Chapter 100: Embers

The fire had burned down to red embers and the laughter had thinned into small, tired breaths.

Feimei had left the island to read in the city a while ago while the other girls remained in the island with Kian.

Jia was the next to be tireded out, yawning into her fist and dragging a blanket, she limped toward the hut. Mia followed, mumbling something:

"I’m going to my room, I don’t want to sleep here. The bedroom still needs some work, Kian, let’s add a real bed and such tomorrow."

Kian nodded.

Jiao Yin curled up on a mat beside the coop, already half asleep before her head touched the cloth.

"Hey, Jiao Yin, want me to drop you in the room?" Kian asked.

"No, no. I like listening to the distant sea. It’s nice."

Kian made his rounds. He helped the sleepy Mia back into her own room in the city, asked if he could enjoy her ’presence’ for a while, and came back out of the room in ten minutes.

He had to promise he would come back before she let him go.

Then, he went into the hut and found Jia hugging a pillow and waiting for something. Her lips were pouty.

She took more than ten minutes, but after they were done, she stretched and yawned.

"I am heading back to sleep with Mia, come back and hug me. Or my sleep won’t be good."

She vanished.

From outside the hut, Xiao Cui watched the entire scene without feeling much sleepiness. In fact, she enjoyed her life so much and looked forward to morning so much, that she couldn’t sleep at the moment.

Jiao Yin was taken much closer to the beach by Kian until she could hear the ocean close by. There, she spread her cheeks for him and he delivered.

She was the one who could take the most shots anyway.

So it took quite a while before, refreshed, Kian dropped Jiao Yin back in the hut.

She slept like a baby in mere minutes.

Finally done, he stretched and walked out to find Xiao Cui warming her hands with the last remaining embers.

"Hey, only you are the one remaining awake."

Kian dropped down beside Xiao Cui, took her hand from the embers, and kissed the inside of her wrist. "You stayed awake because you knew I’d come for you."

Xiao Cui blushed. "I was just... not sleepy."

He laughed low, grabbed her hips, and bent her over the still-warm stone. What followed was quick and too hungry for a cute girl like Xiao Cui to handle easily—her fingernails left lines in the sand, her whines muffled against her own arm, and soon enough, she begged for him to stop.

So, unable to see her like that, he became gentle and from the way she came so much, she clearly liked it.

He finished with one last deep thrust and painted her lower back while the ocean crashed behind them.

Then he helped her up on shaking legs.

"Why couldn’t you be gentle from the start? It was so scary."

"Sorry, milady. I was just messing around with Jiao Yin and she has it rough all the time, so by habit I followed that with you. Come. The tub’s been waiting."

"Wow, I could never. Be gentle with me all the time or I am running away next time you try to strip me naked. Okay?"

"Okay, little Cui. Now come on, let’s bath."

The wooden tub sat behind the hut, big enough for two. Kian lowered Xiao Cui into it, and her sigh turned to steam in the cool night air.

"Want me to help you bath, milady?"

"Eh, you will?"

Kian was only glad to do that.

She leaned back against the edge, eyes half-closed, too spent to do more than breathe.

He knelt beside the tub and wet a cloth, then started at her shoulders. His hands moved slow and intentional—across her collarbones, down her arms, over the curve of each breast (especially playing with the nipples) and the plane of her stomach.

"You really are playing whenever you get a chance," she complained, but did not move away.

By the time he reached her hips, she was squirming in the water.

"Spread a little," he said.

Xiao Cui’s face went a new shade of red, but she did. Her thighs opened under the water, and Kian dipped his hand between them, working the cloth over her entrance with patient circles.

She gasped and grabbed his wrist, not to stop him, just to hold on.

"Relax. I have to make sure every part of you is clean. I came a lot inside, so let me clean it up."

"Hm..."

He dropped the cloth, slid two fingers inside her, and curled them slowly. She hummed out, thighs clamping around his hand.

He was surprised. "So tight even after all that. You’re going to make me want another round."

"Shut up!" Xiao Cui buried her face against his shoulder, too overcome to answer.

But she didn’t pull away, her stomach full of butterflies as she let him wash her, inside and out, until the water went lukewarm and her body melted under his hands.

"Okay, done washing now let me dry you."

He pulled her up from the water, one hand steady under her elbow, and set her on the folded towel beside the tub.

"I’m not a kid, I can wash myself..." she muttered, but she clearly wanted to be spoiled more.

Kian smiled.

"Stand still. I need to inspect my work to see you are clean." He took a dry cloth and started at her hair, drying her.

She was blonde now. The blonde strands clung to her neck and shoulders, darker at the ends from the bath. He worked through them slowly, squeezing the water out, then lifted a lock to his nose and sniffed it once: she smelled like real perfume naturally.

Such a good physique!

Xiao Cui watched him with an amused expression.

Drying her shoulder, he reached her chest.

He cupped her with the towel first, patting and drying as if he were polishing something delicate.

She giggled.

Then he let the towel drop and used his bare hands to cup them. "Wow, they are nice."

He admired her openly, thumbing over her nipples until they tightened, then bent and drew one into his mouth.

She shivered but didn’t stop him. "You play too much!"

"There is no too much to play."

"Hmm. That’s true..."

He pulled back, gave the other the same slow attention, and finally picked up the towel again.

"Clean here," he murmured. "Now next part."

He crouched lower and pressed his ears to her belly button. "Hello there, how are you? Oh, you’re fine? Yeah. You took a lot tonight. I approve."

Xiao Cui giggled, the sound rising high and breathless. He dried her stomach with the towel, then moved down until he was kneeling in front of her.

"You really treat me like a kid, I love it."

"Me too. Now the important part." He spread her thighs just enough and looked up at her. "Hm, this place looks clean. But is it?"

"Yes?"

He slid one finger inside her, testing, then drew it out and nodded. He brought the finger to his nose, sniffed deliberately, and nodded again.

Xiao Cui’s eyes widened, face blushing. "Kian, what are—"

He didn’t answer. He leaned in, replaced his finger with his tongue, and pushed inside her.

She sucked in a breath and her hand fisted hard. He worked his tongue slowly, in and out, until he pulled back and looked up at her stunned face.

"Hnng!"

She came hard.

He stayed there, his mouth open just beneath her, and she came again and again with a high, shaking moan.

He swallowed everything, then sat back on his heels and picked up the towel. He dried her carefully, from thighs to ankle, and nodded once.

"Yeah. You are clean."

Xiao Cui stared at him for one long second, then shoved him away and tried to run toward the hut, bare feet slapping the sand.

Only for her hand to be caught and get pulled back into his arms.

Kian caught her easily, spun her back, and let the towel fall from his hand. He tilted her chin up with one finger. "Where do you think you’re running, little Cui? I just cleaned you. Don’t make me dirty you again."

Xiao Cui’s lips parted, but no words came. Her chest rose and fell against his, and her fingers curled into the front of his robe. The blush went from her cheeks to her ears.

He leaned in, his mouth hovering over hers. "Are you not going to help me bath?"

She huffed, but her eyes stayed on his mouth. "Stop teasing me, Kian."

He leaned down and kissed her, she immediately reciprocated.

They kissed for a long while.

Then, Kian laughed into the kiss, then broke it just enough to speak against her lips.

"Hey, beautiful. Want to go out on a date with me in the city? Just us."

Xiao Cui’s whole face lit up. "Yes. Right now?"

"Yes."

She was already nodding, toes curling in the sand.