Cedric on the other hand was the most supportive husband. He’d even moved back into the room opposite hers so he could help with the baby. The connecting door was never locked, and sometimes it even stayed open. Neither of them spoke of their feelings or the future. Their brief moment at the hospital was never spoken of, and Anna was honestly satisfied with it. She didn’t want anything to ruin this new found peace and understanding, and she wanted everything to stay the way it was… At least for a while longer.
They kept their hands to themselves too, but sometimes she’d look up and find him staring at her so intensely. She’d been with Cedric long enough to know what that look meant, but he never made a move.
She’d had dinner with Diana that evening and gone upstairs for a shower. Cedric had sent her a text saying that he’d be home late from work, and Ben was downstairs with Diana. Anna figured it would be a good time to relax in the tub. The doctor had told her that she had to wait about six weeks before she could go in the tub or have sex. Since there was no way she was going to be having sex, she figured the tub would be a great way to relax.
She drew a warm, soapy bath and relaxed in it, and soon her eyes were closed as she enjoyed the feeling. She’d been in the hot tub for about ten minutes when….
“What the-? Cedric, you scared the hell out of me!”
The water swirled wildly about Anna as she surged up in the hot tub-minus the jets-to turn and glare at him, at the same time dislodging his hands from where they had been cupping her breasts beneath the water.
Cedric looked down at her unrepentantly, his shirt sleeves dripping with water from being submerged in the hot tub. He had returned to the house only a few minutes ago and learnt from Diana that Anna was up in her room. Sparing only a few seconds to discard the jacket to his suit before going to her room to find her, he’d opened the connecting door and stepped inside, but when he didn’t see her there, he’d headed straight for the bathroom.
Only to find her there, looking so relaxed and breathtakingly beautiful in the hot tub. Cedric had watched her unobserved for several minutes. Anna was obviously completely relaxed as she lay back in the warm water with her eyes closed, the slight smile that curved her lips telling him that her thoughts were at least pleasant ones.
It would be too much to hope that those thoughts might be of the two of them making love, of course, but Cedric found himself unable to think of anything else but making love to Anna as she sat there looking so temptingly beautiful;
her face was glowingly lovely in the dim sunlight, that long hair loosely secured on top of her head, completely exposing the long, creamy expanse of her neck and throat. She’d clearly not bothered to get naked, and the tee shirt she wore was clinging wetly to the thrust of her breasts just beneath the water, the darker nipples clearly visible against the white material.
Cedric knew his reaction also had to do with the fact they’d not made love in three months, but he couldn’t stop himself. Didn’t even try to. So he had moved stealthily to the side of the tub before bending down behind Anna, his hands instinctively curving about the thrust of those breasts even as he bent to taste the creamy expanse of her throat with his lips. A familiarity Anna had obviously taken exception to!
“You might at least have given me some sort of warning that you were there!” Anna could feel the embarrassed color heating her cheeks even as she continued to glare up at him, aware that her breasts were totally aroused from the unexpectedness of his hands cupping them in that way.
“Coughed, you mean?” he taunted even as he began to unbutton his wet shirt.
“Something like-What are you doing?” she demanded sharply as Cedric finished unbuttoning his shirt before taking it off completely and dropping it down.
“I thought I might join you,” he told her huskily as he slipped off his shoes and socks before unfastening his trousers.
“I-but-you can’t, Cedric!” Anna shook her head frantically as he removed his trousers and stood there wearing only figure-hugging black boxers that left absolutely nothing to the imagination-as they proudly showed off the firm thrust of his arousal!
He paused with his thumbs hooked into the waistband of those boxers. “Why can’t I?”
Anna couldn’t speak. She was so shy. Even with-no, especially with-a man she knew as intimately as she knew Cedric. And who knew her just as intimately.
Anna swallowed hard. “Look, I’ll get out and-”
“If it makes you feel more comfortable, I’ll keep my boxers on,” Cedric offered as he unhooked his thumbs to look down at her mockingly.
“Keeping your boxers on isn’t going to make the slightest difference-That was not an invitation for you to remove them!”
Anna gasped as Cedric did exactly that, instantly rendering her speechless.
Oh, God… He looked so beautiful. Absolutely, completely, totally male and utterly beautiful. His face like a bronzed mask in the light, chest muscled, stomach flat, his thighs-oh, dear Lord, those thighs!-firm and muscled as they flanked his blatant arousal, his legs long and lightly dusted with dark hair. Even his feet were beautifully shaped.
“Can I get in now or do you want to look some more?”
Anna’s embarrassed gaze returned to Cedric’s mockingly handsome face. “I really wasn’t in a-position, to look before,” she came back tartly to cover that embarrassment, knowing she probably didn’t even make any sense.
“Feel free,” Cedric invited huskily, his eyes gleaming.
Anna instantly turned away from all that blatant maleness. “Don’t be ridiculous, Cedric,” she snapped dismissively, deliberately keeping her gaze averted when she felt the water move slightly as he climbed into the hot-tub with her, the long length of his thigh brushing against hers as he sat down beside her.
“It’s probably time I was getting out anyway-”
“Stay, Anna, please,” he encouraged throatily, so close now that the warmth of his breath disturbed the loose tendrils of hair beside her exposed ear, his arm curved along the top of the tub behind her. “Did you miss me today?” he asked softly.