"That was the best steak I've had," Mia said as Fred kept the breakfast table to his side of the bed.

"I'll deliver your compliments to the chef."

"Why, thank you. But Renee knows how much I love her cooking." Mia took her last sip of wine from the flute before Fred took it from her and placed both his and hers to the side.

"Come here," Fred said as he wrapped his hands around her and pulled her into him.

They slid lower into the bed and leaned back against the mountain of pillows and cushions.

"Hmm." Mia sighed.

"You ok?"

"I'm more than ok," Mia said sliding one hand through his hard abs, she couldn't help feeling, and to his side, and then she held on tight. She looked away from the gentle waves and at him. "This is perfect."

Fred looked down at her and smiled.

"Thank you."

"Thank you," Fred said before leaning down and kissing her a slow tender kiss that made her sigh into him.

He pulled back just an inch and looked at her. Mia opened her eyes slowly to find him watching her that way he did that sent electric signals to every part of her brain, made her go all tingly on the inside and her heart melt into a bloody puddle in her chest.

Mia's cheeks burned as she looked away from him.

Fred smirked.
"What was that?"

"When you look at me like that I can't think."

Fred smiled and pulled her even closer if it was even possible.
"I love you."

Mia sighed.
"I love you."

The first sound that reached him was the waves and the birds flying through as he slowly slipped back to the land of the living. Conscious of everything around him especially the woman in his arms, Fred opened his eyes and met the blue skies, he looked ahead, past the redness of the beach sand and the blueness of the water and at the horizon of the Icelandic sea. He pushed up against his arm and turned his focus on the woman in his arms. Fred reached out and traced his forefinger along the side of her face, his thumb joining his as his forefinger hooked beneath her chin. His thumb sliding across her soft lips and back making her brows furrow as she stirred.

Mia stretched out in his arms like a kitten making him smile. She sniffled as she settled back in his arms and then a smile formed on her lips as she slowly opened her eyes. Her eyes met his making her smile widen.

"Good morning." She said as she rubbed her eyes.

"Good morning sweetheart." He said placing a kiss on her forehead.

Mia sat up and looked ahead.
"This is the second-best view I've ever woken up to."

Fred frowned as he sat all the way up, next to her.
"What's the first?"

Mia turned to smile at him.
"You of course." She hooked her plan beneath his chin, her thumb on one side of his jaw, and her other fingers on the other side. She leaned in and placed a kiss, smack, on his lips. "I need coffee."

Fred smiled.
"Let's head back in."

Mia nodded as Fred got out of the bed and helped her up. He picked her sandal and they walked back to their quarters, hand in hand. Fred couldn't take his eyes off of her especially in that barely-there dress. It reminded him of the Mia he had first met, the wild one.

Ma caught him staring and smiled.
"You like the dress uhn?"

Fred smiled and looked ahead of them as he slid the glass door to the quarters open and let her go ahead of him.
"I love the dress." He said and slid the glass door shut. "But you aren't wearing it anywhere that it isn't just me."

Mia bit her lip from smiling as they resumed their walk past the living room and towards the stairs.
"Selfish aren't you."

"When it comes to you? Completely."

Mia walked up to her side of the stairs before him and Fred swallowed at being put in the position where he had to watch her hips swing in that short dress as she climbed the stairs. Mia stopped with one leg on the next stairs and turned to look at Fred when she didn't feel him close to her anymore. She saw him standing at the bottom stairs, his gaze on her legs moving up and pausing on her rear, making her smile, before his gaze snapped up to hers.

"Don't." His voice was raspy.

"I didn't do anything." She said before turning back with a wicked smile as she moved up the rest of the stairs with an intentional sway in her hips and at a much slower pace that was torture for Fred.

Mia reached the top of the stairs and finally turned to look at him.
"Now I did something."

Fred's chest rose and fell as he looked at her, barefoot, at the top of the stairs. He took the stairs two at a time at a speed that made Mia's heart pound in her chest. He was standing on a stair lower to hers before she could think and then she heard a sound of something being dropped, her sandal, but she couldn't remove her gaze from his dark ones.

At this position, they were almost of the same height, Fred an inch taller. Their chest rising and falling in obvious hunger. Mia sucked in a breath when she felt his hand behind one of her naked legs, sliding up. She grabbed his shoulders seeking for balance, their gaze never wavering once. His other hand hooked behind her other leg as the first settled on her ass. Fred pulled her up against him, making her instinctively wrap her legs around him, his other hand joined his first and settled on her ass. He took the final stair up and backed her against the wall on the left. With the wall and her hand on his shoulders supporting her up, Fred let go of her ass and placed it on either side of her head making him lean in and her grip on his shoulder tighten.

Fred slowly leaned all the way in, making Mia's breath catch in her chest and her eyes flutter. His lips skimmed past her jaw and settled on her neck making her eyes shut and her head tilt giving him more access. He placed a few kisses on different spots and then sunk his teeth into her skin and slowly grazed her skin deeply as he bit, making her shudder.

"Freddy."