“What are you doing!?” her voice was loud, un-cheerful.
Kai blinked at her and remarked, “The water’s hot.”
Yuri’s eyes looked irritated and she said no more. That was when his eyes landed on the tiny red marks on her shoulders where he must have held her last night. Sehun glanced at her averted eyes and wondered if she was trying to use the bath as a method to relieve herself of the pain.
He reached a hand forward to touch her shoulders but Yuri swatted his hand away. “Does it hurt?”
“Forget it.” She muttered.
She looked away again but she didn’t try to move away. He couldn’t help but keep his eyes settled on her. Suddenly he felt persistent about knowing what her thoughts were.
“Do you hate me?”
Yuri lowered her gaze but she didn’t look at him. Kai was suddenly critically sure that was going to say what he’d worried about. That she wanted to leave and that she’d only inclined to sleeping with him because her body had asked for it. But why did it matter so much? Why did he want her to have feelings for him when he didn’t have any for her? Just what was the limit to his selfishness?
“Does that really matter? If I hate you, you’re going to hate me too. Is that what this is?” she looked at him with stern eyes that read of no other emotion but contradiction. “If you keep the ring, you want me to keep it too so you won’t look like a one-sided idiot? You wanted to confirm if the sexual attraction between us was just a joke or not. You got it, so why are you asking me these dumb questions?”
His eyes fluttered unsure whether he should be taken aback by her words or not. Was she belittling him? Kai thought he heard her groan with annoyance before she readied to get up but he locked his legs around her to keep her grounded.
“So,” he said, “will you take the ring off, or not?”
Again, she stared at him without word. After a quiet second, Yuri leaned forward to kiss him with her hands climbing around his sides. Replying at once he hungrily kissed her moving from her lips to her face then to her pulse where she rolled her head to the side to let him get better access. Sleekly crawling his hands up her arm he didn’t stop until he rested them at the back of her neck and after he finished with the mark on her neck. After a last heated kiss on her lips he dug his face into her neck and closed his eyes as if to preserve the moment.