Chapter 10: Escape. Afraid of losing control.
Cheng Yang’s hands were trembling slightly.
Xu Xun’s skin was very fair, like a lustrous white pearl under the bath light.
“Yangyang, what are you doing?”
Xu Xun turned her head, gave Cheng Yang a sweet smile, and raised her long, dark eyebrows slightly. “Why haven’t you helped me take my clothes off yet?”
“Oh.”
Cheng Yang swallowed and stammered, “Okay, right away… right away.”
Xu Xun wasn’t wearing a bra. After her outer clothes were removed, she stood stark naked in front of Cheng Yang.
Completely undisguised.
Cheng Yang’s gaze was first drawn to the Omega’s strikingly white skin, and then to the eye-catching black tattoo on her left arm.
It was a vivid, lifelike black snake.
The black snake coiled around Xu Xun’s snow-white left arm, its pink tongue flicking out, its tail hooked around her wrist.
All of Cheng Yang’s previous amorous thoughts disintegrated the moment she saw this snake.
“Wifey, so you have a tattoo.”
“So cool.”
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but reach out, her fingertips slowly tracing the black snake tattoo on Xu Xun’s left arm.
She looked up in disbelief, her gaze moving up and down.
One moment on the snake tattoo, the next lingering on Xu Xun’s pure and gentle face.
Such a gentle and reserved person actually had such a large snake tattooed on her arm, and in such a striking black.
No wonder when Cheng Yang had seen Xu Xun acting or in news interviews before, she always wore long sleeves to events, no matter how hot the weather was.
At home, Cheng Yang had never noticed that the other woman had a tattoo.
Simply because they hadn’t been very intimate since her amnesia, let alone stripping naked in front of her.
Xu Xun saw Cheng Yang’s gaze frequently landing on her left arm. “Is it not good-looking?”
Cheng Yang shook her head.
With Xu Xun’s temperament and face, she found it really difficult to associate such a black snake tattoo with her.
“So cool.”
That was the sentence that followed.
“It must have hurt a lot.”
The corners of Xu Xun’s lips curved. “It was okay. I’m not very afraid of pain.”
“Not being afraid of pain and it not hurting are two different things.”
Cheng Yang’s brow furrowed tightly. She held Xu Xun’s wrist and murmured, “How did I not notice it before? It’s so obvious, yet I didn’t see it.”
“Then why did you get a snake tattooed?”
Cheng Yang asked.
She was now growing more and more curious about their past.
Xu Xun was taken aback for a moment, then explained, “To… cover a scar.”
“What?”
Cheng Yang was incredulous. She held Xu Xun’s left hand tightly and carefully examined the lines of the snake tattoo, finally discovering something.
There were several faint marks on Xu Xun’s arm, looking as if they had been made by a sharp blade.
After being covered by the black tattoo, the marks were not as obvious, but some could still be seen in the gaps between the coils.
As if possessed, Cheng Yang lowered her head and kissed the snake’s head on Xu Xun’s arm tattoo.
Xu Xun asked with a smile, “Do you like it a lot?”
Cheng Yang nodded. “I like it a lot. It’s very cool, but I wouldn’t dare to get one. I’m afraid of pain.”
Xu Xun’s gaze fell on Cheng Yang’s head. She placed her palm on the back of her neck, leaned in, and kissed her forehead.
“I was scared at first too. But then the pain became numb, and I felt like it didn’t hurt that much anymore.”
Cheng Yang asked out of the blue, “Why would you hurt yourself?”
Ever since seeing the scars on Xu Xun’s arm, Cheng Yang knew very well that they were scars left from self-harm.
After being weathered by time, the color had gradually faded, blending in with the skin.
But the proof of the blood that had once been shed would still remain.
Xu Xun smiled. “I didn’t. This was from broken glass.”
“Are you trying to fool me like a child?”
Cheng Yang stared straight at Xu Xun and called out, “A-Xun.”
Xu Xun lowered her eyes, the smile on her lips gradually freezing. “It really wasn’t.”
