The Sect Leader's New Daughter Has Her Hands on My Hips novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Dawn of the Ninth

They did not sleep.

They sat on the bed in the grey dark, naked under one quilt, and watched Wanning's left wrist.

The thin red line of the oath mark lay across it.

"Does it hurt?" Yuxi asked.

"It itches." Wanning turned her arm in the lamplight. "It's been itching since the elder took the seal."

The window behind them paled by slow degrees.

A bird tried one note and stopped.

Then the light came over the eastern ridge, thin and gold, and slid across the floorboards to the bed.

It touched the quilt.

It touched Wanning's wrist.

The red line faded.

It did not burn away or flare.

It simply thinned, from red to pink to nothing, until the skin was brown and smooth and bare.

Wanning stared at it.

She rubbed the place with her thumb, and then again, harder.

"It's gone."

"Yes."

"I'm not his."

"You were never his."

Wanning looked up.

Her eyes were bright, and her crooked grin came slowly.

"Then who am I?"

Yuxi took the wrist and kissed the bare place.

"Mine," she said. "If you want to be."

"I want."

"And I'm yours."

"I know." Wanning cupped her face. "Good morning, Yuxi."

"Good morning."

"We aren't sisters."

"No."

"Then I can do this."

She kissed her.

It was slow, and soft, and in no hurry at all.

Wanning's lips moved against hers.

Yuxi sighed and opened for her, and the quilt slid to their waists.

The sun lay warm on their shoulders.

Wanning pulled back an inch.

"Lie down."

"Is that a command?"

"It's a request. Please."

Yuxi lay down.

Wanning stretched out beside her and pressed close, belly to hip, one leg thrown across Yuxi's thighs.

She kissed her mouth again, her throat, the hollow of her collarbone, and the small pale breast.

She took the nipple between her lips and drew on it gently, and Yuxi's hand tangled in her short hair.

"I love your hair," Yuxi whispered.

"It's a mess."

"I love it."

"You are ridiculous." Wanning smiled against her skin. "You've got three words for me and you pick that one."

"I have more."

"Say one."

"Mine."

Wanning's breath shook.

She slid her hand down Yuxi's belly, slow, and cupped her between the legs.

Yuxi was wet and warm and swollen from the night.

Wanning stroked her with the flat of two fingers, long gentle passes, up and down, without any hurry, and Yuxi's hips began to roll.

"Look at me."

Yuxi opened her eyes.

Wanning's face was a hand's breadth away, dark eyes soft, hair tumbled.

"This is the first morning of my life I haven't belonged to anyone but myself," Wanning said. "And I'm spending it on you."

Yuxi's throat closed.

Wanning slid one finger inside her.

It went in so easily, and so slowly, that Yuxi moaned.

A second finger joined it, curling, and the heel of her hand pressed against the clit with a gentle grinding rhythm.

"Oh," Yuxi breathed. "Oh, Wanning."

"Mm."

"That's... I..."

"I know. Let go."

Yuxi rolled onto her side, toward her, and hooked her leg over Wanning's hip.

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