บท 69: No Words

The next morning, Samantha woke up early with a sleeping Daniel next to her. For the first time in 3 months, she had the most amazing sleep. Looking at the man beside her, she wondered how she could make up for the times that she had caused him pain.

A faint snore came from beside her and she watched over his face. Daniel has such manly jaws, long perfect nose and below his soft hot lips was a very light stubble like he hadn't shaved for about a day or two. Samantha suddenly remembered last night's occurrence. And no, it wasn't about her breaking down by the shore.

She remembered how he trailed kisses below her ears and that stubble tickled her. And for whatever reason, her eyes darted a glance down south and -oh holy moly!!

Is that what they call morning glory?!

Samantha gulped a big one as her face reddened and her tummy felt funny. 'Stop staring at it! Oh My God, I can't look away! Help!'

She gathered so much power from who knows where and averted her eyes. Slowly she got out of bed and quickly changed into her running shorts and a tank top. Samantha escaped her own safe haven and decided to do a morning run.

"I gotta cleanse my dirty mind.", she breathed, 'What has gotten into me?'

She did 4 laps inside the long compound before she had cooled down. When she came back home, Daniel was already awake.

"Where were you? You weren't beside me when I woke up."

"I ran.", she said, '𝘢𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘺𝘰𝘶!', she yelled in her head.

Daniel smiled and sauntered towards her, "Good morning, hun.", he said before he kissed her forehead.

"Hey… I'm sweaty!", Samantha tried to back away but Daniel held her in place.

"I don't care.", Daniel leaned in once more, kissed her lips as he held her nape.

How could Samantha resist this man? She kissed him back in a slow sensual way before she gently pulled back to calm herself down.

"Are you hungry? Let me make you breakfast.", she walked towards the kitchen and washed her hands.

"Yeah, I could use some.", he paused, "Sorry about last night, it was an emergency."

"Oh right, your dad called, is everything okay?"

He nodded, "There was a problem, I had to do a conference call but it was already settled. I received the news just now."

"That's good. You've been here for about a week… your work..", she said with a worried look.

"I delegated, this vacation is long overdue."

Samantha started prepping the ingredients,

"This will be quick. Go wash up."

Daniel went back to her bedroom and cleaned up. When he came back to the kitchen, he had a face towel in hand.

"What are you making?", he said as he pulled her gently, "Come here for a sec."

Samantha obliged and Daniel started to wipe the sweat off her face, arms, and back.

"Eggs Benedict, is that okay?"

He kissed her nose before he let her get back to preparing food.

"Sure, that would be good! But what is that -wait, are you making your own hollandaise sauce?"

She smiled, "Yeah, I like making my food from scratch most of the time. I feel like it tastes better…"

"So talented.", he kissed her again on the lips.

'What is with this man this morning?'

Samantha laughed, "Go away… I have to keep stirring now, sit over there."

Daniel chuckled and happily sat at the breakfast bar. He watched as Samantha move about the kitchen like it was her stage. She had her hair in a ponytail exposing her nape, Daniel's gaze fixated on that spot and he was itching to walk around the counter and press his lips on it.

…And he did just that.

Startled, Samantha gasped when she felt his wet cool lips on her neck.

"I'm done, I'm done! Here, eat!", she quickly escaped from his arms and placed the plates on the bar.

Daniel was so amused, "Why so jumpy?"

"You eat first, I'll take a quick shower."

She locked herself in the room and breathed a sigh of relief. Samantha pressed her palms to her hot cheeks.

'I swear, you're doing this to me on purpose Daniel Cho. You've made me very bothered.'

She had run laps to cool herself down but it instantly vanished the moment she came back home.

After her cold shower, Samantha put on an off shoulder sundress in stripe, dried her hair and did beach waves. As soon as Daniel heard the bedroom door open, he spoke,

"This eggs benedict is delightful! I've never had one like this before, you're really good at... Wow-", he stopped midway when he saw her.

"You look very nice… are you going somewhere?"

Samantha nodded, "We are… are you done?"

