Page 43 of 7 Nights of Sin

Chapter 14

Kevin

My mouth dropped open when I saw her stripping down. I had fully expected her to tell me to fuck off when I suggested her getting in the hot tub. It was the scene of the crime, so to speak, after all, and I didn't think she'd want anything to do with it.

I definitely hadn't expected her to just...get naked, standing right there, and I couldn't look away.

Ever since we'd had sex, she'd been on my mind constantly. Even more so than usual. I'd woken up that next morning to find her gone and the house quiet, and it was disappointing, but not surprising.

I hadn't expected it to all fall into place on the first time we did it. That was the whole point of me having seven days, well nights really, to work on this plan. I needed the most amount of time to get through her defenses and get her to trust me and want me.

I still had jerked off to the memory of her hot and wet around my cock and the smell of her hair lingering in the pillows that morning, though, and I wasn't ashamed of it.

But memory was nothing compared to the sight in front of me.

She was just so fucking beautiful. I'd meant every word of that. Her hair fell around her shoulders, skimming over her chest a bit, drawing attention to the firm nipples and the pink flush to her skin.

In the light on the deck, she almost seemed to glow, and it was a damned good thing there weren't any neighbors around for a good mile and a half because I didn't want to share this view with anyone else.

It was all mine, and I wanted Caro to be the same, but I couldn't rush it. I had to let her decide to come to me.

I held out a hand to her, lifting an eyebrow. I could see the determination in her gaze, and I knew that if she thought too hard about what she was doing, she'd regret it immediately. I just had to keep that from happening.

"Come on," I coaxed with a grin. "You're halfway there."

She rolled her eyes, but that got her moving at least. Caro ignored the hand I was holding out, and got into the hot tub herself, slender legs stepping over the edge of it and water lapping around her ankles as she moved down the recessed stairs to find a place to sit.

She wasn't as far away from me as she could be, but she wasn't as close as I wanted her, either, but I still had an excellent view of the steamy water moving around her breasts and soaking into her hair before she grabbed it and tied it up into a knot at the top of her head.

"It's nice, isn't it?" I said, grinning and leaning back comfortably. I was nice and loose from soaking for a while already, and I glanced over at her through half-lidded eyes.

"It's...comfortable," she said, and it was like it pained her to say it.

I just laughed.

For a bit we just sat there, soaking in silence. I kept an eye on Caro, watching that flush spread from her cheeks down, watching the effort she made to relax each of her muscles, letting the tension finally bleed out of her completely.

When she leaned back all the way and let out a soft sigh, I smiled.

"You should do this more often," I murmured. "You could probably use the stress relief."

"Probably. You should do this less often. Or at least with fewer people."

"If I had you to do this with, I wouldn't need anyone else."

Her eyes snapped to me, and I could see some of that tense energy coming back to her posture. "Why do you say things like that?" she asked. "What are you hoping to gain?"

"I told you already. I want you. That's it. End of story. I say it because I mean it."

Caro narrowed her eyes, taking me in, and I let her look. For the moment, I didn't have anything to hide. I was being completely honest with her about my intentions, and it was up to her what she wanted to do with it.

Apparently what she wanted to do was slide closer in the water. "So if I said yes, you'd never have another woman in a hot tub with you again? You'd just what, drag me around to every hotel and beach house you come across?"

I shook my head. "No, I'd just get a hot tub myself and have you over to soak with me. I'd take a vow of hot tub celibacy unless you were there."

She snorted. "You make it sound so easy."

"It could be."

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