“I can.”
Cal smiled and motioned for Lia to sit on his lap, and she loosely draped her hands over his shoulders and looked at him as if to say, “now what?”
“Come here,” he said, touching her chin with his thumb and index finger to get her lips to open before he slid his mouth against hers in a soft morning kiss. Lia’s hesitation from their first night together seemed like a forgotten dream as she let this new dream become reality, pressing into the kiss. She loved that she had this—being able to touch him, to let him kiss her. Thiswas something she’d chosen, something she’d allowed herself to have. That it was with Cal, that it might have always been Cal in this universe, well, that made it even better.
His hand ran up and down her back, his smile soft but his gaze warm as their lips parted.
He drew her in for a kiss, and Lia let herself sink into it completely. Her fingers laced in his hair while his hands moved higher up her back, then around her front to brush his hand over her breast, flick over her nipple. Lia’s pambahay was old and ratty enough that she felt the heat of his fingers on her skin, like she wasn’t wearing anything at all.
“Remember when you said we can do this more than once?” he asked, his hand sliding between her legs, his kiss swallowing the moan on Lia’s lips. She jerked her hips against his gentle fingers, wanting more.
“Well, one of us is busy recording an album. Finding a new agency for his band.”
“And one of us went to Gyeongju.”
“On your recommendation! Is this because you came without warning the first time?” She asked. One of Cal’s fingers brushed the front of her panties and she shuddered, gripping him tighter at the unexpected reaction.
“Maybe. Or maybe I can’t have enough of you,” he said, and Lia winced when his fingers attempted to slide inside her. “What is it?”
“Dry.” Her nose was still wrinkled as Cal eased his fingers away. “Sorry.”
“Don’t apologize.” He kissed her lips, trailing them across her cheek, behind her ear, down to her neck. “That’s what lube is for.”
He tugged down the neck of Lia’s pambahay and sucked at the skin revealed. He declared his intentions to mark a pathdown her body like a pirate on a mission, and Lia didn’t much mind being his willing island.
Her experience with these kinds of sexual encounters was that guys tended to lose all sexual appeal to her when they tried to go down on her—they just didn’t seem to enjoy it much. But Cal licked her up and down with enthusiasm and gusto, sucking at her clit as his fingers slid inside her cunt.
“Cal, someone could walk in?—“
“I told Siwan to go ahead with them to the studio. Do not disturb.”
“So this is aplannedseduction.” Lia tried not to giggle as she recalled Cal’s quick trip to his bedroom, his face gleeful as he came back with another bottle of lube—strawberry flavor, which he seemed proud of. He seemed to welcome the rise of Lia’s hips against his face, rewarding the action with a longer suck, by lapping up the wetness that leaked.
“Baby, you’re so wet for me,” Cal said, his fingers making a satisfying squelching noise as he pumped them into her. “And strawberry flavored.”
Lia’s torso shuddered as it clenched involuntarily with laughter. “That’s the lube!”
“Just the lube?”
“Cal, please don’t make me argue with you about lube while you’re—fuck!”
“Mmmm. Lia. You’re going to come like this?”
“Is that…a question? Or a challenge?” Lia asked between labored breaths, and Cal grinned that devilish smile of his as he tugged her by hooking his hands under her thighs, took a playful little bite of the flesh of her inner thigh, before he fully expounded on the definition of “eating her out.”
Sex between them was all about just feeling good, but in the back of Lia’s mind, a secret part that she didn’t examine, she knew it wouldn’t feel like this with anyone else.
“I forgot how good I was at that,” Cal said, his mouth wet and his breathing labored, and Lia was in danger. Girl, so in danger.
“No argument from me,” Lia managed to say, still feeling a little loopy from her orgasm. “The fanfic girls are missing out.”
“Maybe let’s cut the fanfic talk.” Cal kissed her lips, and a shudder of lust rocked Lia’s body like an aftershock when she tasted herself on his lips. Well. Herself and strawberry. Who knew a casual affair would make her feel so sexy? Desirable and beautiful? “I want to seem much more mysterious than I am.”
“Consider my lips sealed,” she agreed with a nod, making him smile. “Kkeut.
“I’m taking you to lunch,” said the guy with three meetings and lessons and whatever else lined up for the day. “I’ve been saving this place for us.”
The place,as it turned out, was this lovely little neighborhood called Mangwon, slightly farther from Hongdae, and Cal’s favorite neighborhood in the city. They spent their mid-morning waiting for the gelato store to open at eleven, then walked around. They had lunch at an Italian restaurant that looked like a guy’s living room. The shop owner was the chef and waiter, and served them Ligurian pesto and roast pork.
