She lies face down naked on the couch. With his fingers he pushes her hair off her neck. He rubs oil into her shoulders and kneads at the knots between her shoulder blades. He exerts pressure until she moans and his fingers become tired. He enjoys her figure. The luxury of feeling her body. They talk in whispers pretending she is his client. Pretending she is comfortable being naked with another man touching her body. The thought itself gives them a thrill in that it is so commonplace and yet so risque. He asks her if she wants a full body massage. He asks if she wants her bum massaged. He takes each cheek in turn. Then he traces oil from the top of her spine to her coccyx. Eventually she rolls onto to her side. They laugh. They talk. She tells him about a massage from years ago. Before she met him. She went alone to a luxury spa. It was in the city. She had been naked. Maybe she wore a paper thong. She couldn't remember. She could remember the strong smell of eucalyptus oil. She could remember that the massage had been given by a man. It was awkward, she tells him. It wasn't sensual. It wasn't what he imagined. Her buttocks had been massaged though. That she recalls. She admits reluctantly. She admits coyly.
She asks what he would think if she did that now?
He tells her he would be jealous.
Both of them are breathing more heavily. Tiptoeing around a potential transgression.
Eventually he elaborates.
I would be jealous but turned on, he says. I would find it hot.
I will remember that she says smiling. It is the answer she was expecting. What if he brought me to orgasm?
The question lingers in the air.
He doesn't answer for a while. Uncertain. He nods.
It would drive me crazy, he admits. I would be torn apart. But turned on at the same time.
She smiles. They've drunk too much. Her nudity is disarming. Then she goes on.
What if it wasn't just with his fingers though, but with his dick?
She watches him now. Eyebrows arched.
He is aroused. Her use of the word 'dick' hits him like a hammer blow. He could see she hesitated, it is not in her usual vocabulary.