"And here I thought it was more of a Show than a Tell," she gasps, making little effort to hide the tremor in her voice, though it's a different kind of trembling than before when his tongue darts out to torturously flick over her skin.

She sucks in a hiss of a breath; now he's deliberately doing what he's doing to tease her, to leave her dangling out before she pleads with him to reel her in. But she's not about to cave so easily, hooking a thumb underneath the elastic band at his waist and snapping it playfully against his hip.