Reborn as the Villainess's Bodyguard, I Refused to Stop at Bodyguard novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Key

Haruka stepped into the cell and pulled the door shut behind her.

The lock clicked from the inside.

She stood with her back to the iron, key ring in her fist, and could not think of one sensible thing to say.

Seraphine solved it by holding out her wrists.

"These first," she said. "I would like to have my hands."

The cuffs came open on the third key.

They left two red rings on the pale skin, and Haruka bent and kissed each one before she could stop herself.

Seraphine's breath caught.

She spread her freed fingers and laid them on Haruka's face.

Then she slid them into the short dark hair at the nape of Haruka's neck.

"Take this off," she said, and tugged at the breastplate strap.

It took them a clumsy minute.

The steel came away and rang on the floor, and the dark-blue cloak followed, and then the tunic.

Seraphine made a low, pleased sound at the long muscle of Haruka's shoulders.

"You're warm," she said. "Everything in this place is cold, and you're warm."

"Come here."

Haruka lifted her as she had that first morning.

Seraphine's legs wrapped around her waist at once.

They kissed all the way to the cot, and nobody was counting seconds now.

The cot was narrow, with a straw mattress and one grey blanket.

Haruka lowered Seraphine onto it and knelt beside the frame, and for a moment simply looked.

The prison shift had slipped off one shoulder.

The copper hair lay across the blanket in long waves, and the lamplight from the corridor caught every freckle down the pale neck.

"You're staring again," Seraphine said.

"Yes."

"Don't stare. Do something."

"Tell me what you want first."

"Everything."

Seraphine's voice cracked and steadied.

"I want to be unlaced and I want to be kissed until I forget my own name."

"Then I want you to find out what I like."

"I want to tell you when you've found it, and I don't want anyone to stop us."

Haruka's heart did something painful and fine.

"Then lie back."

She undid the laces of the grey shift with slow, steady hands.

She peeled the rough linen down Seraphine's body until she lay completely naked on the blanket.

Seraphine arched into each touch before it had finished arriving, her pale skin flushing pink from her throat to her thighs.

The moment the cloth fell away her whole body shivered.

Haruka bent and kissed her throat, then her breastbone.

She cupped Seraphine's small breasts in her palms and took a peaked nipple into her mouth, sucking hard until Seraphine gasped and arched off the straw.

She worked her way lower, tracing each rib with her tongue and listening to Seraphine's breath go ragged above her as she nudged Seraphine's thighs wide apart.

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