Divine Phoenix(Divine Creek Ranch 10)(100)
Grace must’ve caught a look of trepidation on Lily’s face because she waved and said, “Lily, you don’t have to skinny-dip if you don’t want to.”
Maya divested herself of her suit and dove in a smooth arc into the water stark naked as well.
Grace continued, “It’s just us girls. We have total privacy with the fence and all the shrubs but you do whatever feels most comfortable to you.”
Teresa patted the spot beside her where she sat dangling her legs in the water. “It’s fine either way, Lily. Come sit.”
“Thank you, Teresa,” she murmured as she lowered beside the brunette beauty who was still wearing her swimsuit. No way in hell was she revealing the tattoo hidden under her one-piece.
“I have stretch marks that are not ready for the light of day, or night. Joaquin tells me that I’m like a tiger who has earned her stripes.” Teresa did not say it as if she were denigrating herself. She seemed as though she was proud of her husband’s words.
“That’s really sweet of him.”
Teresa smiled, a faraway look in her eyes. “He’s a charmer. Both him and Angel are.” Quietly, she added, “If you have a bracelet or necklace you would like modeled, I’d be happy to do that, but I think it would be best if I not model the other pieces. They’d never say it, but I think Angel and Joaquin would prefer that I not reveal my body like that. And then of course there are these, she said, indicating her abdomen and her stretch marks.
“I have a beautiful connecting ring and bracelet combination with a matching anklet and toe ring that would look beautiful with your olive skin. Of course, any pieces you model for me, you get to keep.”
Teresa smiled enthusiastically, and before long Lily had the interest of all the women as they gathered around her. The girls teased Rosemary when she offered to model the clit clip, nipple clamp, and belly chain combination, which Lily hadn’t planned to take a picture of, except using a Plexiglas mannequin made for such pieces. The effect wasn’t as good, but there were some lines she couldn’t cross, even on a personal jewelry website.
Teresa laughed and said, “Lily, you should let Rosemary run that one by Evan right before she models it for you so you can get the full effect with his handprints on her derriere from the spanking.”
Lily giggled with all the others but unfortunately, memories of JT reared their ugly head, dampening her mood considerably.
Teresa patted her forearm. “I’m sorry, Lily. I shouldn’t have said that. I apologize.”
Lily waved a hand dismissively. “I understand the difference between erotic spanking and…what happened to me.”
Margot, the ballsy one on the bunch, asked, “What happened, Lily?”
Summer turned to her sister and said, “Lily was married to an abusive dickhead.”
Lily wished she’d schooled her reaction because the conversation turned to the men of their pasts who had done them wrong. She didn’t mean to be a downer. They talked about what they’d like to do to some of them, and before long they were joking about it and carrying on. Lily felt very much accepted and a part of the group.
Maya smiled from the water and said, “Lily? You sure you don’t want to join us…au naturel? It’s just us girls. The female bonding version of what the guys are probably doing.”
“What’s the female version of farting, belching, talking smack, and jacking off because they miss us?” Margot asked.
The girls all broke out into raucous laughter, and Summer replied, “Skinny-dipping!”
Lily was actually tempted, and Grace and Maya must’ve caught on, because Grace said, “It’s really okay. I dimmed the lights for this very reason. We’re not all raving nudists here. At least not this bunch. Now when my friends come visit from Bliss, Colorado? Boy, anything goes with those gals! It becomes like the Playboy mansion around here!”
Lydia Carlisle giggled. “So what you’re saying is this is a sedate gathering of mild-mannered women?”
Grace snickered. “Oh, hell, no. I just keep the lights down so the stretch marks aren’t as visible. Come on. I can see that you want to. You’re practically half out of it in your mind already. What’s stopping you?”
Lily grimaced but wanted to trust Grace and her friends. “I…my ex-husband…No. I have a horrible tattoo. I’m planning to have it removed. It was my ex-husband’s design. He tricked me—”
“The bastard!” LuAnn growled.
Lily fiddled with her shoulder strap nervously. “I didn’t know until it was too late. I was young and I worshipped him.”