“I am. I am ready,” she moaned, hoping it would be enough to satisfy him. She was almost insensible with need.
He grabbed her left leg and slid it up, bending it at the knee. Opening her and turning her slightly on her side. When his staff slid into her from behind, she gave a little yelp of surprise at the novel position.
“Are you all right?” he whispered in her ear, immediately halting his movement.
“Never better,” was all she managed, and he slid all the way in.
Their sounds of pleasure melded in a perfect symphony.
“You feel so good,Xiao Lù.”
“You as well,” she managed before her voice dissolved in a moan when he tongued her ear and slid his hand up her torso to pluck and torment her nipples.
“Kai…”
She needed the release. The sensations were too much. She was wound tight, so tight. At any moment, she was going to snap. And still his wonderful cock pumped into her, winding her tighter. His hand crept down between her legs. It found the bud where all sensation coalesced and pressed on it, sliding over it, rolling it in small circles.
“Is this what you want? What you need?”
“Yes,” she panted. “Right there. Oh God, it feels so good. Kai…”
“Come for me, my darling. Let me feel your pleasure exploding around my cock.”
How could she do anything else? The twin efforts of his finger on her bud and his cock stroking inside set off the explosion inside her as she muffled her cries in the pillow.
He followed her soon after, the deep throbbing of his flesh inside her letting her know he had stayed with her until the end.
CHAPTER 13
“Havewereceivedwordfrom Elizabeth?” Esther asked as soon as Wang strode into her room after going to the reception for the third time that day to inquire about their correspondence. When she had not received word from Elizabeth by the second night after she posted the letter, she had begun to fret. Now it was the third night, and still no word. She knew the letter must have reached Elizabeth by the next morning.
There was a ship departing from Liverpool to New York in four days, but Wang was waiting until she received word from Elizabeth to purchase the tickets. Esther wouldn’t leave English shores without her daughter’s blessing. If Elizabeth had the slightest objection, she would remain and attempt her rehabilitation by whatever other means they had available.
The letters to her banker and solicitor had been easy and quick to write. But writing this letter to Elizabeth had been harder than saying goodbye the first time. Before, she only intended to leavefor a few days. To a city that was just a few hours away by train. Her daughter could visit her easily, and she could go to London on a whim. Now she was saying goodbye for months. Going to another continent. How will her daughter receive the news? Would she feel abandoned? Betrayed? Hurt?
Although she was doing this for Elizabeth—to be able to better support her—she couldn’t escape the feeling that she was being a terrible mother. Had been for the past six years, since her accident. And now she was planning to leave for an indeterminate amount of time to achieve an uncertain outcome.
“Nothing yet. But it hasn’t been that long.”
“You can go to bed now, Margaret,” Esther said to her maid, and the woman left with a single nod.
“You are upset.” It wasn’t a question. Wang knew her enough by now.
Upset was an understatement. Her body felt tight with pain, mirroring the tension of her anxious mind.
“Elizabeth hasn’t replied. I don’t know if she is upset with me or if there’s something else going on. If we don’t receive a reply by tomorrow, we shall have to go back to London. I should have never left—”
“I’m sure everything is fine, Esther. We would have received notice from Colin or Abigail if something was amiss. Most likely she is busy with her Season’s entertainments and left the letter writing for later, not realizing you would fret.”
Esther shook her head. “I told her to write back at once. That I was waiting for her letter to make a decision. This can only mean that she doesn’t want me to go.”
“It could mean a host of other things. But we shall wait and see. If we miss this ship, there will be others. We won’t leave unless you are thoroughly reassured.”
Esther smiled at him. “Thank you. You are so rational and calm. Whereas I am a ball of nerves.”
She rubbed her neck and stretched her back, trying to ease the tension. But it didn’t help. More proof that she needed Wang’s expertise to get better. At his urging, she had been going to the baths every day with her maid. He said even if he couldn’t be there, she should do the exercises. But without his direction, she was obviously doing it wrong, because her back had not bothered her like this before. Or perhaps her discomfort was due to the tension she had felt these past three days.
“Is your back troubling you?” Wang asked with a frown.
