Red Hot Reunion - Bella Andre Page 0,35
was sticking to it.
After a delicious lunch at a gourmet deli that some good friends of his owned in Yountville, they’d driven up to the natural hot springs in Calistoga and were standing at the edge of an outdoor rock mineral bath.
On the middle of a weekday, it was unlikely that many tourists were bound to find this spot.
In under sixty, his clothes were lying on a pile of rocks and he was getting into the water.
Emma looked around the deserted forest uncertainly. “We’re going in naked?”
“It’s the only way to get the full benefits of the hot springs,” he exaggerated.
“Oh,” she said, biting her lip in that sexy way of hers. “But what if someone walks by?”
He wrapped one hand around her ankle. “Then I guess they’ll get a really good show, won’t they?”
She pulled her ankle away as if he’d burned her. “Don’t be ridiculous,” she said, once again the prim and proper girl that he knew so well.
He shrugged, intent on seeing how far she would try to take the new bad girl persona she’d been trying on these past few days with the new lingerie and willingness to have sex in kinky places. He wasn’t stupid.
He knew she hadn’t changed in the past ten years. Her coming to Napa, her acting like a bad girl, it was all connected. At some point he’d find out what was up.
Or not, he thought, trying to convince himself that he really didn’t care, that payback didn’t have one single thing to with understanding the woman Emma had become. Revenge, he knew, didn’t have
anything to do with being gentle and nice to Emma. Not when it would be so much easier in the long run to let her go if he kept her at arm’s length.
“I should have known you’d be too uptight to skinny-dip.” He purposely made his words a challenge.
Instead of meekly backing down, she retorted, “After what we just did in the hot air balloon, I can’t believe you have the nerve to call me uptight.”
He merely shrugged and said, “That was earlier. This is now.” Upping the ante, he added, “Besides, if strangers show up either they’ll run screaming…or they’ll want to join us.”
Jason enjoyed watching Emma’s eyes grow huge at the thought of a ménage. Continuing to push at her innate propriety, he said, “Ever thought about a threesome? Or a foursome?”
She shook her head so quickly, her blond hair went flying and a strand got caught on her lips. “No,” she gasped. “I haven’t.”
He knew what was coming. Of course she was going to be curious. How could she not be?
Finally she said, “I’ll bet you have though, haven’t you?” her tone clearly defensive, rather than simply curious.
But he wasn’t going to let her get away with being too embarrassed to say what she really meant. “Done what? Gone skinny-dipping in a mineral bath? Sure. Lots of times.”
Her frustration at the way he’d purposefully misunderstood her question was crystal clear in her blue eyes. “No. That’s not what I meant. I was asking if…” Her lips were plump and juicy as she nervously licked at them. “You’ve been with more than one person. More than one woman. At the same time. Have you?”
He grinned at her erotic accusation, rather pleased with himself for getting her all in a dither. She was so much fun to toy with. Always had been, come to think of it.
“Do you really want to know the answer, sweetheart?”
She stared at him for a long moment before nodding.
“Come in the water, then, and I’ll tell you what you want to know.”
She warred with herself, standing there in front of him, and he was pleased when she began pulling her dress up over her head and kicking off her shoes. Still in her panties, she dipped a toe in.
“Not so fast, Emma. Naked mineral baths only. Those are the rules.”
“The rules?”
She looked around for a sign, the cutest rule follower he’d ever met.
“My rules,” he said, his voice suddenly husky as he took in her incredible beauty in pink silk.
He could tell she was still upset with him for accusing her of being uptight, but he wasn’t going to apologize. Even if he wanted to.
Her tone petulant, she demanded, “What are you going to do if I don’t obey you and your stupid rules?”
“Spank you, of course.”
That stopped her in her tracks, just as he’d known it would. Her eyes grew big again and her ni**les hardened. He made a mental