Chapter Thirty-One
Mark
Thursday
“I do not like being up this early,” Justine grumbled while rubbing the sleep from her eyes. Her crumpled outfit said it all. She wasn’t a happy bunny. “It’s still the middle of the night. Why do we have to fly right now?”
“Because then we’ll be there quicker,” I cooed, recognizing a lot of myself in my daughter. Usually, when I had to go somewhere, I felt exactly the same, but this time I was excited. It was a vacation not work. “And you can sleep on the plane anyway. That’s why I hired a private jet, so you can get some privacy.”
I braced myself waiting for her to make another sarcastic comment about being wealthy, but it seemed that she was too tired today. Either that or she just wanted to be by herself without the hassle of dealing with other people. I totally felt the same way. After all the issues I’d had with TSA, I didn’t want to see another face.
Justine turned to see Olivia staggering from her room looking just as weary as Justine. Her bleary eyes had absolutely no makeup on, and she had scraped her hair on top of her head, and she had her sweatpants on. She looked so fucking beautiful that my heart bled. All I wanted to do was drag her back into my bed, but Hudson and his random engagement had me thrown off my game. The seriousness of his relationship confused me and freaked me out a whole lot. I needed to work out what the hell I wanted from all of this.
“Morning,” Olivia croaked while staggering forwards. “How is everyone doing this morning?”
“I’m not happy,” Justine glowered. “I want to go back to bed.”
“Yeah, so do I.” Oliva patted Justine on the back. “But we’ll be on the plane soon enough.”
I flickered my eyes between the both of them almost laughing at the unimpressed look on both of their faces. Anyone would think that I wasn’t taking them away on vacation. I hoped a bit of sunshine would cheer them both up. Otherwise, it wasn’t going to be the best time. I wanted to work this all out while we were away; I couldn’t come back from Hawaii still feeling as mixed up as I did right now.
“Come on then, gang. Let’s go and get in the car, shall we?”
I grabbed as many bags as I could, leaving only a couple to Olivia, and we jumped into the elevator. On the way down, I couldn’t stop my eyes darting towards her the whole time. Her natural beauty continued to lure me in. As much as all of this was very wrong, I couldn’t help myself. Every single time I caught sight of her, my heart skipped about ten beats. My tummy fluttered with butterflies; I felt all happy inside. So much so that it was almost a relief when the doors opened and I got some fresh air inside again.
I bundled all the bags into the car while Olivia and Justine took their seats. Instantly, my daughter curled herself into a ball, and she started to snore. Olivia and I chucked at the sight of her.
On the way to the airport, I found my fingers itching to move towards hers. There was a genuine magnetism pulling me in, begging me just to hold her hand. It took everything that I had not to follow through. I had to keep my eyes fixed out the window all the way there because the outside calmed me down a little bit.
“Oh, my goodness!” Olivia’s eyes almost bugged out of her head as she saw the plane. “It’s amazing.”
I had to admit that I really agreed with her. I didn’t look too much into it when I placed the booking, I just sorted it, but now I was blown away. It was amazing; so luxurious. I needed to take million of pictures of it to show Hudson to try and convince him again that we needed one of these for the business. I would love traveling if I could go like this all the time. I would be booking trips all the freaking time.
“Yeah, it’s pretty great, isn’t it?” I slid out of the car and stretched out my back while I looked at it. It towered above us, already looking like the life of luxury from outside. “I’m so excited.”
The airline pilot and the driver helped us to get the bags packed into the plane while I carried a sleeping Justine into her seat. I knew that she would love this plane too, but I didn’t want to poke the bear. If she wanted to sleep then so be it! Once she was settled in a reclined large chair, I grabbed my cell phone out of my pocket and I took a bunch of snaps. I almost sent them across to Hudson right away, before I remembered that he was on his way to Tokyo to meet his fiancée’s family. That was still really weird to me; I couldn’t recover. He was getting married to someone that I didn’t even know. He had made that decision without a moment of hesitation.
“This is nice.” Olivia shuffled back in her seat and smiled, finally looking a lot more blissful. I guess the early morning didn’t matter so much when she could get a good night of sleep. “I love this plane, I want one.”
“Oh, so do I.” I let out a belly laugh. “I hope the place in Hawaii is just as nice too.”
I let my eyes slide closed while I wondered what life would be like in Hawaii. Not just for Justine, who I felt certain would have an amazing time, but for me and Olivia too. I knew what I wanted; I had the urge to spend all my free time in bed with her, but I also needed to work out where my head lay.
