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Yesterday, Val had told my sister I meant more to him than a partner for a sex tape.
A little shiver coursed through me, but not the sexy kind. Getting attached to Val was a bad, bad, bad idea. The man was a notorious exhibitionist, he made sex tapes that he kept on his phone forever after, and he loved the spotlight. I needed my privacy, would've fled from the spotlight if one had ever veered in my direction, and never took my clothes off anywhere except inside my house. We were completely wrong for each other.
Yesterday I had, for the first time ever, disrobed outdoors.
Sure, Val had been the only one there. Heidi's accidental glimpse couldn't have amounted to much. Why had I gotten naked at the hot spring? Why had I had sex outdoors? That wasn't me at all. So of course, the one time I'd done anything of the sort, I'd gotten caught in the act. At least my parents hadn't seen it.
Would it have been horrible if they had? I was an adult, after all. They knew, because my guests had gossiped about it, that I was getting it on with Val. They knew I ran a nudist resort. Would they have cared if I became a nudist? Not that I was planning to do that.
"Qual é o problema?" Val asked.
"Huh?"
"I asked what's wrong. You're puckering your whole face. So what is the problem?"
"Nothing, not really. I was reliving the moment when we walked out of the woods together yesterday. My family must've heard from the other guests that you and I are, um, you know."
"Fucking? Yes, I'm sure they did." He strolled up to the bed and settled his taut ass onto it in front of me. "But they would've guessed we're more than friends anyway. We were holding hands when we walked out of the woods."
Holding hands? He'd tried to do that on the way out to the hot spring, but I wouldn't let him. On the way back, I'd been too freaked out to notice anything short of Bigfoot leaping out to snarl at us. When I thought about it now, I remembered the soothing warmth of his hand in mine.
"Guess you're right," I said. "And I know I've been an idiot about all of this. I'm sorry. Please don't think I'm ashamed of having anyone know about us. I'm not."
He reached out to sweep a lock of hair away from my face, tucking it behind my ear, and grazed his fingertips down my cheek. "I tempted you to step outside your comfort zone. That wasn't easy for you, I know."
"It was easier than I'd thought it would be." That was the honest truth. I hadn't hesitated for more than a few seconds when Val suggested I strip and jump into the hot spring with him. Sex in the warm water, with him, had been one of the best experiences of my life.
Being with him was the best experience, period.
He moved closer, his hip pressed against mine, and looped an arm around my waist. "What else can I tempt you to try,docinho?"
Gazing into his sultry brown eyes, I forgot all about my inhibitions and silly worries about privacy. I wanted to do anything and everything with him.
I blinked rapidly as I realized he'd thrown another Portuguese word at me. "What did you say?Docinho? I don't know what that means."
He shifted his ass on the bed and cleared his throat. "It means sweetie."
Not long ago, I would've bristled at his use of endearments. He'd called mebebêandlinda, and I hadn't minded at all. Hearing him call me sweetie in his native tongue… I liked it. A lot.
Because he meant more to me than a casual sex partner.
Holy shit. It was true. The revelation tingled over my skin, raising the hairs at my nape, but it wasn't fear triggering my response. All my anxieties over getting attached to Val and whether our lives could mesh melted away at the instant I'd realized he meant something to me, something more than the best lover I'd ever had. Sure, we still might not work as a couple. We lived in different worlds, different planes of reality. But here, now, for as long as he stayed with me, I would enjoy our fledgling connection and the silky warmth it engendered in me.
I glided my palm up his torso, from his waist to his pecs. "I think you could tempt me to do just about anything."
He tickled my bottom with one long finger. "In that case, I'll have to think about what I most want to seduce you into doing with me."
"I have an idea."
One of his dark brows lifted. "What is it?"
"Take a shower with me."
"You do realize if we take a shower together, I will ravish you."
"I'm counting on it."
We dashed into the bathroom and enjoyed a long, steamy shower. The actual steam from the hot water filled the stall, but we also created our own steam. I locked my legs around his hips while he backed us up to the wall, directly under the shower head, and drove into me again and again until we both hit that peak together.
