The Goddess Who Sealed Him Is His Maid Now novel · Chapter 5 of 24

Chapter 5: The Hot Spring

The cranes circled the north wall three times and flew away.

Cangjue stood on the rampart and watched them go with his jaw tight and his hands curled.

Luan took one of those hands in hers.

"Come with me," she said. "Not to your room. To mine."

"The maids' court?"

"Under it."

She led him down through the laundry, past the copper vats and the drying racks.

At the end was a low door that no lord had ever bothered to open.

Behind it, steps cut in the rock went down into warm darkness.

Steam rolled up to meet them.

At the bottom lay a pool the size of a courtyard, black and still.

A stone pillar rose out of the middle of it, and a ledge of pale rock ran around the edge.

"The hot spring," she said. "The maids wash the sheets here. Nobody comes after the Hai bell."

"I didn't know it was here."

"You've lived above it for nine hundred years."

"I haven't been allowed to look."

She put down the lamp.

She untied her sash in the glow of it, shrugged out of her robe and let her shift fall, and stepped down into the water.

It came up to her ribs, hot and soft.

She turned in the water and held out her hand.

He took off his clothes without a word and followed her in.

The pool closed around his chest, and the gold thread glowed in the steam.

"Come here," she said.

He came.

She put her hands on his shoulders and kissed him, long and slow, with the heat wrapping around them both.

He kissed her back.

His hands found her waist, and then her breasts, and she let her head fall back while his mouth slid down her throat.

"Stop," she said.

He stopped at once.

His hands went still on her skin, and she smiled.

"That's not what I meant," she said. "I want to tie you first."

She waded to the stone pillar and drew the loose end of the thread out of the water.

"Wrists."

He lifted them, and she wound the thread twice around the pillar, high over his head, and knotted his wrists to it.

The gold shimmered.

She stepped back and looked at him.

He stood in the steaming black water with his arms raised and his broad chest bare, and his hard cock rose out of the surface.

"You look good like that," she said.

"You can't look away," he said.

"I can't."

She moved against him.

She wrapped her arms around his waist and pressed her whole soft body to his.

Her breasts lay against his ribs, and his cock pressed hot and heavy against her stomach.

He groaned.

"Luan."

"Not yet."

She kissed his chest.

She licked a slow line over his nipple and scraped it lightly with her teeth.

The thread on his wrists pulled taut as he arched.

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