***
The flight to Hawaii was uneventful. Mostly, we all slept on and off. I had a nice glass of champagne at one point, and I definitely sparked more interest in a private plane for myself, but I was glad to land too. I couldn’t wait to get my vacation started now; it was going to be amazing.
The car was already waiting at the airport to take us to the villa, which was good because it didn’t seem that Justine was quite ready to wake up just yet. I hoped that the sight of the white beach and green-blue ocean would wake her up again. I certainly couldn’t wait to get in it myself.
“Oh, my goodness,” Olivia gushed as she pressed her face up against the window. “I’m so glad I brought all of my bikinis. When I packed, I thought that it was too much, but now I’m so glad. I won’t be in anything else.”
Oh shit. The thought of her in bikinis the whole time made my mouth water with desire. I wasn’t sure that I would be able to control myself under the pressure of it all. How the hell would I keep my feelings private? Even Justine would be able to see how much I felt for Olivia! This would be a challenge… worse than I expected.
“Hmmm.” Justine stirred and pried her eyes open. “Are we nearly there?”
“We’re here,” I replied. “Why don’t you take a look out the window?”
She pushed herself up into a sitting position and gasped with sheer delight. “This is Hawaii? I love it.”
Watching my daughter’s eyes shine with delight pushed any other thoughts out of my brain. This was a good idea; I knew that now. This was certainly something that I need to do more often. My mind was already racing, trying to work out where we could go next. Tokyo, for sure, but other places too. England, Indonesia, Florida… the whole world was available to us and I freaking couldn’t wait to get started.
“Oh look.” I pointed out the front window as I saw the villa. “That’s where we’re staying.”
“It’s right near the beach.” Justine couldn’t sit still. She bounced up and down in her seat and almost screamed. “Can we go to the beach right away? Can we? Can we? Can we? Please?” No longer was she the sullen girl who I once stayed at work to avoid dealing with. The change was incredible. “I want to go in the ocean.”
“Well, the villa has a pool…” I would have preferred to be there than the beach; sand wasn’t my favorite.
“Oh, no,” Olivia jumped in. “It has to be the beach. We can’t be in Hawaii at the pool.”
I felt defeated. I already knew that I wasn’t going to get my way at all on this vacation, but it wasn’t about me. I was more than willing to do whatever they wanted so Justine had a good time. I might not love the sand as much as them, but I would put up with it for them. I loved the heat of the sun anyway. It wasn’t going to be awful.
“Alright, alright. Whatever.” I rolled my eyes and laughed. “We’ll go to the beach. I can suck it up, I suppose.”
We piled out the car quickly and went to our villa. I tossed my suitcase onto my bed and opened it only to pull out my swimming stuff. I wouldn’t get into the ocean, I would leave that to the girls, but I could sunbathe. Anything to see that shining smile on Justine’s face and the sparkle in Olivia’s eyes.
Unsurprisingly, Justine and Olivia weren’t ready as quickly as me, so I grabbed a drink of something fruity that had been left in our kitchen, which was nice, and possibly a little bit alcoholic. I was going to need that if I was going to deal with this in a sensible way…
Oh… my… God! Holy mother of… fuck!
I was expecting to be blown away by Olivia in her bikini, but not as much as I was. The red of her bikini shone brightly against her pale skin; now she had let her messy hair down and it looked tousled and sexy as hell. Her skin already had a sun-kissed look about it which made me gulp down the thick ball of emotion that lodged itself in my throat. She looked like a wet dream. She made my cock twitch a little bit; it was hard to keep my hands to myself. All I wanted to do was grab her, to hold her, to kiss her, to thrust inside of her…
“Hey, Dad!” And there she was: the reason I needed to behave myself. This wasn’t a sex vacation. I had to push any sexy thoughts out of my brain and focus on letting Justine have fun. “Let’s go to the beach.” She grabbed my hand and pulled me towards the door. “I want to go and play in the waves.”
I glanced back and gave Olivia a pleading look. She probably didn’t know what I meant by it, but I was trying to communicate that I wanted her in my bed tonight. There was no way I could watch her parading around in that sexy number and not have control of her body later. It would be impossible. I already felt itchy for her; I wanted to wrap my fingers around her hips and have her.
I’m in big trouble, I told myself. It felt like I was continually repeating the same warning to myself over and over again, but I had to. I couldn’t stop myself from diving into the trouble head first. Don’t do anything stupid.
But was it stupid? Or was it something that we needed? I guessed that was what I needed to figure out.