I'm at work in my office when the man in my life pops his head around the corner. "Are you free for lunch?"
Half asleep from working my ass off these past couple of months I jump in surprise at his voice then smile at him, "I'm always free for you," which he knows is a lie because I've been skipping or working through most of my lunches for weeks.
After shutting everything down and locking the door to my office he leads me out to his car and heads out of the city. With the heat on inside and being a touch drowsy I lean my head back against the seat and close my eyes. The next time I open them I stare out the window to see we're in the middle of nowhere and that the sun was now hidden behind heavy clouds. I take a look at the clock on the dash and gasp seeing how late it is, trying to stay calm I ask, "Ah honey would you mind telling me what the hell is going on?"
He reaches over into my lap and holds my hand in his as he drives down the road. "Don't worry love, I got permission from your boss to take you away from work early. She felt you deserved it since you put in so much time on that last project so this was her way of saying thank you."
I feel a big grin spreading across my face, "That was sneaky of both of you but I love it. So are you going to tell me where we're going?"
"I'm not telling but we will be there before dark," he says with a grin of his own.
Not caring really where we go I lean my head back and doze off once again only to be awaken by the soft touch of his fingertips against my cheek, "Wake up love," then feel his warm lips caress mine.
"Mm, I could get use to being woken up with a kiss like that." I give him a soft lingering kiss back then glance outside the windshield. "Are we there?"
"Not yet but almost, I thought we'd stretch our legs and give you a chance to wake up. So sit tight for a few seconds, I've got your heavy coat in the trunk for you and then we can go for that walk."
He gets out of the car and cold air rushes in sending a chill through me. I hear the trunk close then my door opens. "The temperature has really dropped since this morning."
"Yes it has, but I came prepared." He held my coat for me, slipping it onto my arms and over my shoulders. Then he took my hand; "Let's take this trail here it looks easy to walk."
Even though it's late in the fall season the area was beautiful. The weak sunshine broke through the heavy clouds a few times brightening the shadows exposing a squirrel who's cheeks were fully and a fluffy rabbit, that scurried across our path when he seen us.
We started seeing snow flakes about 10 minutes into the walk but he didn't seem worried. Just on this side of a curve in the trail he stopped and moved behind me. Then a black strip of cloth held by his hands was before my eyes. "Put this on for me, I have a surprise waiting for you."
My heart began to pound as darkness covered my eyes and he tightened the cloth at the back of my head. "Okay love, I'll lead you from here," he said as he placed his hand at my elbow and began to walk once again.
As he led me down the trail I could tell that the flakes had picked up in size and weight by the way they felt landing on my hair and cheeks. "Just a few more steps and then we can stop."
I had no clue as to what awaited me. I'm still in shock from him going to such trouble to get me away from work. He finally stopped me, whispering in my ear, "On the count of three." I felt my heart racing and my breathing quicken, "One... two... and three."
The sudden brightness blinded me momentarily but once my vision cleared my mouth fell wide open. Before me was the most picture perfect scene that made me wish I had the ability to paint.
Through the curtain of white snowflakes stood a small wood cabin that looked to be only one room, two at the most, with smoke rolling out of the chimney. "W...what is this?"
He stepped in front of me blocking my view, "It's my friend's cabin and he let me have it for the whole weekend just for us. Do you like it? Is it okay? If not we can go..."
I quickly shut him up by pulling him to me and giving him the deepest kiss I could, both of us moaned when his arms wrapped around me tight and our bodies came together.
"Perfect," I said against his mouth then dipped my tongue back inside for another taste. "I love it." I said between each kiss that I placed along his jaw, nuzzling against his neck I asked, "What made you do this?"