I got all my clothes off, noticed the stack of towels in the corner, and went to the steps of the large pool. I wrapped up my long hair into a bun at the top of my head, wanting to feel the warmth up to my neck where I carried most of my stress.
I quickly stepped in, the warm water rising against my skin with each step felt exquisite. Almost like the water was massaging my body inch by inch. As soon as I sank in up to my neck, I let out a sign of pure pleasure. This was an unexpected treat, and I was going to enjoy it before the long grueling trip we had ahead of us.
I swam to the far side of the pool, sitting on a ledge underneath the water facing the door, just in case. I had this room all to myself and I needed to take advantage while still being ready for anything to happen.
The warmth of the spring water soaked into my skin, permeating my muscles, putting my body into a relaxed state. I let my eyes close and rolled my neck back. A sound of content pleasure broke from my lips.
Yes, this was where I could think of the boys I couldn’t have. With my eyes closed, I envisioned Ajax and Rykon in the room, still only in their towels, but this time I followed what my body wanted me to do. I touched my way up Ajax’s grooves on his chest, carving my fingers into his skin. I licked that bead of water that dropped down Rykon’s chest as I pulled Ajax to settle in behind me.
They both touched me as well. Ajax’s possessive angry hands gripping my hips on one side and my breast on the other. Rykon lifted my face, lips crushing down onto mine like he couldn’t hold back anymore.
I was so embarrassingly immersed in my daydream that I could feel my body getting excited, buzzing with a need I keep refusing to take care of. A thought broke through my mind… maybe I should change that. I lifted my hand, trailing it down to my center.
With my eyes still closed, I could hear steps gliding their way into the bathhouse. It must be another woman at the inn. I stopped my hand’s descent and put it back to my side. I was a little ticked at their timing and intruding on what could’ve helped me let go of these desires for the rest of the journey, but oh well. I’d just need to have a firmer grip on my control once I get back up in the room.
I could hear her entering the pool and I lifted my head, lazily opened my eyes to acknowledge the woman when they submerged themselves underneath before I got to have a look at them. This put me slightly on guard as I saw a body work its way over to me, a flash of bright red hair the only thing I could catch. Red hair that looked familiar.
Once they got within a few feet of me I braced myself, ready to take them out if it was someone trying to harm me, but as soon as I clenched my fists, a familiar smiling face broke the surface and I was on edge for a whole other reason.
“My gem,” Zayden cooed, his eyes snagging at the top of my breasts as they bounced on the surface. “Were you going to pleasure yourself?” He tutted at me. “You know you don’t have to do that while I’m available to you, day or night. I’m always ready for you.”
I don’t know if it was his words or if it was because of my earlier imaginings of the two others, but I was feeling this hot, burning lust building below my stomach. Need pulsed out of my body frantically. My body has never been like this before, never overtaken me with feelings, but I had to fight it.
“You shouldn’t be here, Zayden.” My voice sounded low and weak, not really putting the commanding power I usually have in it. His smile got wider as he got closer, his naked legs brushing up against mine as I bit my lips together to prevent a lustful sound from coming out.
“Oh really? Are you going to tattle on me?”
He pressed forward, positioning his body to hover over mine as he got closer. I needed to say something, do something before he took everything a step further, something I could see he desperately wanted. The thing I had half a mind to let him take.
“Aren’t you supposed to be getting blankets and pillows?” I bark, trying to put some umph into the excuse. He lifted his head to the ceiling and laughed.
“Oh Emerald, I can charm the pants off that woman and get us all the sheets and pillows in the whole place in five minutes.” His gaze sharpened on me, darkening his face as his smile turned less playful, more sinful. “But this,” he nodded his head up and down my body, “this needs my full attention. My mistress is in need and what kind of man would I be if I didn’t satisfy all of her wishes?” His head tipped forward, so close that I could feel the kiss of his breath on my cheek as he whispered, “All of herneeds.”
My hands clenched onto the rock ledge underneath me, gripping it like it could prevent me from doing what my body craved, but I could feel my resolve slipping through my fingers like grains of sand. Disappearing even if I was desperately trying to keep it.
Strands of his wet hair were coming down, framing his face, drawing me into his piercing eyes until I felt like I was drowning in them. He slowly and carefully worked his body between my legs, moving my knees with his hips as he got so close, never looking away from me, never breaking that pulling eye contact.
I let out a gasp as I felt one of his hands trail up my arm, breaking the surface of the water as he trailed up my biceps and shoulder to my collarbone, caressing the space in the crook of my neck. His smile dropped as his eyes focused on my lips.
“Let me kiss you, Emerald. Let me show you how good I can make you feel, how explosive we can be together like this.” I was panting now, looking at his lips with so much desire I felt like it was going to rush out of me at any moment. My legs were trembling, ready to take this to the next level, ready to wrap them around him and ride him into oblivion.
Before I could drop all logic and succumb to this seduction, I needed to get one thing straight between us. “If we do this, it changes nothing-”
“It changes everything.” His eyes got bright as he looked back down at the water, like he could see my whole naked body and was excited.
I snatched his chin in my hand and tilted his head back up to look me in the eyes. “No. It doesn’t change that I am in charge. It doesn’t change that I’m still holding imprisonment against you. It doesn’t change that this can only be this, a release between two bodies. Nothing more.” I let go of his chin, seeing my words sink into his brain as he thought them over.
“You are right that it doesn’t change the first two, and I wasn’t looking for a way out of your service, but we are going to have to agree to disagree with that last one.” His resolve hardened his face, “because I am coming for you, Emerald. I want more than just sex with you.” I opened my mouth to argue, but he put a finger to my lips and I shut them. “You have made it clear that this is just a release for you, and I respect that, but by the same token I want more than that, I’m going to work for more than that, and I want you to respect that.”
I open my mouth again and he covers it with his hand as he continues, “I know where you stand, but I have to try, Emerald. I have to try to make you mine, or else I feel like I’m going to go crazy.” His eyes bounced between mine, imploring me to believe the words he was saying. How serious he was about it.
I could feel something change inside of me. Like I was a closed up flower and Zayden was lifting one petal and turning it outwards, opening me up just a crack to let in some of his rays. I lifted my hand, circling around his wrist that covered my mouth, and forced it off my lips. His eyes held a plea, begging me to let him just try. How could I refuse that look?
I snaked out my tongue and wrapped it around his first finger, taking it into my mouth as I sucked and bit on it and watched his face flood with overwhelming lust and desire. Right then and there, I decided I was going to let him try. I couldn’t deny him the chance, even as logic was telling me that once he learned the truth, he would turn away from me, my heart kept telling me there was a scrap of a chance he wouldn’t, and I needed to take that chance.
He bent forward, resting his forehead on mine as he let out a delicious moan that I felt deep in my soul. “I am going to make you feel so good, my gem.” I bit down on his finger again as he bit the side of his lip in response.
“I’m counting on it.” A sultry voice broke from my lips, one I was not used to, and his lips turned up.