Cheng Yang didn’t press the matter further.
She had a head injury, but her brain wasn’t foolish.
She knew very well that this was Xu Xun’s secret, a pain that the other couldn’t put into words.
Even if she really wanted to know.
Cheng Yang changed the subject. “Alright, alright, hurry up and take a bath. Dr. Jian said that area can’t get wet. I’ll help you wash your body.”
“Okay.”
Xu Xun sat obediently on the small stool in the bathroom.
Cheng Yang stood behind her, wet a soft towel with water, and gently wiped her back, trying to avoid the gland on her nape.
After being moistened by the hot water, Xu Xun’s skin took on a faint pink hue, like a ripe peach after its skin has been peeled.
As if possessed, Cheng Yang lowered her head, her lips almost touching Xu Xun’s shoulder.
Her warm breath fanned across the skin. Xu Xun slowly turned her head and met Cheng Yang’s flustered and guilty eyes.
Cheng Yang pulled away at the last second before her lips made contact.
Jian Fan was right. It was indeed a very difficult thing to control one’s desires.
Especially for two young, vigorous, virile, and unclothed Alphas and Omegas sharing a room.
Out of Cheng Yang’s sight, the corners of Xu Xun’s lips curled up. She pretended not to have seen anything.
Cheng Yang rubbed her nose, quickly finished wiping Xu Xun’s back, and handed her the towel.
“Wifey, I think I’ll wait for you outside. I’m afraid I won’t be able to control myself… and do that to you…”
Xu Xun asked, feigning ignorance, “Do what?”
“Just that.”
Cheng Yang stammered, unable to say more, turned around, and fled.
Xu Xun watched her fleeing back and curved her lips in a helpless smile.
Outside the bathroom door, Cheng Yang gasped for breath.
For an Alpha, an Omega who was completely unguarded in front of her and occasionally said alluring things was the greatest temptation.
Cheng Yang bit her lower lip and sat on the bed, cupping her cheeks in her hands.
The tattoo on Xu Xun’s arm just now had been truly astonishing.
So she eagerly opened her phone and searched for “Xu Xun tattoo,” but found nothing.
But as a public figure, Xu Xun still needed to cover up her tattoos, especially one so large.
Cheng Yang sat in front of the computer. She had originally just wanted to search for things related to Xu Xun’s tattoo, but she ended up watching videos of her for half an hour.
When she came to her senses, she realized that Xu Xun had been in the bathroom for over half an hour.
It was just a quick wipe-down. Why did it take so long?
Cheng Yang couldn’t help but feel worried.
She closed the computer and walked to the bathroom door, bending her fingers to knock.
“Wifey, are you not done yet?”
There was no sound from inside.
Cheng Yang seemed to hear the faint sound of trickling water. She quickly said, “Wifey, are you taking a shower? The back of your neck can’t get wet!”
As soon as she finished speaking, the sound of water stopped.
Cheng Yang breathed a sigh of relief.
But she was still worried, not knowing what Xu Xun was doing inside.
She pressed her hand against the door panel, leaning against it to listen for any sounds from inside, afraid that something might happen to Xu Xun and she would need to break down the door in time.
But what Cheng Yang didn’t know was that, on the other side of the door, Xu Xun’s palm was pressed against hers.
The arm with the black snake tattoo hung limply at her side.
The veins on the back of Xu Xun’s left hand were raised, her fingertips pink, her fingers softened by the hot water.
Her palm was damp.
The marks her five fingers made on the door were mottled and crisscrossed. Droplets of warm, clear water slowly trickled down the frosted glass door.
Xu Xun’s swollen, crimson lips were slightly parted, the tip of her pink tongue resting against her teeth.
A series of soft, broken moans intermittently escaped from her throat.
“Yangyang.”
“My Yangyang.”
Her voice was low and suppressed, yet its tone was alluring and wanton.
What a pity.
Only she herself could hear it.
Hmm… me back!! Hopefully I haven’t forgotten much, lol.