The CEO Bought the Villa With the Ghost Cultivator Inside novel · Chapter 2 of 24
Chapter 2: Hot Water
Bai Ling is ice cold, so Meiyin runs a bath, and in the steam they kiss and Meiyin's fingers give Bai Ling her first pleasure in six hundred years.
Meiyin carried Bai Ling up the stairs because Bai Ling's legs would not hold her.
She was lighter than she looked, and cold straight through the cloth.
In the master bathroom Meiyin turned both taps of the big stone tub as far as they would go.
Steam rose and fogged the bronze mirror's reflection in the doorway.
Bai Ling sat on the closed lid of the toilet with her arms wrapped around herself, shivering.
"What is that?" she said, looking at the taps.
"Hot water."
"From the wall?"
"From a boiler in the basement."
Bai Ling said nothing for a moment.
"Your age has strange comforts," she said finally, through her teeth.
"Get in the water," Meiyin said.
"I do not take orders from a stranger."
"Then take a suggestion from the person who has the only warm hands in the house."
Bai Ling's mouth twitched, almost a smile.
She stood, her fingers going to her sash.
The knot would not come loose, because her hands were shaking too hard.
Meiyin knelt in front of her and undid it herself.
The silver sash slid free.
The grey outer robe fell off Bai Ling's shoulders to the tile, then the white inner robe, then the thin shift under it.
Bai Ling stood in the steam with nothing on.
Her skin was white as porcelain, and her hips were full, her belly soft, her thighs thick and long.
Her breasts were small and heavy-tipped, the nipples drawn tight and dark from the cold.
Meiyin knew she was staring.
She did not stop.
"Do you always look at your guests this way?" Bai Ling asked.
Her voice was steady, but her chin had lifted, proud.
"I don't have guests," Meiyin said.
"I have never seen anyone like you in my life."
Color rose in Bai Ling's pale throat.
It was the first color Meiyin had seen on her.
"Get in," Meiyin said.
Bai Ling stepped over the rim and sank into the water with a sound that was half moan and half sob.
She slid down until the water reached her chin, eyes closed.
Meiyin sat on the edge of the tub and watched her breathe.
Color came into her cheeks and her lips, slowly.
"It is not enough," Bai Ling said, without opening her eyes.
"The water warms the skin only.
The cold is in the bone.
In the old days a cultivator in this state would be warmed by another's breath, another's body."
She opened her eyes and looked at Meiyin.
"I am not asking."
"I'm not offended," Meiyin said.
She took off her shirt.
She took off her trousers.
She stepped into the bath behind Bai Ling and slid down, one leg on either side, until Bai Ling's back was against her chest.
Bai Ling gasped.
Meiyin's bare breasts were against the long wet curve of her spine, her arms around the soft waist, her mouth just beside the cold ear.
"Better?" Meiyin said.
"Yes."
Bai Ling's hands came down over Meiyin's forearms.
She gripped them hard, and tilted her head back onto Meiyin's shoulder.
Her wet hair clung to both of them.
"Your heart is very loud," she said.
"It's going to get louder."
Meiyin slid her palm up over the soft belly to a breast.
She cupped it, weighed it, and felt the nipple harden against her palm.
Bai Ling made a small sound in her throat.
"Is this," she said, "what this age calls a greeting?"
"This is what I call it."
Meiyin turned Bai Ling's chin with two fingers and kissed her.
Bai Ling's mouth was cool at first, then not.
She kissed, lips parting, a stunned hum in her throat, her tongue meeting Meiyin's slowly.
She turned in the water to get closer, and the water sloshed over the edge of the tub onto the tile.
Neither of them looked at it.
Meiyin slid her hand down between Bai Ling's thighs.
Bai Ling's legs fell open at once.
Her pussy was hot, the only hot place on her, and slick in a way the bath water had nothing to do with.
Meiyin ran two fingers along the seam of her.
Bai Ling's whole body jerked.
"There," she said.
"Oh, there.
Please."
"Say it again."
"Please, Gu Meiyin."
"Just Meiyin."
"Please, Meiyin."
Meiyin worked her clit in slow circles with her thumb, and pushed two fingers inside her.
Bai Ling cried out and arched against her.
She was tight and burning.
She clenched around Meiyin's fingers.
Meiyin curled her fingers up and stroked, and Bai Ling's head fell back against her shoulder with her mouth open.
"Look at me," Meiyin said.
Bai Ling turned her head and looked.
Her eyes were black and wet and wide, with a faint silver light beginning to burn in them.
"Meiyin."
"I've got you."
Meiyin fucked her with two fingers, slowly at first, then faster, the heel of her hand grinding against the swollen little bud.
Bai Ling's breath came in broken gasps.
Her thighs shook.
Her nails dug crescents into Meiyin's forearm.
"I cannot," she said.
"I cannot, it is too much, it is too long since."
"Yes, you can.
Come on my hand."
Bai Ling's whole body locked.
She came with a hoarse, cracked cry that echoed off the stone walls, her pussy fluttering and clamping on Meiyin's fingers, hips jerking in the water.
The silver light flared in her eyes.
The bathwater, all of it, went hot as a spring in one instant, and every light in the room flared and dimmed.
Meiyin held her through the aftershocks.
Bai Ling shook and shook, and then she laughed.
It was a startled, cracked, wonderful laugh, like a door being opened in a room that had been shut for centuries.
"Again," she said, panting.
"Is that permitted?"
"Give me ten minutes," Meiyin said against her hair, "and I'll show you what else is permitted."
She meant it.
But Bai Ling went quiet in her arms, eyes on the dark window.
"Someone comes," she said.
Headlights slid across the ceiling.
Down at the stone gate a car door slammed.
A woman's voice called, small and anxious across the garden, "Ms. Gu?
Ms. Gu, the contracts you wanted tonight are here!"
Meiyin closed her eyes.
It was Tang Fei, her assistant, who never once in four years had been late.
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