I carried her into my cabin, closing the door behind us and kicking off my boots. Sitting on a wooden chair, I held onto her in my lap with one arm so that I could remove her boots with the other.
I tried to stand her on her feet, but she was so weak she couldn’t balance. Throwing off my coat one arm at a time, I peeled her out of her soaked jacket, scooping her into my arms again.
We were both drenched to the skin. The important thing now was to warm her up immediately. I carried her straight to the bathroom and into the shower, turning on the hot water and holding her so that her back was against the stream.
“Mmm,” she murmured, leaning into the warmth.
The glass enclosure was huge, and once her back was warmed, I swung her back and forth under the huge rainfall showerhead.
The chill was clinging to her clothing. Balancing her on her feet for a second, I pulled off her long-sleeved shirt, then her socks and her jeans, leaving her in a tank top and her underwear. Seeing how filthy my t-shirt was from chopping wood earlier, I yanked it off with one hand so that I didn’t get spiky wood chips on her.
I tried my best not to stare at her full, ripe breasts, barely contained under the peach fabric, as I concentrated on the color that was coming back to her sweet face. Holding her steady, I turned her away to rub her back briskly, my eyes falling to the round curves of her incredible ass.
“That feels nice,” she said softly.
“Good. Let’s rinse your face and hair now.”
Turning her back toward me, she was steadier on her feet, and as I tipped her face up to the water, she lifted her hands to scrub her skin, then we rinsed her hair.
Keeping an arm around her, I adjusted the water so that it wasn’t quite as hot, and we stood directly underneath it. As I held her against me, I saw that her arms dangled loosely at her sides at first, but then her hands snaked up my lower back to hold onto me.
At first I wasn’t sure if I was imagining it, but it soon became clear that she wasn’t just grabbing me for support, she was caressing my back. Her hips began to move against me slightly, then her right hand moved around my waist to slide up my chest.
Still holding her securely around the waist, I brushed wet tendrils of hair away from her eyes. “Kate, how do you feel? Do you know where you are?”
She looked up at me with a beautiful, slightly dopey smile. “I’d feel better if you held me tighter.”
She was staring at me as if she were entranced. I didn’t know whether she’d hit her head pretty hard, or if she’d just never been this close to a six-foot-five guy who was basically a wall of muscle.
“I’m Ray,” I said, leaning down to speak softly near her ear, over the sound of the falling water. “Can you feel your fingers and toes now?”
Her fingers wiggled against the skin of my lower back and the center of my chest, then dug in as she wiggled her feet around. “Everything works,” she purred, nuzzling against my chest as if she never wanted to leave.
“Are you dizzy at all, kitten? Is your vision blurry?”
She tilted her face up to look at mine. Her bright green eyes seemed clear. Her pupils were even and normally dilated. She appeared to be clear-headed, but from the way she was instantly so cuddly with me, I worried that she wasn’t quite herself.
Then I took a good, long look at those beautiful puffy pink lips, and felt my knees twitch as I tried to hold myself back from kissing her. My wet jeans were becoming tight, and it wasn’t from the hot water.
“I think I’m okay,” she said. “I just…I just need…”
My left hand dropped, cupping her soft round ass as I held her tighter against me. “Tell me what you need.”
She bit her lip, then tilted her head back to let the warm water spray straight across her face. Tilting her back a little, she laughed as she shook the water from her eyes.
“I need…” She looked up at me with a strange expression, then nodded to herself as if she had just made a decision. “Will you forgive a naughty kitten?”
Jesus, this young lady was pushing every single one of my buttons and I needed to get her the hell out of here right now before I did something completely inappropriate.
“I think you should be a good little kitten,” I said firmly. “We’re going to get out of the shower, and I’m going to bundle you up in some nice dry clothes, all right? Then after we get some food into you, I’m going to take you back to your cabin.”
“That’s not what I need,” she whispered.
I knew the right thing to do would be to shut off the water and wrap her in a towel. Instead, I leaned down to breathe into her ear, “Tell me what you need.”
Her beautiful face turned to me, crushing her lips into mine as both of her hands circled the back of my neck. Before I even knew what was happening, I was kissing her back, my tongue gliding seductively into her mouth as she moaned for me.
With a little jump, as if she knew I would catch her, my arms scooped under her hot ass as she wrapped her thighs around my waist. Pinning her against the shower wall, her wild moaning echoed off the tiles.