He couldn't help but smile at Shannon's method and kissed him once more. "Yes, like that. I want to give you a proper massage, but I can't with your clothes being in the way," he explained, his hands never stopping their work on Shannon's chest muscles, attacking each and every spot of tension and rubbing them loose.

"We'll have to move for that, but I don't want to do that until I'm done with this part of you." At that, he stopped massaging with one hand to pat his chest affectionately. Eli wanted the excuse to be this close to him for as long as possible without the harness on and having to deal with Shannon's learning to become comfortable with it. "How does that sound to you?"