He nodded while still ogling at her. She strutted towards the breakfast bar and sat beside him.

"I'm starving."

Daniel caught a whiff of the familiar peachy scent that he missed.

"Eat. Where are we going?"

"I'll take you out on a date.", she turned to him and smiled brightly.

…

Daniel buttoned up his casual shirt, leaving the top button undone; the light color complemented Samantha's outfit. The doorbell rang, he grabbed his phone and wallet on the way and opened the door.

"Hi. You have a motorcycle.", Samantha said to Daniel but her eyes were fixed on the bike.

He chuckled, "Yeah, that's also Lucas'. Do you wanna ride in it?"

"You know how to ride?", Samantha turned to him and he nodded.

She bit her lip. "Yeah… but maybe not today. Are you ready?"

"Mhmm, let's go?"

Daniel walked towards Lucas' Bugatti Veyron and before Samantha got inside she realized something, "Wait… I recognize this car.", it was black with blue accent.

He smiled as he opened the passenger's seat for Samantha to get in. When he got inside the car, she looked at him and stared. "I raced against this car."

"You did. It was one of Lucas' men.", he grinned.

"AW!"

Samantha playfully slapped his upper arm. "Seriously, you two!"

Daniel chuckled as he drove the car away from the villa, he grabbed the hand that just hit him and kissed its knuckles. Samantha couldn't help but snicker.

The couple spent the whole day driving around and going to places where Samantha had visited when she arrived months ago. She told him stories about those times as they walked along the pavement in the city. Daniel listened to all her tales and shared some about his experiences similar to hers. They stopped by a dessert shop located by the bay and they walked hand in hand as they ate their ice cream.

"How is it?", Samantha asked.

"It's weird but pretty good, kinda spicy.", Daniel tried a cone of ginger ice cream.

"Yeah, I'm not a fan."

Daniel glanced at the Butter Pecan ice cream in her hand and without hesitating, he leaned in and bit a huge chunk.

Samantha's eyes widened, "Ha! You did not just do that!"

He laughed before he jogged away and Samantha chased after him, "You thief! Come back here!"

As soon as they reached the end of the bay, the rain suddenly poured.

"Oh shoot it's raining! Ah! my ice cream!", Samantha gasped when the dessert fell from her hand.

Daniel discarded his cone and grabbed Samantha's hand, "Come on."

They ran back to the parking lot which was quite a distance from where they were and arrived soaked. Daniel and Samantha quickly got inside.

"It seems like this is gonna be a downpour.", she said as she looked out the window.

Daniel turned on the car heater, took a handkerchief from his pocket and wiped the water from Samantha as much as he could. "We have to go home."

When they arrived back at Daniel's villa, he pulled her inside the house, "I'll get you a towel.", he said before he turned around.

He had just taken a few steps forward when he suddenly felt Samantha hugging him from behind. He froze before he lowered his head and saw Samantha's hand tightly clasped around his torso.

"Happy birthday.", she spoke.

His heart thumped, "You-"

"I haven't thanked you yet…The Crown Hotel, you saved me that night on my birthday."

Daniel kindly unclasped her hands and he turned around to face her. With a gentle expression, he probed, "You knew… since when?"

"The day my brother got into an accident, I went to your company… I went to see you as soon as I found out…"

Daniel was silent, he didn't know what to say so he just looked into her eyes.

"You've done a lot for me back then and until now. There are no words to express my feelings. So, I'll just say... Thank you, Daniel... And happy birthday.", she smiled tenderly.

Looking at the beautiful woman who's staring back at him, his heart raced. He clenched his teeth before he pulled her close and kissed her mouth ever so gently.

Samantha placed her hands on his firm chest and savored the taste of his lips. She slightly opened her mouth to welcome Daniel's tongue, eager to duel with hers.

He placed a hand on the small of her back, the other at her nape and she clung onto him pressing herself to his body. Their kiss was sweet and deep, full of longing and unspoken love to each other.

Daniel lifted Samantha up and instinctively, she wrapped her legs around his waist. Without breaking their kiss, he carried her towards the bedroom.