Chapter 75: Inch by Inch
** Harper **
Alright, now Harper was beginning to understand the hardship of "keeping your hands off". No pun intended.
She wondered if she should feel flattered, that he was already all the way there just from taking her clothes off. The thing in front of her was jutting straight up at her eye level, and it seemed to be ... growing bigger by the second as she kept staring at it. Maybe she should take it as hard evidence that he indeed found her attractive?
She also wondered if she should feel ... impressed, by the size of it.
Granted, she had not seen another fully naked man in person before — only in movies, and movies involved lens distortions and misleading perspectives and post-processing — so she had no baseline to make a fair comparison with. But given the standards she had learned from those movies and various books, as well as the standards that she had applied to her own web novel ... what she was seeing seemed to be exceeding them. By quite a bit.
Those thoughts distracted her, and she simply squatted there, staring in a daze. When she finally broke away and looked up, she found Eli still watching her with that amused smile over his lips. Only his gaze had darkened even more, and the sheer intensity of it made a thrilled shudder pulse through her.
"I’m sure nothing can come as that much of a surprise," he said. "You’ve already measured me inch by inch last time, and I fully expect you to do it again very soon." He glanced at the shower. "Shall we?"
Oh yes. Hell yes.
Harper sprang to her feet and darted over to the shower. She turned on the sprayer, and as she leaned into the tub to test the water, she could feel the heated burn of Eli’s eyes behind her back. She smiled to herself, knowing that he was checking out her butt.
They could surely get plenty of checking out done in this shower.
She climbed in when the water was warm. Eli followed immediately, without the need of an invitation. The spraying mist and rising steam clung to his skin as he folded his tall frame into the modestly sized space, and Harper stared again, entranced by how the soft glisten of water droplets brought out all the ridges and dips running along his hard chest.
Her enjoyment of the view was only interrupted when he bumped his elbow against the shower door while trying to close it behind them. It turned out, unsurprisingly, that the modest space wasn’t quite big enough for her to simply stand in the middle of the tub and stare.