Forty-Love in Positano by Robertson Tait

Author:Robertson Tait
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: travel romance, Italy love story, happy ever after, Second chance romantic comedy, mature romance, Amalfi Coast travelogue, luxury resort hotel, millionaire jetset lifestyle, life changing
Publisher: Robertson Tait
Published: 2017-05-17T00:00:00+00:00

Cruising the Bay

HAZEL WOKE TO THE WHISPERING sound of the sea quietly embracing the shore and church bells tolling softly somewhere in the distance. It was unmistakeably continental and so soothing. She rolled over self-indulgently in her exquisite Louis XVI bed and wondered how on earth she had stumbled into this world.

The bougainvillea on their private terrace nodded colourfully at her window, and she gazed at the antiqued woodwork framing that window with the pretty purple-red flowers bobbing in the light sea breeze.

Her appreciative glance ran around the room. The whitewashed walls made a fresh canvas for the marine blue accents in fabrics and accessories. A few cultured ornaments stood on tables and in niches like casual museum exhibits. From her art studies and gallery experience, she knew that those lamps were original Orsina Sforza; and the Syrian mother-of-pearl intarsia embellishing the headboard and furniture was exquisitely refined and absolutely beautiful.

She looked back at that inviting terrazza as she made her way to her private en suite bathroom. The generous space was utterly sumptuous with its cool expanse of Carrara marble, golden accents, and spectacular view from the shower out over the beguiling splendour of the bay.

She asked herself again, “Who is this man? And why me?”

She turned on the water to soothe her into the day with its powerfully reviving force and luxuriated in the pure, sensuous nature of her surroundings as she watched small boats going about their business of ferrying visitors, and serving the myriad needs of the hotels.

As she showered, the strains of Miles Davis’s unmistakable horn floated out of the Sonos sound system in the main living-room area of their suite, and she surmised that Jeffrey had picked something suitably cool for the occasion.

She contemplated as she dressed, for she knew that piece of music and its lyrics very well. She wondered if Jeffrey did too, or if it was merely a serendipitous random choice from the vast sound system library.

“Just human nature?” She breezed into the room, displaying her best breezing walk, and onto the terrace where a tempting breakfast had been laid out.

A vast indigo sea was before them, and the terracotta tile beneath her feet was reassuring that they were indeed very much in the south of Italy, and that the soft heat the Sicilian ceramic tiles exuded was not merely an invitation to the charming lizards but also a confirmation that fine weather was not in doubt for the day.

Hazel gazed at the enchanting view. The bay shone with that brilliant light that flickers as the sun kisses each cresting wave, only to relinquish its embrace and move on to the next.

“Ah, good morning, Hazel. Yes, I’m looking out across the morning.” Jeffrey was making sure he was not being too suggestive with his words as he studied her expression carefully. “And, I guess, to touch a stranger.”

Hazel smiled by way of inviting him to go on.

Jeffrey felt the pause and her silence leaving him his task. He watched her face as he continued, “Yes, I just love the sound of that man’s playing.

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