could be better than this bath!”
“No because there will be someone applying the therapy! You can try out the yoga room when I have gone home!! I want to drink in every second of our time together here...I feel as if I am in paradise!!”
“Hmm me too let’s get out of the water now though and explore our suite and discover other possibilities for the rest of the afternoon...so far I can write about the surreal experience of having a bath in the Maharani’s suite! Did you know that the marble is from Italy?”
“Ah no I didn’t but you see Italy follows us to all corners of the earth. Emma...we must talk about Italy ...”
“Not now Carlo, not now let’s not spoil this magic today....these candles, the rose petals, making love whilst floating amongst the rose petals... hmm let me savour it all for now. I want to live for the moment and not think about tomorrow...I want to feel with all my senses...”
Carlo reluctantly agreed, he could not risk another two months without her. If it was the last thing he did he would marry her and show her in a million ways how to love and how love conquer all ...even hostile parents and and a psychopathic ex girlfriend. Just the thought of Antonella made him shiver; she would not manage to ruin his life again. Emma was going to be his and he would one day hold in his arms a little miniature version of her...his face softened just thinking of a little cherub face looking up at him...yes they would one day have children and one day they would be a family.
“Carlo what are you thinking of you have this gooey look about you!!”
Carlo blushed “I was thinking of one day holding a little daughter just like you...her looking up at me with your eyes.”
“I didn’t think men got broody”
“Neither did I...but you know I love you and you know I want to marry you and you and I know you feel the same....you haven’t changed your mind have you?”
“No ...Carlo, you know I love you...I just cannot cope with your family and your ex girlfriend...Antonella. Unless something changes I cannot see us being happy together in Italy and I want to work. If I was in Italy with this present climate I would never get a job and I would shrivel up if I had to just be a housewife and a mother. If I give you a treat...I want to pay for it myself. If I take you out for a surprise meal or a romantic holiday or a special meal at home...I don’t want it to come from your money, I want to be independent. Also heaven forbid, if anything went wrong, I could slide back into my old life again...and be independent. I would grow to hate you if you took away my independence or if I was forced to put up with your family or psychopathic Antonella forever. I didn’t feel welcome....I didn’t feel accepted...I felt like an intruder....I don’t think I want that forever.”
“When you come back from India, will you just stay with me for a few days and try and see if it is alright again? You will not see Antonella again...but you would meet my family again...would you do this for me Emma...give me a second chance...what we have together is too precious not to try and give it a go.”
Emma nodded, “I will try and if it is still impossible, we must look at living away from Italy otherwise we...”
“There will be no otherwise”
Chapter Five
The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.
Audrey Hepburn
6 weeks later...
“Ladies and Gentlemen will you please fasten your seatbelts for our decent to Heathrow Airport, the outside temperature is now two degrees Celsius...”
Georgina and Emma cringed as they fastened their safety belts, after three months in India, learning about Ayurveda and writing articles and filming for a TV documentary series about modern and ancient India the cold wet welcome was not what they wanted to hear.
“Do you think they will be waiting for us?” Georgina asked
“I don’t