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“I’ll grab it.”
I sank low into the water. “You’ll see.”
“I’ll cover my eyes and then go outside.”
“Okay,” I said quietly. “Thank you.”
Levi crossed the room, grabbed the paperback, and walked it over to me. I dried one of my hands and reached for it, checking once again to be sure he was truly covering his eyes.
And he was, so much so that he completely missed my hand. His other one reached down to grab it, right when I reached up, but as the book was safe from the water, I realized his eyes were open and he stared right at me.
Naked me.
His breath stuttered and I was pretty sure mine did the same.
Heat spread throughout my body, the kind that had nothing to do with the bath. His eyes didn’t leave any part of me and I wasn’t sure if I wanted him to look away or gaze at me forever.
But I had to diffuse the silence somehow or I would explode.
“Should I take your silence as an insult, or are you in awe?”
Levi’s throat worked and I realized I’d never seen him like this. “A-awe. Definitely awe.”
Shit.He was supposed to go along with the joke. “I ... You know, you were gonna have to see some of this anyway.”
“I’m not sure if I’m seeingenough.”
His voice was rough and I realized what he was propositioning. He wantedmore.
And judging by the way my body reacted, I did too.
My heart thudded. I wassoclose to saying yes, but my last shred of sense told me that this was a terrible idea, one that would get me hurt in the end.
“I shouldn’t.” My voice was as thin as paper. “It would make things complicated.”
Levi’s lips pursed, but he took one step back. Then another.
And then he was outside.
“Fuck,” I said the second I was alone. My skin still tingled with the memory of a touch I’d turned down, and while I knew it wasright, I wasn’t sure if it was what Iwanted.
My eyes slipped closed. It was way too easy to imagine what could have happened.
He would have pulled me out of this bath and put me on the bed, his hands attached to the swell of my breasts. His mouth could have been anywhere, but I would have wanted it on mine, making that kiss on my back porch real all over again.
My hand slipped down my body before I could stop it.
Back in my fantasy, it was his hand caressing my wet flesh. He was the one circling my clit, expertly leading me to an orgasm. When I’d had one, two, three, or however many I wanted, he pulled out his cock and pressed it gently into me, making room for himself.
I let out a gasp as my hands did their best to replay what was going on behind my eyelids.
It was wrong to fantasize about this when I’d just turned him down, but I had to get my shit together. I was stuck with Levi for the next few days, and if I didn’t want to lose my last shred of sanity and jump him the second we were alone again, I needed to work out this tension.
And what he didn’t know wouldn’t hurt him.
Back in my own little world, he was fucking me with powerful thrusts. The whole bed moved with us, and all I could feel was the way his cock brushed against my sensitive G-spot.
I sank lower in the water, body going lax as my pleasure grew.