I wake up to see my wife staring at my shirtless body from above.
"Like what you see, bellissima?" I ask knowing fully well she was totally checking me out.
"No. I'm just.. processing" she explains and I know that's a lie but I let her get away with it.
"Good morning wife" I say standing up and planting a kiss on her cheek.
"Good morning guy I'm unfortunately betrothed to" she replies.
"Let's get ready to leave. Wanna shower first or shower with me?" I ask her knowing the second option might never be happening.
No harm in trying.
She doesn't even bother answering as she steps into my bathroom door slaps the door and locks it from the inside.
Fiesty
Once we're all ready, we greet my family goodbye and we head to her family house.
We couldn't stay for long cause we were already running late for our trip so she quickly says goodbye to them and they promise to all keep in contact with each other.
Our chauffeur drops us off at the airport, we check-in, board and head to Paris for our honeymoon.
I really hope she enjoys Paris and we get a little honey while here.
Cheesy
••
We just landed and she's sleeping.
She looks so beautiful asleep and I feel bad having to wake her up.
"Baby, wake up" I say tapping her thighs softly.
No answer
"Novalie" I call shaking her a bit.
No answer
I do what comes to my head without thinking.
I lean down and place a kiss on her lips and instantly her eyes shoot open and the next thing I feel is her hand placing a hard slap on my face.
"Ouchh!" I say rubbing my face.
"Don't kiss me! Atleast not without my consent" She hisses at me
"I knew that would wake you up and it did" I say with a stupid smile on my face and she hits my chest.
"Let's go"
I had planned the trip since the beginning, I knew Novalie will be tired so today we were going to sleep in and after that, for the remaining five days before we leave, I have a whole list of options for her to choose from.
Our driver waits for us outside and we get in. He takes us to our hotel.
"So what now?" my wife asks me.
"We rest Mrs Milano. Anything you'll rather do?"
"No I want to rest but can we go see the Eiffel tower this night?" she asks with puppy eyes.
"Ofcourse, anything you want" I tell her and that seems to make her smile.
We use our key card to open the door to our hotel suite and at first glance, the interior is beautiful and I see Novalie let out a 'wow' in amazement.
We look around at the place my right hand man booked for me. He doesn't usually handle such trivial jobs but he's like my assistant so I made him.
On entering the room, you see two openings at the right. On the first opening, you are greeted with a grand bathroom with two sinks, a tub and a shower and back out of the room, when you move further you see the sleeping area. It consists of a dresser, a coffee table, a large TV placed on the wall and a small couch right infront of the queen sized bed. All these, are beside a large glass floor to ceiling sliding door which leads to the balcony. The balcony features a large hot tub, two lounge chairs for sunbathing and a set of couches.
"This is so pretty right" I ask Novalie already telling she loves it from her face.
"Yes it is. But there might be a problem" she asks and I lift my eyebrow.
"What's that?"
"There's only one bed" she informs and I realize, oh no. I bring out my phone ready to call my right hand man to ask why there is only one fucking bed.
On the second ring he picks and I ask the question at hand.
"Oh boss I thought you'd want it like that. Most couples usually sleep together during their honeymoon, doing a lot of the dirty" he says the last part like I was playing.
I put the phone on speaker and drop it as I start to unbutton my shirt.
"I'm not joking" I say to him as I hear the clicking of a keyboard.
"Boss, I really don't know what to do. They aren't any available suites with two beds in the city. What do you say about going to another city or another pretty country in Europe?"
"Nooo" I hear Novalie say as she goes into the bathroom carrying something after scrambling through her bags.
"It's no problem if we move locations and change plans, Bambi" I say softly to her.
"No it's fine. I'll go suntan right now and maybe sleep while doing that and you can take the bed. This night we'll sort the arrangement okay" She says trying to find a solution to the problem.
"well the couch in here is too small so I could even sleep on one of the couches out there" I say reasoning.
