Craig shifted beside her raising himself up to his elbow to watch her.
“Hi sweetie” she said softly. He listened as she waited for somebody to finish speaking
“I’ll be home tomorrow, promise” He frowned at this
She looked over at him her eyes holding his.
“I love you sweetie….. See you soon”
Craig looked at her with a surprised expression on his face.
“What the hell is going on Kira” he said his eyes confused and questioning
“You said that you didn’t have a boyfriend…. ” suddenly doubts rose within him. Had she been lying to him last night too
She watched him silently for a second
“I don’t have a boyfriend Craig… I promise you that”
“Then who…” he asked
“Please, Craig.”She pled
“I’m asking you to trust me. I promise that I’ll tell you everything” her eyes looked widely at his
“I need you to believe me that there is no other man in my life…..just you…..there never has been” she finished softly
He wanted to ask her more questions, but something in the way she spoke silenced him. He would have to wait until she was ready to tell him. Some sense told him that she would, and that was enough for him at that moment.
He reached over pulling her down to kiss her softly
“OK,” he said thickly “take as long as you need”
The look she gave him back was one which made him gasp his heart fluttering wildly.
As he took her for a final walk along the beach he pulled her into his arms looking down on her soft features which looked back up at him
“Stay here with me Kira. Don’t go. Whatever it is we can deal with it from here, I can’t stand to lose you again”
She sighed a deep longing sound. “I have to” she said her eyes looking back into his blue ones.
As he looked away she added
“But I want you to come home with me Craig…..there is something you need to know. Someone you need to meet”
He looked back at her his eyes thoughtful and questioning
“Is this part of the secret you can’t tell me?”
Kira nodded slowly.
“Yes…. But you need to know. I know that now”
“OK” he answered quickly, happy that at last she seemed to be opening up to him. Placing his arm around her shoulder he led her back into the house, stopping at his office to make some phone calls. She jumped up and down with pleasure as he organised for her and Bill to be upgraded to fly first class with him. Flashing her a warm smile he had chuckled wickedly#p#分页标题#e#
“Seems the least we can do for poor Bill……I’ve had my people running him ragged for the past few days” he added with a twinkle in his eye
“Didn’t want him calling you all the time since you insisted on keeping that damn mobile”
She chuckled back
“Didn’t stop him trying though” she said
He looked at her in surprise
“You’ve talked with him”
Kira gave him a pained look
“Of course not… I promised I wouldn’t”
With a need to be honest with her he added
“I wanted to make him pay too”
Her raised eyebrows made him continue
“I thought you two where lovers”
She sighed
“Craig… Bill and Marissa Thomson are the closest things to parents I’ve ever had since my mum died. He has always been the father that I never had…. You really chose well when you decided to go after Bill”
Nodding slowly he added
“I saw the video of him leaving your room that first night. I saw him hugging you and I assumed that you had been…”
Kira sighed softly looking at him with those wonderful honest eyes
“When you appeared at my room I didn’t expect to see you…and there you were….three years later, you were suddenly in my room. I was upset and he stayed to make sure I was OK. He only did what any decent father would”
He moved around the desk to kiss her softly
“Maybe you’d better phone him now to let him know you’re OK”
She looked up at him in surprise
“But you said….”
He shook his head
“I hope we’ve put that all behind us now” his eyes were intense and pleading, and Kira groaned a long sensual sound and moving into his arms she purred
“How much time do we have before the plane comes?”
He smiled throatily, adding against her lips
“Enough”
Before picking her up and returning to the bedroom.
At 4 in the afternoon they found themselves taxiing away from the island that Kira had grown to love in such a short period of time. This time the return journey saw the two of them cuddled together laughing and joking so much a part of each other.