I blushed at the realisation that we were both entirely without clothing but took his hand and let him help me into the shower. The warm water came down over my shoulders and I let out a slow sigh as it hit me. My whole body had been waiting for this without knowing it.
I jumped when Phoenix's hands came to my shoulders, his thick fingers pressing into the muscle there and working down my spine with a focused pressure that immediately found every knot I had accumulated over the past week. A sound escaped me that I had not planned and I felt myself going soft in the way that happens when the body finally gets permission to stop holding everything together.
