Water coursed down their bodies as they emerged from the ocean onto the sand.
"I thought it would take you longer to learn how to swim. And in the Ocean, too!" He put his arm round her, running a finger on her midriff.
"Thanks to your expert coaching, sweetheart!" She squirmed a bit but did not jump away from him as she would have a short while before. It amazed both of them that her sensitivity at being touched had all but vanished. Kicking through the sand, they climbed the steps that led them onto the lawn in front of the hotel and washed off excess salt from themselves at the shower. They circled the swimming pool on the way to her room on the ground floor.
She gave him a hesitant look as if she were not quite sure he should get into her room. But his hand on her buttocks served to confuse her out of saying anything. He only took his hands off her for the time it took him to lock the door. In scant seconds he was peeling off her swimming costume, lingering to caress her firm breasts. "Mmmh, how I love these!"
He bent to pull down his trunks and pulled her into the shower. Laughing, she allowed herself to be led. She was already enjoying all this so much that any thought of letting him go from had completely fled.
In the bath they soaped each other amidst loud gusts of laughter. She only spared a moment to reflect how unlikely this had been to her only a few weeks before. Even though she had felt her heart throbbing for this man, she would never have thought she would stand naked in front of anyone, man or woman. Yet here she was, stark naked with a man, running her hand all over his soap-slick body without a backward thought!
"So you are enjoying seeing my nakedness?"
Instead of a reply, it startled her to feel his hands between her legs doing a thorough cleaning job of her. He ran them up along the inside of one thigh, then down the other, rubbing enthusiastically. Then she felt him turn a palm upwards to get at her pubic area, and she almost without a thought parted her legs a little to allow him easier access.
"Thank you for making my job easier, darling!"