My Online Lover Is the Rival I Fired novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: First Names
At ten past three in the morning Mo Chenyao pushed Yu back through the penthouse door with one hand flat on his chest.
He shut it with his heel.
"Don't speak," he said.
Yu didn't.
His cheek still bore the print of Mo's palm.
His shirt was open at the neck, his feet were bare, and his eyes were red.
He stood in the dark hall with his back against the wall and waited.
Mo looked at him for a long time.
"You've been sitting here since the dinner."
"Yes," said Yu.
"Doing what?"
"Reading," said Yu.
"Reading what?"
"Everything you ever wrote me," said Yu. "From the first bottle."
Mo's jaw moved.
He took off his jacket and dropped it on the marble, then the grey tie.
He began to unbutton his shirt with fingers that were nearly steady.
"I'm going to ask you to say some things," he said. "You are going to say them exactly. And then I'm going to decide."
"Tell me."
"Down."
Yu went down on his knees on the marble.
He did it at once, without a word, with his hands loose at his sides.
Mo's breath caught.
It was one thing to know a man would. It was another to watch him.
"Say, I'll be here until the tide comes back."
"I'll be here until the tide comes back," said Yu.
"Say it like you meant it."
"I meant it, Chenyao."
Something in Mo's face cracked.
He reached down, wound a hand into the black hair, and tipped Yu's head back, and Yu's throat moved under his thumb.
"Again. Say the one about the staying up."
"You're the only person who's ever stayed up for me on purpose." Yu's voice shook.
"That was yours. I read it a hundred times. I'd stayed up for you on purpose."
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