"We don't have to think about that now, let's Just get some sleep" she says coming out of the bathroom she's been in, changing out of her clothes and into cute green bikini.
Woah she looks so sexy.
Nope we're not thinking of her like that.
Then why are you currently eye-fucking her.
Shhh.
"See you later" she says walking out of the room.
"Can I come join you?" I yell back at her suddenly interested in suntanning.
"Nope!" she says back and I groan.
••
Novalie taps me awake and I see she's already ready to leave.
"Why didn't you wake me before you showered?" I ask.
"Another problem" she says pointing at the window with transparent glass that shows us the inside of the bathroom from the room and vice versa.
"I don't trust you not to sneak peaks" she says.
"I wouldn't if you don't want me to. I promise to close my eyes whenever you're there if that gives you peace" I reassure her as I scramble through my luggage to chose an outfit.
Before I step into the bathroom, I say to her with a smile, "You can totally watch if you want to" and she whispers a "no thankyou" as she goes to seat on the chairs outside.
••
We just arrived at the Eiffel tower and got tickets.
It was night hence, the tower was beautifully lit with gold.
We chose to climb the stairs to the first floor rather than the elevator and the unique ambiance that gives while the structure is lit is to die for.
On the first floor we enjoy the view looking down before taking the elevator to the second floor. There, we get seated for a gourmet dinner and champagne. We order and eat as we're served.
"I guess marrying you wasn't so bad" Novalie says and I smile, happy she doesn't believe it as the worse thing that ever happened to her.
Once we finish our food, we take the glass elevator to the towers summit/top floor. We spend an hour and half there looking at Gustave Eiffel's office and admiring the wax statues of Eiffel and his daughter, Claire welcoming Thomas Edison.
We learnt that, the Eiffel Tower was built from 1887 to 1889 by French engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company specialized in building metal frameworks and structures. Gustave Eiffel Personally Funded Most of the Tower. It would cost about 30 million euros if the Eiffel Tower were to be built today. When the Tower was built, the government offered to fund a mere 18% of it, leaving Eiffel to personally raise the rest of the money.
After we visited the summit, we went back to the first floor and looked down at the view.
I wrapped my arms around Novalie's waist pulling her closer and she rested her head on my shoulder. We stayed there without speaking and just enjoying the view around us.
Novalie looked at me and at that moment I felt like kissing her and making it known to everyone around that she was mine alone if they didn't know. But I couldn't. Unless she wants to.
So I looked away, already content witnessing this with her.
"You can do it" I heard her whisper.
"Huh" I ask confused.
"You can kiss me if you want" she says simply.
"But you don't want t-" before I could finish, she wrapped her arms around my neck and landed a soft kiss on my lips before pulling away.
"Let's go home and get some sleep" she said after like nothing just happened and I smile.
"My wife's getting used to kissing me huh?" I tease her.
"Shutup or I'll never do that again"
"My mouth is shut" I smile at her.
We head back to the hotel and I take off my shirt and change to sweats without a shirt again. I start to situate myself on the chair and try to look for a comfortable position when I hear her speak.
"You can come join me up here and we can put pillows in-between and keep to our sides" she reasons and I don't object to sleeping comfortably cause that couch would've been way too small.
•••
I wake up to Novalie in my arms and the pillows discarded on the ground. I certainly wasn't the one who did so.
I feel her shift in the bed and turn to face me noticing our position.
"Let's just pretend that never happened as I go shower. You can continue to sleep or do whatever, just don't peek or I'll pluck out your eyes from it's sockets". She says that with a smile like she hadn't just threatened me.
Today, we'll be going to Louvre Museum and then on a gourmet dinner cruise on the Siene river.
We have a lot of places to go and I think we'll be pack to the brim and if so, atleast we'll be packed together.
We will be visiting the Arc de Triomphe, the Luxembourg garden, the Sainte- Chapelle, Les invalides, Palais Garnier and on the last full day we have here, we'll go on a tour to the Versailles palace.
I really hope this trip will help her get more comfortable with me.