He Fired His Secret Heir, Then Begged for His Love novel · Chapter 3 of 24

Chapter 3: The Bathroom Is Broken

Working late at the estate, Lu Chen is given the room next door and a broken bathroom, and the shared shower ends in a first kiss and a lock that works.

By eleven at night, Lu Chen had been at the estate for four hours.

He had eaten three bowls of Mrs. Su's soup and had not been asked one question about his past.

He did not know what to do with that.

He sat at the desk in Su Ye's study with the supplier files spread in neat rows.

Su Ye sat across from him with his chair tipped back on two legs.

"Page nine," Lu Chen said. "Read it."

"I'm reading it."

"Out loud."

Su Ye read page nine out loud, found a mistake in the delivery dates, and was so pleased with himself that he tipped the chair too far and sat down hard on the carpet.

Lu Chen did not laugh.

His mouth moved, though, at one corner, and Su Ye saw it.

At midnight the study door opened and Chairman Su stood in it in a dressing gown.

He looked at the two young men, the lamp, the papers and the cold tea.

"Point one," he said. "My son is awake after midnight, and working."

He closed the door.

Through it came the sound of Mrs. Su whispering, "Did you see? He's working!" and the Chairman saying, "Quietly."

Lu Chen packed the files into his briefcase.

"I should get back to the city," he said. "It's late, and there's a bus."

The door opened again.

Mrs. Su came in with a tray of fruit.

"Nonsense. The project isn't finished, and the files are all here. You'll stay until it is."

"Ma'am, I couldn't possibly."

"The room next to Ye's is made up. Blue sheets." She set the tray down. "Your bathroom is broken, I'm afraid. The pipe. The plumber is coming Thursday, so you'll share Ye's. The door between them is open."

Lu Chen turned to Su Ye.

Su Ye shook his head.

He had known nothing about this, which was true, and which would not have saved him from his mother in any case.

"Thursday," Mrs. Su repeated, and went out.

At half past twelve the east wing was dark, and the water was running in Su Ye's bathroom.

Su Ye stood under the shower with his forehead on the tile and thought about the grey suit.

He thought about a hand fixing his tie, and the knot pressed against his throat.

His body was thinking about it too, and he was hard, and annoyed about it.

He was reaching for the soap when the connecting door opened.

"I knocked," said Lu Chen, in the doorway, with a toothbrush in his hand. "On the bedroom door, I mean. Not this one."

The glass of the shower was fogged, but not enough.

Lu Chen stood where he was, and his eyes went down and came back up.

His glasses were fogging at the edges.

"You can go," Su Ye said. "I won't tell my mother."

"I know."

"You're still standing there."

"I know that too."

Lu Chen put the toothbrush down on the sink very carefully.

He took off his glasses and set them beside it.

Then he crossed the tiles in his shirt and trousers and pulled the shower door open.

Water hit his sleeves and chest.

He did not seem to notice.

"Tell me to leave," he said, low. "I'll leave."

"Don't," said Su Ye. "Don't leave."

Lu Chen kissed him.

It was clumsy for one second, glasses gone and noses in the way, and then it was not clumsy at all.

His mouth was soft and certain, and Su Ye made a sound into it that he would have denied in court.

Lu Chen's wet hand slid down his chest, over his stomach, and wrapped around his cock.

"Oh," Su Ye breathed. "Oh, that's good."

"You're so hard." Lu Chen's voice shook. "Is it for me?"

"Since Friday. Since you took my wrist."

Lu Chen stroked him slowly from the base to the tip, thumbing the slick head, and watched Su Ye's face as he did it.

Su Ye grabbed his soaked shirt in both fists and pulled.

"Take this off. I want to feel you."

Lu Chen tore the buttons open himself.

The shirt dropped to the floor, and his trousers followed.

Su Ye got a look at him, lean and pale and flushed to the collarbones, his cock thick and hard against his stomach.

"Come here," Su Ye said hoarsely, and reached for him.

He closed his hand around Lu Chen's cock, the way Lu Chen had closed his, and Lu Chen's head dropped against his shoulder with a groan.

"Fuck. Su Ye."

"There you are."

They moved together under the water, hands working, wet skin sliding, their breath loud in the small room.

Lu Chen's free hand held the back of Su Ye's neck.

Su Ye thrust into his fist and felt Lu Chen do the same, the two of them rocking, cock to cock where their hands met.

"Faster," Su Ye said. "Chen. Please."

"Look at me."

He looked.

Lu Chen's eyes were dark and wide, and not calm at all.

"I've wanted this since you ate the egg tart on that stage," Lu Chen said.

He tightened his grip, and Su Ye came with a shout, hot over both their hands.

Lu Chen followed a heartbeat later, shuddering, with his mouth open against Su Ye's jaw.

The shower ran on.

Neither of them moved for a long moment.

Then someone knocked on the bedroom door.

"Lu Chen, dear?" Mrs. Su called. "I put a new toothbrush on the sink in the bathroom! And tell Ye the plumber is coming Thursday!"

Lu Chen went rigid.

Su Ye clapped a hand over his own mouth, shaking.

"Thank you, ma'am," Lu Chen called, in a perfectly steady voice, and then mouthed at Su Ye: A new toothbrush?

The footsteps went away.

"She's been in here," Lu Chen whispered. "She went into the bathroom. Your mother knows the pipe is broken because she looked at it."

"She says the pipe's broken," said Su Ye. "I've never seen her look at a pipe in her life."

Lu Chen turned off the water, wrapped a towel around his waist, and went to the connecting door.

He tried the lock on his side, to see whether he could lock Su Ye out.

It turned with a smooth, silent click.

Then he tried the lock on Su Ye's side, which had never been used, and that turned as well.

Lu Chen looked at the lock for a long moment.

"Su Ye," he said. "This lock works perfectly."

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