"Hello."
I closed the front door behind me as I stepped into the house and waited for a response.
"Hello?" No response.
It had been a long day at work, and I was arriving home later than usual, but I figured that my wife couldn't be in bed asleep already. As I listened for a moment for her reply, I heard something else and it all came into perspective.
From the upstairs en suite bathroom, I could hear water running. Not the soft gentle rain of the shower, but the deep rumble of the bathtub being filled up. Now it made sense - she couldn't hear me because she was in the bath. Listening closely now, I could of her favorite dance tunes playing - that meant she was relaxing and enjoying her evening, which made me smile.
Knowing that meant she was, right now, behind the door at the top of the stairs, likely naked and lounging in a tub of hot water certainly perked me up. Long day or not, that's certainly something that brings fresh energy to a man when he arrives home.
Taking off my suit jacket and tie, I draped them over the bannister and started upstairs. Half way up the stairs the water stopped running, and I figured that she would for sure hear me as my shoes took the steps toward our bedroom door, then through the door toward the en suite. From the steam in the hallway, I knew that my guess was right and indeed there was a hot bath on the other side of the bathroom door even before I opened it.
"Hello." I said again just before opening the door; so as to not shock anyone.
"Hi honey." I heard, and I opened the door to see my wife ensconced in the extra long tub we had specially installed when we renovated the bath a couple of years back. A full soaker tub we called it, long enough for her to almost completely stretch out her lithe 5'3" frame in. And there indeed she was, propped up slightly at one end, only her neck and the tops of her shoulders visible, her face flushed slightly from the heat of the water. The rest of her lay very modestly sunken underneath water and a fine layer of bath bubbles. At the other end of the tub, just the tips of her toes peeked up through the water as her feet rested on the tile next to the faucet.
Closing the door behind me so as not to let out any of the heat out of the room, I stood for a moment and admired. Her long dark hair was arranged behind her so that it would not fall into the water, which accentuated the smooth curve of the tops of her shoulders above the water. Her skin looked like silk with a sheen of moisture from the steaming water and whatever moisturizing bath product she was using. She really did look good enough to eat, or at least good enough to nibble on for a good long time.
She looked back at me with an adoring, but slightly glazed look in her eyes. Must be the heat from the bath, I thought. Looking again, I saw the glass of wine next to the tub. Hmmm - maybe she's had more than a few glasses of wine? That might explain the oddly distant look in her eyes as she luxuriated in the bubbly water. It didn't matter the reason, because here she was: relaxed, aglow and naked with a smile on her face. The starting point for many a fantasy...and just as many real evenings we've spent together.
After I'd been staring at her perhaps a bit too blatantly for a few seconds, I noticed the change in the background noise in the room. The music was still playing from the small speaker on the counter, but something changed. Looking at her quizzically, I saw the guilty, mischievous look on her face, it began to occur to me what the absence of sound was. As the realization dawned, I smiled knowingly back at her.
A few months ago, while on vacation, on a whim we had gone into an store specializing in adult toys and gotten her a new vibrator. In the many uses both alone, and with me, since then, it had become her all-time favorite. One aspect of that toy that I knew about (but until now had not seen in practice) was that it was waterproof. As she saw my dawning realization, she pushed a few bubbles away with her left hand to show me her right hand, holding her matte black vibrator right next to her neatly trimmed pussy.
With a smile, she touched a button on the device, the background hum started again and her eyes resumed their glazed look. She sank an inch or two deeper into the tub and I could see her toes wriggle as she made herself more comfortable. Her hand and her toy disappeared from view, but now it took very little imagination on my part to know exactly what was going on.
Now, I've watched my wife masturbate many times in the past, so I know that she quite enjoys when I watch. This experience of finding her in the middle of the act, and only being able to see her face and neck while she was doing it however, was quite different. Somewhat caught off guard, I simply stood there across the bathroom for a few moments, enjoying the site and trying to decide what to do next.
For a minute of more, she seemed content for me to simply watch, which was absolutely fine with me. By now, it would be quite obvious to her the erection under my pants. But I was happy to enjoy watching her pleasure for now, knowing that my own turn would come before the night was finished.
Her eyes continued to open and then glaze shut repeatedly as she settled into a groove with her toy obviously hitting just the right spots. It was one of the elements I enjoyed most about watching her touch herself was the losing battle she fought to keep her eyes open. She would try valiantly to keep a focus on the world around her as her passion rose and rose, until it would ultimately become too much and she simply stopped trying to be present and lost herself in her own pleasure.