When out of nowhere she heard a familiar voice, "That could be, Alannah, because you are on a Luxury Liner in the middle of the ocean bound for America. And here in the middle of nowhere, you are trapped." Startling her back to reality, she looked around for the voice. Just how much of her babbling did this man hear? Why was Nicolò following me?
"Nicolò is that you?" she said turning around to face the voice, forgetting that she had yet to fully closed her cape, which still left her exposed from the waist down. Through the darkness the man stepped forward and when she saw that it was indeed Nicolò, he was wearing only his white pants. At the sight of this her heartbeat quickened as did her breath. She hadn't seen him like that since .. closing her eyse she remembered the last day they were together. They were laying on the shore, he had taken off his shirt because it had gotten wet, and he said it would dry faster that way. She took a deep breath and sighed. "Nicolò? How much of that did you hear?"
"Enough," he said looking down at the lower half of her naked body and smiling, causing Alannah to blush and reach over to close her cape. He stepped closer to her, drawing her into his arms. "Your secret is safe with me." he said, leaning down to whisper in her ear. He was trying very hard to control the emotions that he was feeling at that moment, being close to her once again. Seeing her exposed in the moonlight, just made him want her even more. Alannah placed a hand on his tight chest, her partial naked body nicely fit next to his. "You have no idea what you are doing to me right now, mi amore"
She smiled with her hand still resting on his chest, "Oh, I think I do, because just being this close to you makes me melt."
"Alannah I'm sorry I can't" he said as he pulled away from her as he turned to walk awy he said, "one more thing Alannah, while we are here on the ship. You can't refer to me as Nicolò, you need to remember to call me Mr. Giovanni. No one knows where I came from. I have been working on passenger ships for the last five years hoping that I would find you. Now here we are, instead of working side by side as we were on the other vessel we are passenger and crew, First Class crew at that. Alannah I would love nothing more than to pick you up and take you to your room and show you how much I love you, but I can not. OH - I have missed you Alannah, but I can't do this to you."" He turned to kiss her forehead, embrasing her once more before he walked away. His memory of that night would always be how her body looked reflecting in the moonlight, barely covered in that opera cape. He wanted her badly that night, but he respected her too much to take advantage of her. As she watched him walk away she felt something prick her foot, she reached down to find it, but nothing was there, her legs felt like putty, as she found her way back to her suite. With a tear in her eye and a smile on her face she opened the glass door to her suite and walked in, little did she know that she was being watched.