Page 40 of From the Ground Up


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“Water sounds great. Thanks,” Barrett says then nudges my knee with his to break me out of my trance.

“Oh yeah, that sounds great for me, too. Thank you.”

She smiles in our direction before saying, “Absolutely. I’ll be right back with that.”

As soon as she’s out of earshot, my eyes dart to Barrett in surprise, my eyebrows, no doubt, touching my hairline. His eyes twinkle.

“Babe, this is the start of our week of us. I want you to relax and know that this will be a way to get a head start on that.”

“I can’t believe you did this. Thank you. You’re the bestest ever,” I say before I lean over and give him a soft lingering kiss to the cheek.

He chuckles and wraps me in his strong arms before releasing me back into my seat. “I love you, pretty girl.”

“I love you, too. A whole lot.”

His eyes flare, and I know he remembers the first time we voiced those words to each other.

“I can’t wait to have you alone for an entire week,” he growls into my ear, which causes a shiver to wrack my body.

Our masseuses interrupt our moment and announce that they’re ready for us. They each have a bottle of water in their hands, no doubt from front desk woman.

“I’m Kate,” a petite little thing tells us. She’s adorable. Her black hair is in a short pixy, cut with streaks of purple. She has tattoos down both her arms and up the left side of her neck, a small diamond pierced into the side of her right nostril, and she’s dressed in all black from her tank top and leggings to her shoes.

“I’m Georgie,” the other girl says. She, too, is dressed in all black but looks a bit more conservative, though she does have a streak of bright pink through her platinum blonde hair that’s pulled into a high ponytail. Her smile is infectious, and I notice that she has a piercing in the corner of her mouth.

We follow Kate and Georgie down the short hallway and into the room where I assume our couple’s massage will happen. The room is almost entirely white, with the beds and even the walls covered in creamy white, satiny sheets. The pin tucks in the center of the sheets that hang from the wall make them look like giant bowties, and sheets drape from the ceiling to create a canopy effect. Placed on the floor at the foot of the beds are large red pots filled with water. The white candles floating atop of the water are lit, giving off a romantic feel to the room.

Two beds sit in the middle of the room, not next to one another, but facing each other, just a little off-set. It looks as though they are close enough that we will be able to touch and... see each other's eyes.

Everything about the room shouts romance and seduction but it is also calm and tranquil, and I feel myself relax instantly.

Kate turns to Barrett and tells him what to expect while Georgie does the same to me. I barely contain my giggle at Barrett obviously trying his damnedest not to question Kate's abilities. She can’t possibly weigh more than one hundred pounds, but she looks totally badass, and there is no way I'm going to question her. She's a masseuse, trained in pressure points. My luck we may offend her and she'll do something to make us pee ourselves in the middle of the massage. Nothing says romantic couple's massage like pants pissing.

After we tell Kate and Georgie that we don't have any major or specific needs, they let us know we can undress to just our underwear and slide under the sheet. I see Barrett's face go pale before he clears his throat.

“Come again?” Barrett asks, his head turned to the side.

Kate turns to him and politely says, “Just undress down to your underwear and slide under the sheet.”

“Any other way we can do this?”

“I’m sorry?”

“Any other way we can do this massage?”

“Well, I guess you can lie on top,” she says, looking a tad uncomfortable with that option.

“No. Can't you just like go under my clothes or something? Do I have to undress?”

Kate looks at him with a completely baffled expression and looks uncomfortable but smiles like he just made a joke and walks out the door with a giggling Georgie behind her. No doubt they're laughing their asses off at the moron not wanting to undress.

“Care to explain that?” I ask.

“I think I made a mistake. Tess, do you realize how horny I am?”

Nope. Can't contain my laughter. He looks so serious, damn near scared.

“Should I be worried about the fact you're worried about being horny during a massage by another woman?”

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