Bette felt the bump of Tina’s emergent belly press against the rise of her cheeks just below the small of her back. She shut her eyes and smiled, thinking the intimate gesture was indescribably sexy.

Tina held Bette tightly against her by the waist, savoring the moment. After a few seconds, Bette reached down to turn off the taps.

“Soak with me, T?” Bette asked quietly. “Mmmhmm,” Tina answered after a few beats.

Tina let Bette relax against one end of the soaking tub, and sank slowly into the inviting comfort of the warm water filled with bubbles, squatting until she sat on Bette’s lap.

She picked up a face towel on the side of the tub, squirted some of the bath liquid soap she’d also packed for Bette, and worked up a lather with the soap and towel, and then began to rub the brunette down, starting with the long, graceful neck now stretched out as Bette relaxed her neck on the folded towel she’d laid on top of the ledge behind the end she was relaxing against. Tina splashed some water playfully on Bette’s neck to slightly rinse the soap off, inciting a small, tired smile from the brunette.

Then she rubbed down Bette’s shoulders with the face towel, followed by cleansing motions on the brunette’s arms, lifting each arm off of the ledges Bette had rested them on. Tina tossed the face towel onto the ledge behind her, and licked her lips, anticipating what more she could do to Bette.

She dipped her hands under the water and started feeling her way around Bette’s body. As if moving on its own, her hands found the familiar contours of the brunette’s chest area.  She gently squeezed each breast as she explored further, massaging them, and then circled her thumbs over the brunette’s nipples, enjoying the writhing reactions openly displayed on the brunette’s face as Bette succumbed, unable to help herself despite being bone- tired.

Tina let her hands roam under the water, squeezing and caressing whatever she could touch, and then leaned forward, to lay several kisses on Bette’s long neck. Bette moaned softly as Tina followed that up with a few licks under the brunette’s jaw, finally able to taste the tender skin.  She tracked the vein that she knew pulsed wildly from behind an ear with her tongue.