Tess eyed the steps and the roiling waters of the lake. When she met my gaze, she said, “Really, we’re going swimming here? What’s so special about this place?”
I grinned. “That’s the surprise.”
She frowned and looked at the pristine water that lapped against the stones. “So, we’re skinny dipping?”
I shrugged. “That’s up to you. The water won’t hurt our leathers, but you know that much water is going to dampen our magic. It’s not truly flowing, but it’s turbulent enough to have a similar effect.”
“Okay then,” Tess said as she unzipped her jacket.
We undressed quickly and put our underwear and socks inside the protection of our leathers. It would keep the material from getting any wetter while we swam.
I finished first and stepped down to the first stone leading into the water. Turning, I found Tess close, her breasts at my eye level. Her nipples were rigid and I resisted the temptation to kiss one. I met her gaze. “Cold?”
She grinned. “Not even, we just haven’t been skinny dipping before. I thought maybe you had plans.”
I smiled broadly, grabbed her by her hips, and pulled her down next to me. “You have a one track mind.”
She rubbed her flesh against mine. “Like you don’t.”
I felt my smile narrow and I focused energy into my muscles and lifted her again.
Tess returned my smile and tilted her face toward me for a kiss.
I tossed her toward the lake’s surface.
She squealed in surprise, but then she activated her shield tat and it snapped into a sphere around her before she hit the surface of the water. For a few moments, she spun around inside her shield, but then she got her feet under her and faced me.
Tess cocked her head and eyed me quizzically. I leapt from my perch and hit the water a few feet from her. As I passed, I gave her shield a shove of power and it rolled across the surface of the lake away from me. I sank into the cold water until my toes touched bottom, then bobbed back to the surface. Shaking my head and running a palm across my eyes to clear the water, I looked for Tess. She was a few feet away, still studying me.
“Aren’t you coming in? The water’s fine,” I said while treading water.
Tess knelt inside her sphere of energy and then leapt upwards toward me. Her shield popped out of existence and she came down hands first on my head. Her weight pushed me back down and I floundered for a moment before my feet touched the bottom again. I pushed off while she wrapped her legs around my torso and her arms about my neck.
We broke the surface and I gasped for air. I had trouble keeping both of us afloat and triggered my levitation tat. It glowed feebly beneath the surface, but I was able to put enough power into it to keep both our heads above water.
Tess was shaking the water from her face and laughing.
“Dunking your mentor will get you a spanking,” I said, trying to sound serious.
She stopped laughing and eyed me with a coquettish smile. “You would spank me?”
“Of course. I have to maintain discipline,” I said gruffly.
Her lips reached mine, parted, and our tongues danced.
For the next few minutes, I had trouble remembering why I’d brought her there. I maneuvered us to slightly shallower water and our little kiss became foreplay and then so much more. As I rose to the occasion, she settled down onto me, embracing me in her warmth.
Later, both of us spent, I stood in the chest deep water with Tess still clinging to me. Her legs were wrapped tightly around me and her lips were buried against the side of my neck. We were both panting and shivering, but not from the cold water.
“Well,” she gasped. “That was something. If I’d known that was what you were planning, I’d have been more in a hurry to get moving this morning.”
I chuckled. “I hadn’t planned that at all. We’re here for other things entirely.”
Tess leaned back so she could stare into my eyes. An eyebrow dipped and she said, “Really? This was just spontaneous?”
“It seems like it’s always spontaneous with you, Tess.”
She grinned. “And there I thought you brought me here just to ravish me.”
She kissed me again and I participated full heartedly for a minute.
When she broke it off, I lifted her off me and set her on her feet in front of me. The undulating surface of the lake couldn’t make her breasts actually bob up and down, but it did make her nipples appear and disappear beneath its surface. It was quite distracting.
I snapped out of my appreciation of her hypnotic beauty and said, “Hold still a moment.”
I surface dove into the water, swimming deeper looking for a tell-tell glint on the lake’s floor. Spotting what I sought, I grasped one nugget the size of my fist and bobbed back to the surface. I came up about twenty feet from Tess. She was eyeing me curiously, as I swam back to her.
When I was standing in front of her again, I said, “Hold out your hand.”
Her head cocked slightly, but then she raised her right hand out of the water. I set my shiny bauble in her palm and waited.
Tess’s eyes widened as she brought my gift toward her face to study it. “Is this real?”
“As real as it gets.”
“Holy cow! This must weigh five pounds,” Tess said hefting the gold nugget in her hand.
“About that,” I said.
“And it was just lying there?”
“Yep, it’s a little larger than average.”
