Page 11 of So in Love
“Took you long enough,” she said.
“And here I thought I was maybe rushing.”He stepped to the tub and flicked a glance toward her towel near the edge.“Did you leave the lights off on purpose?”
“Seemed the appropriate thing to do.”
“For privacy or to set a mood?It’s an important distinction, I think.”
“You make a good point.I did it for privacy, actually.”Her response was a jab of disappointment.“Anyway, I thought our ‘mood’ was rather set.”There was just enough light from the house for him to see the artful arch of her brow.
He dropped his towel and stepped into the hot tub, welcoming the steam and almost too hot water enveloping his body.As he sat across from her, she allowed her gaze to rove over him.
“Damn, you’re ripped,” she said with a touch of reverence that banished any residual chill from the January night air.
He inhaled deeply, welcoming the humidity into his lungs.“I started lifting weights here, actually, when I was ten.That’s what happens when you have three older brothers—you have to be sure you can defend yourself.I liked it, so my parents bought me my own weights, and it’s just part of my daily regimen.”
“I like to kickbox.”
“That sounds pretty badass.So together we could pretty much take on anything.”
She looked out toward the sprawling backyard and the forested area beyond.“What, like Sasquatch?”
He chuckled.“Maybe.Probably only deer out there, though.Maybe a stray bobcat or coyote pack.”
“Is that all?Well, I’d rather not have to kickbox a passel of wild animals if that’s okay.”
“I think we’re safe.Worst thing I’ve ever seen here is a skunk.”He’d been a kid, maybe eight years old.“It doused Cam and Hayden, while Luke and I laughed at them.”
She laughed as she stretched her arms out and skimmed her palms over the water.Jamie tried to make out her breasts beneath the water, but it was too dark.
“We left our beers inside,” Jamie said.“How are we supposed to finish the game?”
“And we’re already naked, so we can’t just do the stripping part.”She sighed.“I guess we have to call a draw.”
“Bummer.Things were getting interesting.”
She continued dragging her hands over the water.“Hmm.Truth or dare?”
Oh, helikedher.He had the sense she was the sort of woman who took what she wanted and didn’t play games.“Truth.”
“When’s the last time you had sex?”
His cock, already on its way to full arousal, went rock hard.“October.I think.”He mentally counted.“Yes, October.Your turn—truth or dare?”
She didn’t immediately answer and when she finally did, it surprised him.“Dare.”
He’d planned to ask her the same question she’d asked him, and wondered if she knew it and had chosen dare to avoid it.“I have to think about this for a second,” he said.His cock was trying very hard to rule his brain and very much wanted her to show him her breasts and maybe tug on her nipples while doing so or really go for broke and dare her to kiss him.
Ultimately he was able to rein in his libido and start with something a little tamer.Hopefully they’d work up to the other tantalizing things.“Show me what you sound like when you have an orgasm.”
Surprise flashed in her eyes.“I thought for sure you’d ask for a kiss.”
“I considered it.And I still might.”
“To clarify, you just want me to make the sounds, not actually have an orgasm?”
Oh hell.Was she asking what he thought she was asking?The idea of her masturbating across the hot tub was enough to make him stroke his hand along the length of his cock.But just once.He was far too close to the point of no return.Who was he kidding?He was getting off tonight, one way or another.
He put his arms up along the edge of the tub, both because the heat was getting to him and he didn’t trust himself not to grip his erection and show her whathesounded like.
