Four STARZ Members Came to Hide, Then Fell for the Cat Café Owner novel · Chapter 3 of 40

Chapter 3: Pastries at Dawn

Jisung comes to her door with pastries and asks to be touched for himself, not for comfort, and Missy takes him to bed; afterward she finds Hyunjin standing at her gate in the rain.

Missy still hadn't answered the email when the knocking started at half past six.

She opened the back door in her robe, with her coffee in one hand.

A cat sat on her foot.

Jisung stood on the step with a white paper bag held over his head against the rain.

His glasses were wet again, and his hair was plastered to his forehead.

"I walked into town," he said. "The bakery opens at six."

"You walked two miles in the rain."

"They gave me a lemon thing, two cinnamon things and a thing I can't pronounce."

"Jisung."

"I walked two miles in the rain for you," he said. "The pastry is a cover story."

She laughed before she could stop herself.

"Get in here."

He came in, and the cat on her foot got up to inspect him.

He put the bag on the table and took off his glasses to wipe them on his sweater.

Without them his eyes were bigger and darker, and he looked straight at her.

"I slept great," he said. "I always do. I could sleep on a bus."

"That's a gift."

"But I woke up at five, and the first thing I thought was your name."

"Honey."

"Let me say it." He set the glasses on the table. "Yesterday you held me because I was falling apart."

"I remember."

"I'm not falling apart now. I want you to touch me anyway."

Missy put her coffee down.

"You're twenty-six," she said. "You had the worst morning of your month, and a woman with a cat café was kind to you."

"That's not all it was."

"I don't want to be somebody's soft landing, Jisung."

"You're not a landing." His voice cracked, and he pushed on. "People have landed on me softly my whole life. This is different. Please."

She looked at him for a long moment.

His hands were held very still, and his pulse beat hard in his throat.

Then she stepped forward and laid her palm flat on his chest.

"Tell me what you want," she said.

"Your mouth," Jisung said. "First."

She kissed him.

He made a small helpless sound against her lips.

His whole body went loose and eager, and his hands tangled in the front of her robe.

She walked him backward until the kitchen chair hit the backs of his knees.

Then she pushed him down into it.

"Shirt off."

He dragged the sweater over his head so fast that the shirt under it came with it.

His chest was lean and wet and covered in black ink.

Script and flowers ran down his ribs and under the waistband of his jeans.

She put her mouth on the tattoo over his heart, and she felt it slam under her tongue.

"Fuck," he whispered. "Missy."

She slid down his body and knelt on the tile between his knees.

His jeans were tight over a hard line.

She undid the button and the zipper, and he laughed and moaned in the same breath.

When she pulled his cock out, it was thick and flushed and already wet at the tip.

"Look at you," she said. "Look at what you did, just walking in here."

"I didn't, I mean I did, I walked, oh."

She took him in her mouth, and he stopped talking.

He tasted warm and salty.

She took him deep, slowly, and drew back with her tongue flat along the underside.

Then she did it again, and his thighs began to shake against her shoulders.

"Missy, I'm going to. If you keep going."

She pulled off him with a wet sound and looked up.

"Not yet," she said. "You'll come when I say, baby."

His whole face went dark red.

"Okay," he breathed. "Okay. Yes."

She stood and undid the knot of her robe.

She let it slide off her shoulders.

Underneath she was bare, pale and soft and tattooed, with the lighthouse on her ribs and the moths up her arm.

She also had the belly she had hated for thirty years.

She felt her arm start to come up across it.

Jisung saw, and his eyes went hot and wide.

"Don't," he said. "Please don't hide it. You're the most beautiful thing I've ever seen."

He slid forward off the chair and got his hands on her hips.

He pressed his open mouth to the softest part of her stomach.

Her knees nearly went.

"Back in the chair," she said, shaky. "Now."

He sat.

She straddled his lap and took hold of the base of his cock.

Then she sank down on it, inch by inch, until her thighs were flush against his.

He was deep inside her and hot, and she felt every inch.

"Oh my god," Jisung said. "Oh my god, Missy."

"Hands on my hips. Don't move them."

She rode him slowly at first, her palms flat on his tattooed chest.

Then harder, as he started to thrust up into her to meet it.

The chair legs knocked on the tile.

"You're so wet," he said. "Fuck, you feel so good. You're so tight."

"Say it again."

"You feel so good."

"Good boy."

He groaned out loud, and she felt his cock jump inside her.

She reached between them and rubbed her clit in fast circles.

Her mouth was against his ear, and he babbled her name into her neck.

"Come for me," she said. "Now, baby. Now."

He came with a shout, his hips driving up and his fingers digging into her flesh.

She felt him spill hot inside her, and that was what tipped her over.

She came clenching around him, with her forehead on his shoulder.

They stayed like that for a long time, breathing together.

He kissed her collarbone, her throat, her jaw.

"That wasn't comfort," he mumbled.

"No," Missy said. "That wasn't."

At seven he put on his dry shirt, and she handed him a pastry for the walk.

He kissed her at the door, a slow one this time.

She stood in the doorway in her robe and watched him go down the path.

Then she looked past him at the gate.

Hyunjin stood there in the rain, soaked to the skin, with a sketchbook against his chest.

He had a clear view of the kitchen window.

He didn't look away when she saw him.

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