Total pages in book: 25
Estimated words: 22898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 22898 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 114(@200wpm)___ 92(@250wpm)___ 76(@300wpm)
I promised not to look, but I’m having a hard time tearing my eyes away. She doesn’t ask me to, though, her eyes locked right back on mine, daring me to watch her.
She unhooks her bra, and lets it fall to the side, her cheeks turning a pretty shade of red I’m getting real used to. She lets me get a full view of her naked tits, and goddamn, nothing about the bra lied about what was underneath. The panties follow, and she timidly does cover that part of herself up with her hands.
With how everything is going though, I’m guessing that timidness won’t last for much longer.
She climbs into the tub, with a little helping hand from myself. She sits down somewhat far from me, the water covering her up to her neck. That nervousness she had which seemed to be receeding jumps right back up now – I can see it in her eyes and all I want to do is put her at ease.
“Gonna be honest with you, Merit,” I say, reclining in the tub. “You’re fucking gorgeous. The hottest woman I’ve ever laid eyes on. That I found someone like you squatting in my family’s hunting cabin is something amazing. I want to kiss you again, and this time I don’t want to let go. I want to do more than kiss you, even, if you get where I’m going with this.”
“I’m not that naive,” she replies, her voice soft.
“Above all that, I don’t want to scare you. You’ve had a lot of shit to scare you already and I don’t want to add to that.”
“Nothing about you scares me, Mac. Quite the opposite.”
“Then why are you sitting so far away?”
“Twenty-something years of conditioning is all. But I’m a grown woman. I’m a free woman. I can do what I want. And I want to make choices now that I’ve wanted to make for a long time. And more importantly, I want to make choices that involve you, Mac. I’m a grown-ass woman, and I know what I want.”
“You don’t know how sexy it is to hear you say that, Merit.”
She nibbles her lips and then shakes her head. “I want you to be my first, Mac.”
I laugh. “Girl, with how you’re making me feel about you right now? I want to be your first, last and only.”
6
MERIT
Naked in a hot tub with Mac really wasn’t where I expected this all to go.
But I can’t say I’m complaining either.
The way he looks at me makes me feel wanted in a way I’ve never felt before. Despite his rough and muscled exterior, there’s a definite softness to him that’s calling to me. He’s just a big teddy bear who wants to hold me and care for me.
I shift toward him, inching across the hot tub's bench and toward his arms. His eyes light up and he quickly throws a hand over my shoulder. I can’t help but meet him eye to eye, and see the passion he has for me. Our lips meet again, and this time it’s a mutual movement… and it becomes so much more from there. A simple peck turns into a more open-mouthed affair, our tongues meeting and pressing against one another.
His hand runs across my hair and through the strands, his gentle yet caring touch filling me with so much anticipation of what’s to come. This type of affection that I’ve been denied all these years is what I yearn for even more than the sexual stuff – a man showing that he truly cares about me, that he’ll hold me and protect me from all of the cruelties of the world. It’s something that Mac has made me feel since the moment I met him.
Mac’s curious touch keeps going down my body, into the water. The intense warmth of the hot tub is so damn nice, and beneath the simmering water, his touch makes everything prickle up inside of me in just the right way. His hand caresses all of me in a gentle embrace before he comes to my nipples and tickles their erectness. “Can’t believe how fucking gorgeous you are. I thought I’d come up to this cabin for some peace and quiet, and instead I find the most beautiful girl in the world waiting for me.”
I chuckle. “What, are you saying if you didn’t find me pretty I’d have been hauled off to jail for trespassing by now?”
“Oh, no. We wouldn’t be naked in a hot tub together, but I wouldn’t turn away anyone who’s down on their luck enough to be squatting in a house in the middle of nowhere. That’s not how you treat a fellow human being.”
“But because you find me pretty… what are you going to do to me?” I ask, my breath catching in my throat.