leg over the edge into the bubbling water. The backstage area is dark except for the single light over the door to his Winnebago outside, and the dim blue glow of the “SAVED” sign on the other side of the wall, glowing up over the edge of it. I gasp at the heat of the water as I step all the way in and settle into the bubble tub. There’s a seat on my side, and I settle into it, the water burbling around my chin as my pulse races.
I smirk at Gabriel’s amused expression.
“Surprised?”
“A little,” he nods. He raises the bottle. “Drink?”
I shake my head. I might be a little crazy tonight, but I’m not that crazy.
He grins. “Didn’t think so. There’s Pepsi in the mini-fridge over there.” He nods at the small fridge plugged in to an extension cord under his table desk. I arch a brow and glance back at him.
“Um, can you get it?”
He laughs. “You can’t?”
“No!” I blush deeply.
“And why is that.”
“Um, because I’m in my underwear and a tank top.”
“And?”
I groan. “And I’m all wet, and I’m…” I blush. “And I’m not wearing a bra, and everything is going to be all… you know.”
He looks at me, and I sigh heavily.
“All see-through, okay?”
“Because your panties are all wet?”
My face turns crimson at the wolfish grin on his face.
“Look, forget it.”
Gabriel chuckles. “Alright, alright. I’ll get it for you. But only if you’re sure.”
“I’m quite sure,” I groan. “And thank you.”
He grins. “Don’t say I didn’t warn you.”
My brow wrinkles. “Warn me about wh—” I shriek and quickly squeeze my eyes shut as he stands, revealing every freaking inch of his dripping wet, sculpted, inked, completely naked body.
“Gabriel!” I gasp. “You’re naked!”
He laughs. “Well why in the hell would I go in my own hot tub with clothes on?”
“A bathing suit?” I blanche.
He chuckles deeply. “You still want that Pepsi?”
“No thank you,” I groan through tightly shut eyes.
There’s a sloshing sound of him settling back into the water.
“You can open them.”
“Are you decent?”
“I’m naked two feet away from you in a baptism tub, Delilah,” he growls. “Not sure if that’s going to fly as ‘decent’ by any metric.”
I smile. “You know what I mean.”
“I do, but I’m thinking that might go against the spirit of this entire thing.”
I blush, but I slowly open my eyes. He is, in fact, sitting back in the water. “Meaning?”
“You want me to ‘show you sin?’” he growls. “You want me to be your damn coach for the real world out there?”
I swallow, nodding slowly.
“Then why shy away? I mean that was your shot—a guy with basically no shame willing to let you take a peek.”
I blush furiously. “Well, maybe I don’t want a peek.”
Gabriel grins. “Sure you do.”
I drop my eyes as the heat pours over me.
“At some point in life, I’m just saying, you’re gonna see a man naked.”
“Yes, my husband,” I say tersely.
He rolls his eyes. “You know what, this was a bad idea.”
I frown. “What? Why?”
“Because I don’t think you really know why you came here, and I think this is a bad idea.” He takes a slow pull from his whiskey. “And I think you should go.”
Screw it. I purse my lips, my heart racing. I know exactly why I came here tonight. I’ve just been tiptoeing around it. I’ve even been pretending to myself that it’s not why I’m here, but it is.
“You know why I’m here?”
“No, not really. I thought I made that pretty clear—”
“For this.”
I stand from the little submerged seat, and the water sloshes as I cross the distance to him. And before either of us can say a word, or before I can second guess this, I slosh right over him and slide into his lap.
Oh God.
Oh, he’s naked, alright. I gasp as my bare thighs brush his, my knees slipping around his waist. And there, pulsing and throbbing and hardening against my panties, is his… his cock.
Gabriel growls, and suddenly his big hands slide over me, gripping my waist tightly. He looks up into my eyes as he holds me possessively in his lap, his erection throbbing like a beating muscle between my thighs and making me… well, making me wet. Sinfully, heart-pulsingly wet.
“You sure you know what you’re doing?” he growls.
“No,” I gasp. “But I’m done being scared that I don’t.”
He groans. “C’mere, beautiful.”
His hand slides up my back and tangles in my long hair. And suddenly, he pulls me into him, and I moan as his lips