Chapter 172

The water hit him on the back of the neck and ran down the gulley between his shoulder blades, snaking a trail down his spine and travelling over the various inked pictures and symbols that patterned his skin. With his hands pressed against the communal shower wall, he remained like that for a few moments, letting the spray massage the tension out of his body and all the while I stood and watched, feeling like a voyeur and yet unable to tear my eyes away from him. My gaze touched every inch of him that I could see, coveting his broad shoulders down to the small of his back, the tail of the dragon that curled around his hip and the way the water trickled down his muscular thighs. The noise of the shower echoed off the walls and just when I thought he had no idea that I was even there and was considering leaving before he spotted me, Harper turned around, and as brazen as ever, gave me a full frontal shot framed by an arrogant grin. "Are you going to just stand there or are you going to