almost a mess. She was
like butter in his hands. He would have done anything with her and
she would have let him. It was almost a full minute when she finally
got the courage to pull away from him. She had her eyes closed and
her cheeks were flushed. “Um…I’m sorry…”
she stammered. She was not very sure what she was sorry for but she
knew that it was probably not a good idea for her to be there.

“
No
need to be. I should be the one apologizing,” Daniel said as he
looked at her. Erica’s eyes were darting to and fro as she
wondered what she was supposed to do next. She didn’t know the
way back to the beach. She reached for her cover up and put it on
making Daniel wonder whether he should have taken a few more minutes
before he moved in for the kill. “I’m really sorry…”
he started but she was already on her feet putting on her flip flops.
Her wet body was already clinging to the cover up making her curse
herself for jumping in the water in the first place.

“
This
was a bad idea,” she muttered under her breath as she looked
around. “A really, really bad idea,” she was now trying
to retrace her steps but it was like her mind was blank. She couldn’t
make out what was happening. She just wanted to be away from that
place. After all it was
his
place.

“
Are
you okay?” Daniel asked as he stood up. To him, she looked like
a confused woman who had just woken up in some strange man’s
bed.

“
Yeah,
I’m just trying to figure out how we came up here,” she
nodded and looked around.

Daniel
grabbed his shirt and put it on.

“
I’ll
show you,” he said.

“
No!”
Erica said a little too loudly surprising even herself. “I’m
sorry…I just…” she started as Daniel pulled his
pants on. She looked at him and put on her sunglasses.

“
There
is no way you can find your way back to the beach without my help,
Erica,” Daniel said as he zipped up his pants. He felt strange
putting on his clothes with his wet boxers. He knew that by the time
they got to the beach, he would look like he peed himself but he
didn’t care at this point. He had never seen anyone this
agitated. If he knew this was going to happen, he would have never
asked her up here let alone kiss her. Unlike the walk up to the pool,
the walk back to the beach was surprisingly quiet. When they finally
got to the beach Daniel looked at Erica and asked if he could call a
cab.

“
No…no.
I’ll just go,” she said before walking off leaving him
standing there, stunned.

“
The
cab station is this way,” Daniel called out as he looked at
her. Erica stopped in her tracks and turned around. She walked up to
where Daniel was and he was trying as hard as he possibly could not
to laugh as he pointed her to the direction of the cabs. It went
without saying that Erica wished she could just fly out of there.

Throughout
the drive back to the hotel, Erica was cursing herself for being so
vulnerable. She hated that she was so weak in Daniel’s
presence. Or was it that all that time she had stayed celibate was
actually catching up with her. She was breathing hard and deep as she
walked into her room. She walked to the bathroom and grabbed a towel
before she collapsed on the bed. She was cursing herself for more
than a thousand reasons.

“
What
the hell were you thinking?”
she
wondered as she looked at the ceiling.
“At
this rate you could have very well let the mailman feel you up.”
She shook her head and
got up from the bed before she walked to the bathroom. She turned on
the water and stripped off her swimwear before she stepped into the
water. She closed her eyes and ran her fingers through her wet hair
as the water ran down her body. She wanted to talk to someone, needed
to talk to someone but knowing her sister, Emily would have probably
loved the whole thing. After a shower that took almost an hour, she
stepped out of the bathroom and toweled herself up before she sat in
front of the mirror. She took a long deep breath as she dried her
hair out, every minute wondering why she was feeling like such a
mess.
“Maybe I am
just being too hard on myself,”
she
thought. But then she brushed the thought off. That was exactly what
Emily would have said. Cassandra would have probably come down to
Acapulco to slap the silly out of her because according to her, Erica
was trying to live her life down rather than living it up.