He Betrayed the Heir, Then Returned to Save Him novel · Chapter 3 of 24

Chapter 3: Already Gone

Lu Chen gives Su Ye half the truth and they spend the night together for the first time; afterward Su Lu texts that Friday still holds.

Lu Chen could not tell him the truth, so he told him the part he could.

"I have a feeling about you," he said. "That I'm going to lose you."

Su Ye's eyebrows came together. "Lose me how?"

"I don't know. It's just there."

"That's a terrible thing to feel on the first day."

"I know."

Su Ye studied him a moment longer.

Then he took Lu Chen's hand off his shirt, turned it over, and kissed the center of the palm.

Lu Chen's whole arm went weak.

"Then don't lose me," Su Ye said. "Come upstairs. I'll make it very hard for you to."

They did not run, but they did not talk either.

The corridor of the guest wing was long and dark, with a pale strip of moonlight on the floor.

Su Ye shut the bedroom door behind them and pushed Lu Chen against it, gently, with one hand flat on his chest.

"I'm going to take this slowly," he said. "Tell me if I'm doing it wrong."

"You're not."

"I haven't done anything yet."

"Su Ye."

"Right. Yes." The grin came back, soft and lopsided. "Sorry. I talk when I'm nervous."

"You talk when you're not."

"That's true too."

He kissed Lu Chen again, and this time he did not hold back.

His mouth was hot and slow, and his tongue touched Lu Chen's, and Lu Chen heard himself make a low noise he did not recognize.

Su Ye's hands slid under the cream sweater.

They were warm, and they moved up Lu Chen's ribs, across his stomach, over his chest.

Lu Chen shivered, and Su Ye felt it.

"There," Su Ye murmured against his neck. "You like that. Good. Tell me what else you like."

"I don't know."

"Then we'll find out."

He got the sweater over Lu Chen's head and dropped it.

His mouth went to Lu Chen's collarbone, and then lower, and when it closed over a nipple Lu Chen's head hit the door with a thump.

"Careful," Su Ye said, laughing, and put a hand behind his skull.

"Don't stop."

"I wasn't going to."

He licked, and sucked, and used his teeth very lightly, until Lu Chen's breath came in short, rough pulls and his hands were fisted in the curls at Su Ye's neck.

Then Su Ye walked him back to the bed.

They fell onto it together.

Lu Chen's trousers came off, and Su Ye's shirt came off, and the lamp on the bedside table showed a long fair body with a faint tan line at the wrists.

The red cord lay dark against the skin of his left arm.

Su Ye knelt over him, looking down.

"God," he said. "You're beautiful. Do you know that? All of you."

Lu Chen looked away. "Don't."

"I will, though. I'm going to say it the whole time. Get used to it."

He wrapped a hand around Lu Chen's cock, hard and already wet at the tip.

Lu Chen's hips jerked up.

"That's it. Good. You're so hard for me." Su Ye stroked him, slow and firm, thumb working under the head. "Look how much you want it."

"Su Ye."

"Say it again."

"Su Ye."

"Mm. I like my name like that."

He bent and took Lu Chen into his mouth.

Heat closed around him, wet and tight, and Lu Chen's back arched off the bed.

He had never felt anything like it.

In his old life he had touched himself alone, thinking of this man, and hated himself afterward.

Now Su Ye's mouth moved up and down him, and his hand was on his thigh, holding him open.

Lu Chen's fingers dug into the sheets.

"Wait," he said hoarsely. "I'll come."

Su Ye pulled off with a wet sound.

"Not yet," he said. "I want you inside me. Or me inside you. Whichever you want. I brought stuff."

"You brought stuff."

"The ferry captain said always be prepared. I thought he meant for storms." Su Ye reached into the bedside drawer and took out a small bottle. "He might have meant this."

Lu Chen laughed.

It came out of him cracked and surprised, the first real laugh in what felt like years.

Su Ye stopped and looked at him with such open delight that Lu Chen's chest ached.

"There it is," Su Ye said softly. "I knew you had one."

"Me inside you," Lu Chen said.

"Yes?"

"I want to see your face."

Su Ye's smile went slow and dark.

"Yes," he said.

He spread lube over his own fingers and worked them into himself while Lu Chen watched, with his lips parted and his eyes half closed.

He did not stop talking.

"Look at you watching me. You like seeing me open myself up, don't you? Wait till it's you. Wait till it's your cock."

Lu Chen had never been so hard in his life.

When Su Ye finally slicked him up and sank down onto him, inch by inch, they both groaned.

He was hot and very tight.

Lu Chen gripped his hips. "Slow. I'll hurt you."

"You won't." Su Ye breathed out through his teeth. "Oh. Oh, that's good. You feel so good inside me."

He began to move.

At first he rocked, steady and easy, with his hands braced on Lu Chen's chest.

Then he lifted and dropped harder, and the sound of skin on skin filled the room.

"Look at me," Su Ye said. "There. Keep looking."

His cheeks were flushed and his curls stuck to his forehead.

He did not look away from Lu Chen once.

Lu Chen thrust up to meet him, and Su Ye's mouth fell open on a cry.

"Right there. Fuck. Do that again. Do it again, Lu Chen."

He did it again.

He did it until the bed knocked against the wall, until Su Ye's fingers dug into his chest and he was begging in a broken voice, "Harder, please, please, you're so good."

The praise went through Lu Chen, hot and fast.

No one had ever said that to him and meant it.

He rolled them over.

Su Ye landed on his back with a startled laugh, legs wrapped around Lu Chen's waist.

Lu Chen drove into him, deep and hard.

"Yes," Su Ye cried. "God, yes. Like that. Fuck me like that."

Lu Chen's head dipped to his throat, and he bit the skin there, and Su Ye shuddered.

Su Ye reached down and wrapped his own hand around his cock.

"I'm close," he panted. "Are you? Come with me."

Lu Chen was shaking.

His thrusts lost their rhythm, and Su Ye clenched around him, tight and hot, and said, "There, there, there."

Su Ye came first, spilling over his own fist with a long, low sound.

Lu Chen followed a heartbeat after, buried deep, with his forehead against Su Ye's shoulder and his whole body seizing.

For a long time neither of them said anything.

Su Ye's fingers were in his hair, stroking.

"Okay," Su Ye whispered at last. "That was a very good first day."

Lu Chen laughed again, shakily, into his neck.

Eventually Su Ye turned off the lamp and drew the blanket over them.

"You never answered my question," he said sleepily.

"I will. Someday."

"Promise?"

Lu Chen did not answer, because it was a promise he might not be allowed to keep.

Su Ye fell asleep with his arm across Lu Chen's chest.

Lu Chen lay in the dark for a long while, listening to him breathe.

His phone buzzed on the floor.

He reached down and read it with the brightness turned low.

It was from Su Lu.

Su Lu had written: Saw you go up together. Good boy. Friday still holds.

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