“I could bathe.”I finally replied and slid my hand into hers, letting her pull me to my feet with a strength that surprised me. Where was she hiding all of that strength in her willowy frame? Once I was on my feet Aria began to unpack the basket on the bathroom counter and I watched over her shoulder with curiosity.
“Can you turn on the bath for me? Make it a little hotter than you are comfortable with so it stays warm longer.” Aria popped the top off of one of the many bottles, sniffing whatever was inside before setting it aside. She continued doing that, putting some things into one pile and some into the other until she had a small pile of what she deemed perfect for our bath.
The tub in the bathroom was a massive sunken monstrosity in the corner of the bathroom and I marveled at it for a moment before turning it on. The thing looked like a freaking jacuzzi, it even had a circular bench around the entire circumference of the tub and a set of steps that led into the tub itself. Every time I thought that I couldn’t be anymore surprised by Pack Simmons, they would take it up another notch. As I twisted the knob on the side of the tub, water began to shoot out of three different spigots which quickly began to fill the tub. I put my hand under the water, twisting the knob until the water was hot enough to make my skin smart.
“Any smells you don’t like?” Aria asked over her shoulder as she narrowed down her pile of potential bath products.
I thought about it for a moment, the scent of cigars’ smoke and cloves filling my nose as the memory of my most hated scent came unbidden into my mind, “Nothing musky please.” That was all I replied with as I swished my hand around in the hot water.
Aria moved a few bottles out of her pile and brought what we wanted with her to the tub and began to uncork bottles and pour them into the bathwater, which quickly began to fill with bubbles and the scent of lavender and something sweet began to fill the room. Finally, she finally took a dark blue bath bomb and popped it into the water, smiling with satisfaction as it fizzed in the water and a blue color began to spread out and change the color of our bathwater.
Pleased with her work, Aria turned to face me, “You can go ahead and get in...I can leave if you feel uncomfortable with me being in here?”
I was confused, “Why would I be uncomfortable? We have all the same giblets.”
Aria’s laugh was light and easy, “Yes, we have the same giblets, but I’m very interested in your giblets, and I’m hoping you are interested in mine. I want your bath to be relaxing, not sexy.”
Oh.Oh, my face flamed, and I was sure that a bright red blush was beginning to spread across my face which just made Aria’s smile grow even wider. She moved to leave the bathroom, but I stopped her, my fingers curling around the sleeve of her satin robe.
“No, it’s okay. I don’t mind.” I didn’t add that Iwasinterested in her giblets... err lady parts. Okay, neither of those sounded very good. I definitely needed to find a better term to refer to them. “Let’s take a bath together.”
Before I could second guess myself, I turned and stipped off my sweat-dampened flannel pajamas, suddenly a bit self-conscious. I haven’t been visibly naked in front of someone since I was a little girl. The heat rooms were always kept pitch black so that the omegas and the alphas that serviced them could be kept as anonymous as possible. I’m sure all of those alphas knew I was a bigger girl when they were servicing my heat—it was easy enough to feel my soft middle and bigger thighs—but something about the cover of darkness had taken me out of my head, and I hadn’t really ever worried about it.
But now, in front of someone that I was attracted to? Someone who looked like a model with her tall, willowy frame and smooth, brown-gold hair and striking, amber eyes? All of the little insecurities that I could usually ignore were starting to roar to the surface.
“You’re thinking way too hard over there, sweetheart,” Aria’s voice came from directly behind me, and when I turned I realized that she was fully naked as well. She stood at about five foot nine, maybe ten, and towered over my five foot three frame. Her skin was a burnished golden color that was even across her body which told me that she tanned in the nude(I’m just going to tuck that away into my ‘things I didn’t think were hot until now’ file). Her breasts were on the small side, tipped with dusky pink nipples. Her stomach was toned and flat and ended in a neatly waxed, little thatch of brown hair between her thighs. Yeah, I was definitely interested in her giblets... lady parts... I’d figure out a term that doesn't make me inwardly cringe later.
“Ready to hop in?” Aria asked, having finished her own perusal of my body. Her amber eyes were warm and hot but she was keeping her distance, sticking to her ‘this bath is for comfort and not for sexy times’ stance. Damn.
“Yep, yep,” I repeated twice and, together, we slipped into the tub for what was probably going to be the most interesting bath of my life.
CHAPTER 13
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Tibby was the cutesthuman being that I’d ever had the pleasure of being around. I watched as she slid into the tub, the bubbles quickly obscuring her freckled curves and soft breasts. She ducked in the bath until the water was up to her chin and gave me what I could only describe as a wobbly smile. If I didn’t know any better, I’d think that Tibby was feeling a bit shy. Again, so cute.
