Total pages in book: 94
Estimated words: 88235 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 88235 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 441(@200wpm)___ 353(@250wpm)___ 294(@300wpm)
Chain had planned everything he was going to say to her but it could wait. Right now his female’s comfort was more important than anything else.
“Of course,” he said, smiling. “Though maybe you’d rather take a relaxing bath instead? I have a bathing pool in my fresher.”
“A bathing pool? That sounds wonderful.” She nodded gratefully. “Lead the way, please—I’d love to take a soak in the pool.”
Chain led her into the fresher, which was much larger than the usual human “restroom” as they called it, and included a free-standing shower unit as well as the bathing pool, which was set into the floor and about as big around as a large hot tub. It was considerably deeper than a hot tub, though and he wondered with concern if Victoria could swim.
“Here you are,” he said, indicating the steaming water. “You can control the temperature and water flow from here…” He showed her the controls.
“Oh, thank you. I think I get it.” Victoria nodded.
“It’s quite deep, though,” Chain told her, unable to help voicing his worry for her. “Tell me—can you swim?”
“I can but I’m pretty tired right now. Maybe…” She bit her lush lower lip and looked at him uncertainly.
“Yes?” Chain asked, looking at her intently. “Whatever it is, you can say it, Victoria.”
“Well I just thought maybe you could…could come in with me?” she asked, looking up at him. “I mean, not as a, uh, sexual thing or anything,” she added quickly, her cheeks getting pink again. “Just as a safety measure. I wouldn’t want to fall asleep and go under, right? And you’ve had a rough night too—I figured you might like a soak as much as I would.”
“You ‘figured’ right,” Chain said, smiling at her. His heart was pounding at the thought of being naked with his beautiful Victoria but he told himself that she had specified there would be no sex. He would be careful and respect her boundaries. Still, at least he would be allowed to see her beautiful body again.
“Okay, good then.” Victoria smiled at him. “Let’s get in then, I guess.”
Chain nodded. “Yes, let’s.”
She turned her back modestly and began to undress and after a moment, Chain did the same. Boundaries, he reminded himself as he did so. No matter how much you want her, you must respect her boundaries.
But Gods, it was going to be really hard to look at her beautiful naked body without touching her!
* * * * *
God, I can’t believe I asked him to take a bath with me! What happened to doing the sensible thing? Vicky asked herself as she pulled off her clothes with shaky hands. She’d only had on an old pair of jeans and a t-shirt so there wasn’t much to take off. She made a face of disgust as she saw the splatter of green alien goo on the back of the jeans. She was definitely going to have to wash those before she could put them on again.
As soon as she was naked, she turned quickly for the pool, hoping to get in first before Chain could see her. Of course, he’d seen her completely naked that night on Priima Belle—seen her and done a whole lot more. But she had been really tipsy at the time and she was much more shy and retiring about her body when she was sober.
Thank goodness the float dots are still in place, she thought as she looked down at her breasts, which were still riding high and proud. These things are great—I’m never taking them off! They—
Her thoughts cut off abruptly when she turned and saw that Chain was already in the pool, waiting for her.
“Oh, uh…” She laughed nervously and attempted to cover herself with her arms.
“Are you shy to let me see you, beautiful Victoria?” he murmured, smiling up at her. “Don’t be—I love your luscious curves, my little Elite.”
Oh, that’s right—he’s into plus-sized women, Vicky reminded herself. Still, she couldn’t help blushing as she lowered herself into the warm water and settled across the bathing pool from Chain.
But once she was submerged to her chin in the steaming water, she found she couldn’t stay tense. The water felt silky against her body—as though it had some kind of skin conditioning treatment in it. Vicky found it incredibly relaxing and her muscles began to unknot for the first time in hours.
“Mmm,” she moaned leaning her head against the side of the pool and not caring if the bottom of her hair was getting wet. “This feels so good.”
“It’s very relaxing after a night of doing battle,” Chain agreed.
Vicky laughed quietly.
“Yes, I guess so. Though I wasn’t expecting to be fighting for my life on family movie night.”
“I’m so sorry about what happened with the Varians.” Chain looked at her seriously. “I feel like it’s all my fault. And your domicile—”