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“Oh my God, you can swim?” Traynor blathered as Ashley took a few strokes through the cold, clear water of the mountain lake. She’d never imagined they’d want to use said lake when they booked the remote cabin, but, well, okay, there was a certain appeal, even standing, toes numbing, in the snow, watching as toned muscles rippled and flexed beneath bare skin. “Of course you can swim. You’re a Marine. It’s right there in the job title. You swim…beautifully.”
“Are you talking about me?” Ashley called, treading water from the center of the glacial pool. “Because I can feel my ears burning! Or maybe that’s just the hypothermia talking.”
“You are not making a convincing argument for me to join you! Also, my throat will literally close if I get that cold.” Sam wrapped her scarf tighter around her face.
“Okay, Plan B,” Ashley decided, closing the distance back to solid ground. “What say you,” she began, jamming her numb feet directly into her waiting boots, “we break in the cabin’s hot tub?”
“That,” Traynor agreed, “sounds much more my speed.” She wrapped the towel around Ashley’s naked, shivering body, pulling her into a quick kiss before letting her get back to drying her hair, just so it wouldn’t freeze during the quick sprint back to the cabin. “Go on, soldier,” she teased, slapping Ash’s bare, goose-pimpled backside. “I’ll gather your things and be right in.”
A few minutes later, Sam was rewarded with the vision of a nude, lounging Ashley Williams, sprawled and muscular like a barbarian queen in the roil of the hot tub. “Well! Hello!” More than just the heat sent redness to her cheeks. “I really hope they sanitize this between rentals,” she muttered, already unzipping her jacket despite her lament. Losing her socks, sweater, and top earned her a playful whistle from the tub - as if she needed further encouragement to speed her undressing along. A quick tug had her snow pants following after, and chilled fingertips fumbled to unfasten her bra and slip down her panties. (She hadn’t packed a swimsuit - didn’t figure she’d need one, with how far the cabin was from any other sentient life - and honestly, who wore their underwear in a hot tub?)
“That’s more like it,” Ash murmured as Sam’s petite form tucked in under her arm.
“I couldn’t agree more,” Sam added quietly, nuzzling gently against her lover as clear, bright sunshine poured in over them.