Eminently suitable. But, she frowned, would he be content with it? Wasn’t there something women take to prevent pregnancy? She’d heard of such things… had he been expecting her to be using something like that? Some kind of poultice or concoction? She hoped not, otherwise they’d both be in for a nasty shock if it turned out she could become pregnant and he wasn’t expecting or wanting it.
She grunted with disgust and pushed the troubling thoughts out of her mind. This was just the sort of thing she had been avoiding thinking about. There was no use getting all worked up over nothing or over that which was too late to change. It was illogical.
She dunked herself again and shook the suds out of her hair with her fingers, hoping her thoughts would join them. She popped out again and stood up slowly pushing the damp, lanky strands behind her ears.
She rubbed the water from her face with her palms, blinked opened her eyes, and gasped.
“Hello little girl. Miss me?”
She usually gave him an arched look when he called her that– ‘little girl’ indeed– but she couldn’t help but grin this time. He looked so unabashedly arrogant, leaning up against the wall with his arms crossed over his massive chest, giving her that smile that said her missing him was obviously a forgone conclusion.
“When did you come in?”
“When you were soaping up.” He smirked at her surprised look.
“I didn’t hear you.”
“Not surprising, you looked deep in thought. What were you thinking about?”
She crossed her arms and blushed, shrugging.”Not much. Everything.”
“Well which is it?” He left the wall and sauntered towards her crouching at the edge of the tub across from her, not waiting for an answer. He beckoned her forward and she waded over, pausing in front of him. She wanted to reach for him, to close the distance between them and satisfy her sudden and overwhelming need to touch him, an urge she’d never quite purged… though if she admitted it, she had never really tried all that hard. She resisted this time however, not wanting to appear too eager. After all, the nymphs and their charms were by no means forgotten. They both stood there for a moment looking at one another. He was smiling down at her and she returned his smile.
He moved first and wrapped his arms around her, hauling her out of the bath and up against his chest. He lifted her off her feet easily, no feat really, considering his great strength. She squealed embarrassingly as she dripped all over him. It only made him chuckle. She was about to order him to put her down but he cut her off with a long hard kiss.
He broke the kiss just as abruptly as he started it and growled hotly in her ear while sliding one massive hand under her bottom and running the other up her back.
“I think I’ve been spoiled by you.”She wrapped her legs around his waist since he didn’t look like he was going to let her down anytime soon.
“What did I do?” she asked softly nuzzling his jaw with her mouth. His skin was salty where the tip of her tongue flicked out to taste him. He tasted of the sea. More so than usual. She had found out rather early that she quite enjoyed the taste of him. And the smell.
He rumbled with pleasure, a sexy sound that sent shivers of anticipation through her. It still surprised her how quickly he reduced her to a weak kneed state of trembling desire. She seemed especially affected right now. Perhaps she had missed him after all.
“Well I’d gotten used to having you whenever I wanted you.”
“What about your little nymphs?”He chuckled, no doubt at her sardonic tone and tightened his arms, squeezing her to him.
“Looks like you spoiled me there to… so now I’m feeling a little pent up.” He lifted her and nuzzled her neck in return with a low growl. “What do you plan on doing about it?”
She felt an incredible thrill and wrapped her arms around his neck and squeezed her body against his, grinding her hips suggestively. He wanted her, and what’s more he waited for her. She could feel her stomach flip flop disconcertingly at the thought and she couldn’t keep her voice from catching when she answered.
“Why don’t you put me down and find out.”He smirked and lowered her to her feet. She blushed and smirked back sliding her palms down his thick neck and over his broad, hard chest. She glanced up into his golden eyes and caught her breath. His flesh was cool as always, but his eyes were the fire of the sun itself, like smoldering embers flecked with shards of molten gold. His hands on her waist held her but lightly, yet she felt pinned to the spot.
His smirk faded and they stood there, for how long she couldn’t say, but the intensity of his gaze was too much to bear and she looked away with a blush, something she hadn’t found herself doing for quite some time. He caught her chin and drew her eyes back to his and smiled gently.
“What’s wrong?”
She blinked. “Nothing,” she rasped out, remembering herself suddenly and letting her hands drift lower until her fingers found and followed the edge of his wrap. She removed it deftly with now practiced fingers, and found his arousal, wrapping one hand around his thickness and dancing the finger tips of the other lightly over the already swollen head. She carefully set her eyes at his curved lips so as not to lose her nerve. Those lips parted in a low sigh as her hands moved automatically along his rigid shaft, finding the sensitive places she knew he liked best, along the underside and that spot beneath the ridge of the helm. He groaned. She smiled and her eyes traveled to the exposed points of his canines as she ran her tongue along her own teeth. She lifted her slightly parted lips to his and he met her part way opening her mouth more completely with his tongue.