CHAPTER 21
Zander
“Well, Mrs. Michaels what do you think?” Zander carried Ember through the threshold of their honeymoon suite and sat her down.
“I think it’s fantastic!” Ember cried out running through the hallways of the fancy cottage he’d rented for their stay in Hawaii for their honeymoon.
The Canyons Cottages were a group of large upper scale cottages that one could rent for five grand a night. They resided just a five-minute bike ride from the beach and about ten minutes to the shopping district of Honolulu.
Ember ran up to Zander, grabbed him, and kissed him hard on the mouth. “This is going to be a blast! This place even has its own sauna.”
“We have a sauna at the mansion,” Zander reminded her.
“Yeah, but this is a vacation sauna; its way cooler.”
Zander laughed as he started to carry their luggage into the master bedroom up the long flight of stairs. He could have paid the driver from the airport to do it, but he decided that once inside the cottage he did not really want anyone else there but he and his wife. He could foresee getting naked and wild almost immediately.
But then again as excited as Ember was to go and do as much as possible in Hawaii he was not sure that any freaky sex action would really happen until they retired to bed for the night.
Zander checked his watch; it was only nine in the morning. The jet lag was already setting in and he was feeling like taking an afternoon nap. With all of the mad stuff that they’d been doing to get ready for the wedding the past couple of months it was a wonder either of them were standing. Of course, Ember was running on pure adrenaline it seemed; she was born to put weddings together. In fact, he had even suggested that she get involved in the wedding planning business and she had taken to the idea. That woman could make a strong go of it, he knew. In fact, she could really do anything that she set her mind to.
And now she had the freedom to do it since she’d quit her job.
“So, what do you want to do first?” Ember asked him as she did her little dancing excited bouncing thing.
The beach was perfect. It was the middle of January and they were walking on the beach. Ember could not believe it. It was frigid cold in New York right now and here they were in a modern day paradise having the time of their lives. Of course, she was not sure how much of the shopping that Zander was enjoying. He mostly wanted to spend all day in bed or at the golf course. When the guy vacationed he really went into a reverse mode where he did not want to do much of anything.
She was the opposite. Ember had never really had the chance to vacation or see much of the world in her life and now that she was able to do so she was going to make the most of it. It did feel weird to be using Zander’s money, but then again, they were married now so it was technically their money together. He still earned it, but she was working on some things to do for herself. It was probably never going to be anything near the kind of success that he enjoyed but as long as she kept herself busy with something then she was happy.
“Wow, look at that sunset,” Ember remarked. “It’s breathtaking.”
The sunsets here were spectacular. Somehow, they were just much different than back home, but she was not sure why. She was not sure how the skies in one place were that different than the skies in another. She was definitely going to look that up someday.
Mrs. Zander Michaels. She would never get tired of saying that. The wedding had been beautiful with about two hundred people. She had invited every single person she’d ever met it seemed and so had he. He knew way more people than she did and she found herself getting tired of meeting strangers by the end of the day. But the wedding was perfect; everything had gone off without a hitch.
And now here they were having the time of their lives in Hawaii. It was perfect here. She wondered what Zander would think of moving to Hawaii? Was it possible for him to do what he did only from there? He could move offices, couldn’t he?
She would never ask because she knew how much he enjoyed New York. There was just something about that town that really spoke to him. It was the place for a man like him to thrive and she was determined to never get in the way of any of that.
“I haven’t been able to stop looking at you,” Zander said. “You are breathtaking.”
He leaned over and kissed her sweetly on the lips.
“Oh, you are such a charmer. That was possibly the cheesiest thing you’ve ever said to me,” Ember joked.
“I know. But you love it anyway because you know I mean it,” Zander said.
Ember stopped and thought for a second. “Yeah, that is true. Now it’s endearing and adorable, not cheesy.”
“Right, that is exactly how that works.”
Zander put his arm around her hips as they continued to walk heading back towards the cottage. His hand slipped down to her ass and he gave it a little squeeze.
“Hey, we are in public here,” she said. “You have to learn to behave.”
“When I’m with you that is impossible,” he said.
“Right back at ya,” Ember replied.