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A few steps, and they had finally made it to the edge of the hot tub. What would have taken Leo at most five minutes had turned into a fifteen-minute ordeal by the time he was peeling off his shirt.
“Jesus, fuck.” Piper’s curse took him off guard. He jerked around to face her again as he tossed his shirt onto a nearby pool chair.
“What? Your ankle?” He quickly crossed the distance between them.
“No, um, you just…” Her eyes roved over his chest, and he felt his heart rate pick up. “I wasn’t expecting you to be so…” She gestured to his chest with a self-explanatory hand motion.
Leo looked down at himself, amusement pulling at the corner of his mouth as he rattled off some options for her to choose from. “Rugged? Hot? The most sexually appealing person you’ve ever met?”
“Whatever sex appeal you briefly had, it’s now gone.” Piper folded her arms over her chest. The corners of his mouth quirked up as he reached for the button on his pants. Piper’s eyes widened. “What are you doing?”
“I’m not whipping my dick out, if that’s what you’re thinking, but I’m also not swimming in jeans.” He probably should have changed into shorts before heading over, because now he was about to be stuck with Piper in a hot tub wearing only his black boxer briefs. The water would hopefully be obscuring enough to hide any growing problems down below, and he’d turn on the jets just to make sure of it. The fact that he decided to make direct eye contact with her while he dropped his pants and stepped out of the legs was yet another on the long list of things he should have reconsidered. To his surprise, Piper reached for the waist of her bike shorts. “Wait. What are you doing?”
“Same thing as you. I’m going to wear my underwear so I don’t get these wet. I want to sleep in them.” Piper gave him a shy smile, and he had to take a deep inhale to refocus after she used the words “wet” and “underwear” in the same sentence.
“This is a fucking strip tease,” Leo mumbled under his breath as he sat down on the edge of the hot tub after turning on the jets. He did his best not to look up and utterly failed. Pink lace underwear peeked out from under the hem of Piper’s long T-shirt once her bike shorts had pooled around her ankles and she’d removed her hoodie. He hadn’t failed to notice her lack of a bra earlier in the car, either. The slow, shaky breath he let out as he slid into the hot, steaming water did nothing to quell his hunger for another taste of her. He had been right about the relaxing feeling of soaking his travel-worn limbs and entirely wrong about it relieving any sexual tension. “You coming?” he called back to her.
I want you to come, his brain aptly supplied.
“Mm-hmm.” Piper slid into the water beside him, carefully babying her ankle.
“How bad is it?” Leo inquired, trying not to focus on her shirt in the places it floated around her breasts or clung to her figure.
“I’ll be all right.” She shrugged.
“I’ll drive tomorrow, okay?”
“I was going to ask if you could.” Piper looked away and bit her lip, her face falling into a somber expression. The way he’d known exactly what she was thinking before she even asked had his chest feeling tight.
“You’re scared to drive again,” he stated.
“I’ll get over it like I do every time I get into a car, but…”
Leo bobbed his head in understanding. “You want to wait a bit. I get it. I’ll drive. I’m glad I stayed.”
“Me too.”
“Can I see it?” He lifted his eyebrows and then added “your ankle” for some unnecessary clarification. Piper lifted her bare leg out of the water and stretched her foot toward him, leaning back against the hot tub wall with her hips tipped toward him in a painfully erotic motion that made his cock twitch. He gingerly grabbed her calf to steady her, desperately wanting to slide his hand up to part her legs with his fingers. “It’s a little swollen, but ice and heat will help.”
“I guess we’re starting with heat,” Piper murmured. He made eye contact with her as he slowly dropped her leg back into the water, and he really didn’t mean to skim his fingers over her leg again, but he couldn’t help but to touch her just a little longer. The puff of air Piper let out made him rip his hand back.
“S-sorry.” Leo winced. He was really digging himself into a hole with every burning need for touch that he acted on. Reeling it in would be a much better option.
“Is it really so horrendous to touch me that you have to have that reaction every time?” Piper curled her lips over her teeth and scooted a few inches farther from him. “I realize we don’t like each other, but if you keep jumping away from me when we so much as brush shoulders or practice a scene, I’m going to get a complex.” She played it off as a joke, but he could tell she meant it, so he made the stupid mistake of shifting closer to her. Her breath hitched when his leg knocked against hers.
“You’re sitting next to me,” Leo licked his bottom lip, “wearing only your underwear and a T-shirt that does nothing to hide the fact that you aren’t wearing a bra.” It was too late to make better choices. He twisted his torso to face her more directly. “I want to do more than just touch you, Piper.”
“What do you want to do?” Piper angled herself toward him and leaned forward a little, her eyelashes fluttering. The only thing that separated them was the steam billowing up between their wet bodies.
“I want to make you lose control.” His chest rose and fell in quick breaths as he scanned her face, waiting.
She grinned maliciously. “I don’t think you could.”
“Don’t tempt me with a good time.” To test the waters even more, he let his fingers drag over one of her thighs. She squirmed a little in her seat.
“It’s not as easy as you think it would be.” Whatever confidence she had displayed a mere second ago vanished as she blushed prettily. He was desperate to know if she did that when she came, too. “No one’s ever made me…”
“You can say ‘come,’ Piper,” Leo teased and scooted even closer, his breaths getting shallower when he felt her leg press harder against his. Her chest tipped closer to him, like she couldn’t help herself, and he dropped his eyes to admire her body with a smirk. “I think you’re wound so tight that I could touch you through your underwear and get you off with just my fingers.”
