She guided, helping him enter her and teaching him how to move his hips with her hands. He kept the rhythm that she gave him.
And every time Rin looked up, there was the emperor nodding, his father smiling, and his uncle grinning.
It ended quickly.
Barely a minute later, Rin finished inside her. Yet, it was the most intense physical sensation of his life.
The emperor nodded. “You did good.”
His uncle smiled and clapped.
His father stood and walked over to the bed with tears of pride in his eyes. “You have brought honor to our bloodline.”
Rin pulled his wet cock out of her and panted. “Thank you, Father.”
“I'm very proud of you, son.” Then he reached down and pulled the bag off. “And your mother is proud too.”
Rin stared in horror as his mother—the woman whose face had been under the black bag—looked up at him from the bed. Her face was flushed and she was still breathing hard. She smiled. “Yes, son. You did an amazing job.”
Rin vomited on the bed.
The emperor recoiled. “What is he doing?”
The uncle looked away in disgust.
Rin ran out of the room, dressed fast, and escaped the palace. An hour later, he was on my balcony in the middle of the night.
And every woman since. . .got the silk bag. Because the last time a bag came off a woman's face during sex, it was his mother underneath.
The bag wasn't a preference.
It was a scar shaped in silk and he didn’t know how to heal it.
I looked at him now with all his royalty, power, and poison.
Tonight, what I saw underneath. . .was that same terrified eighteen-year-old boy on my railing.
I let out a long breath. “You may have to tell her why the bag is important.”
"Besides those that were there and you. . .I'll never tell anyone else.”
“Rin—”
“I'll die with that truth."
"Then you may need to let her go."
"I don't want to."
“She’s my Tiger’s stylist, and if my Tiger asks me to intervene I will.”
“Does Nyomi have to know?”
“I can only buy you a few days time, but once she realizes that Deja didn’t return to New York. . .”
“She's different from any woman I've ever met."
"Then use that."
