When we got home that night, I took a shower and pulled on my shorts, then told Alicia the bathroom was hers. She went in and I could hear the water running for her bath.
Once I could tell she had slipped into the warm water, I took her a glass of wine. She quickly closed a book and pushed it over to the table next to the tub. I smiled. It was a book of erotic stories I'd deliberately left there hoping she would check it out.
After carefully placing the wine near the book, I exited the bathroom but did not fully close the door. Through the narrow opening, I knew I would be able to watch her through a mirror that I'd placed opposite the bathtub.
From this angle I could see her lovely naked body as she lounged in the tub, sipped her wine, and (soon enough) returned to reading the erotic stories in the book.
The context here is that although we'd been married for some years, I'd never been able to get Alicia to totally open up to me -- on any level, let alone about sex. I was getting frustrated; as her husband, I expected her to trust me more than she seemed able to be able to do.
But lately, through sharing fantasies and real experiences, we seemed to be on the verge of a breakthrough.
Now, as I watched her, she seemed fascinated by the story she was reading. I wondered which one it might be -- the one about a woman being felt up by a stranger on the subway, the one about the young wife who sunbathed in her backyard in front of some workers on the roof of the house next door, or maybe the one about the woman who skinny dipped in front of a young man in a river.
There were other stories as well, but those were the ones that might appeal to Alicia, as near as I could fathom her fantasy life. There also was a story about a woman spanking her husband that I suspected she would like.
Since I had no way to know which story she was reading, I could only watch at the result it was having on her. As she continued reading, holding the book in her left hand, her right hand started moving to her right breast.
I caught my breath as she started caressing herself, rubbing her nipple. She stopped for a moment to turn the page, then continued her self-caress,
As I spied on her, I slipped down my shorts and started rubbing my erect cock. This was such a turn-on!