Chapter 23 - Nightly Adventures

(The following chapter contains scenes not for children. If content of this kind offends you, please skip the chapter after the Prince carries Ling to his bedroom.)

I waited until the house went completely quiet before standing up and walking to the door.

I couldn’t feel anyone’s presence, but that didn’t mean there could be anyone keeping watch beyond the limit of my perception. I remained unmoving for a full minute, concentrating on my senses until I could pinpoint every single guard and servant on the grounds. I took my time to learn their patterns, and when I was sure that I wouldn’t be caught, I cautiously stepped outside the room. Opening and closing the door in complete silence.

I went first to see Fa Min, who was snoring loudly. I knelt beside his bed while I entered the meditative state I had used to perceive the poison. Once I felt ready, I transferred my awareness to Min’s body, and sure enough, found the same substance polluting his Chi.

I frowned and, with a burst of chi, erased the substance from his system.

While I had done everything in complete silence, I hadn’t taken in account the fact that Min was an accomplished Martial artist of his own, and he of course felt a strange and powerful presence meddling with his energy.

The moment I opened my eyes, a kick was already on its way to my face.

I reacted with inhuman speed and stopped his kick with a hand while I placed a single finger over his lips.

“Peace, Fa Min. Sorry to wake you.”

“Shen Mu?” He sounded slightly groggy, but I knew better than to believe it. “What is going on?”

“I wanted to see if you were all right. I will tell you more tomorrow.”

He accepted my reasoning and went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, I repeated the process of memorizing the guard’s movements before leaving my friend’s room to go to Ling’s bedchamber.

Her room was smaller, but it was also closer to mine so that all I had to do was return to my room and use the inner door to get to hers.

She was turning on her sleep, and there was sweat on her brow.

Had they placed more poison in her food?

I concentrated on my meditation and then entered her body with my perception. I was both relieved and horrified. She had been given another substance on top of the poison, but since she was smaller and her constitution wasn’t forged by years of hard training, the poison was doing more damage.

Blood boiled on my veins, but I forced myself to remain calm and tend to her needs before seeking revenge.

Gently but meticulously, I cleansed her body of the poison, but the other substance had already been assimilated and would have to be purged in a physical way.

Hearing her moaning brought me to my senses and gave me the clue I needed to figure out what had been the other substance.

‘They wouldn’t have given her an aphrodisiac if they weren’t planning on taking advantage of its effects…’ I reasoned. Meaning that at some point during the night, someone would come into her room to ‘take care’ of the issue. The thought that anyone would take advantage of my Ling nearly broke my will to wait and learn more about the culprits.

Ling was panting, tossing and turning on the bed, and letting out sensuous moans that tore at my heart and made a certain part of my anatomy incredibly hard.

“Ling” I whispered, wiping the sweat on her forehead with my hand. She moaned louder at the contact.

I wasn’t going to leave her at the mercy of whomever. Carefully, I lifted her from the bed and carried her princess style to my own bed and, in the drug-induced fever, her arm circled my neck, and her lips began sucking on it, making it very hard for me to not want her too. But before I did anything, I had to make sure we were secure.

I called on the six elements to create an alarm and spiritual barrier around my room. Now I would be aware of everything and everyone that got closer than three feet from the door. Besides, I had locked the door after coming back in, so they would have to come through Ling’s chambers.

Her hands moved feverishly over my clothes, looking for purchase so that she could remove them, while her lips kissed the full length of my neck.

“Ling” I bit my lip, trying to concentrate on the finishing touches of our protection, but she was making it very hard for me.

One of her hands found her way under my shirt and she pulled me toward her with a strength born of desperation

“Mmm!” she moaned into my neck “Master, you taste delicious.”

Was this another effect of the drug or was she truly seeing me?

Ignoring her wasn’t helping, so I tried distracting her instead.

Placing a hand behind her neck, I pulled her lips to mine and drowned her moans in my mouth.

She kissed me hungrily but inexpertly. Not that my current body had any experience, but the soul inside had had his fun in a society where sex was easier than love.

I lost myself in her sensuous lips, while our hands roamed freely. My free one uncovered the crown of her perky breasts and played with them, making her moan harder while her expert hands made quick work of the clothes she had helped to put on me that morning and, by the time we stopped to breathe, she had complete access to my front.

Her calloused yet soft hands took hold of my lower self, and its heat cleared the cloud thrown over her mind by the drug for a moment.

“M-Master? Am-am I dreaming again?”

Her mermaid voice was full of longing and pain. And I cursed the enemies that had caused her this suffering.

I knelt beside her to undress her and took a sweet moment to gaze longingly at the body that had given me many wet dreams over the years. I would have liked to love her properly at our own pace, but I feared the after-effects of the drug. And I knew only one way of removing it.

Cursing my lack of knowledge, I laid beside her. Pulling her into my arms, to where she came willingly. I kissed and sucked at her neck, shoulders, and breasts while my hand caressed her flat abdomen, her soft pubes and finally came to rest over her mound which was overflowing with fluid and hotter than what I ever thought possible.

She moaned louder, and her hips moved on their own accord against my hand.

“M-Master, please…!”

“Ling,” I whispered into her lips. Her heat was affecting me, and things were no longer absolutely clear. “You have no idea how much I’ve wanted you.”

“Yes!” she moaned, biting her lip when my hand uncovered the little bud of nerves hidden within her folds. “Want me more, master. Want me as I want you.”

Her hands were feverishly pumping me, and her breath came out as elaborated gasps while I caressed and explored her folds and clitoris. Her nerves were made so sensitive by the drug that I feared hurting her if I was too forceful or repetitive, but her own hips were humping my hand like an animal until her whole body spasmed and I had to drown her delicious moan with my mouth before she woke the whole household.

When she came down from her orgasm, I thought she would be more herself, but my estimation on the effect of the drug was inaccurate. As soon as she came down from her orgasm, she assaulted me with her lips, hands and body.

With a strength that defied her lithe frame, she pulled me on top of her, anchoring her legs around my waist. “Master!” she moaned, sucking at my neck and lightly biting my chin “I want you.”

Even if I had the presence of mind to refuse her, the way her body fit underneath me and the way her eyes shone proved too much. I doubted anyone but Buddha himself would have been able to resist her in our current situation.

I kissed her while I tossed away my remaining clothes and began teasing her folds with my member. I didn’t know if she was a virgin or not, but I refused to take her like an animal.

She bit her lip watching me mount her. “Yes, make me yours Master.”

I pushed inside her little by little, loving how incredibly wet and tight her canal was until I reached a certain obstacle, which made me stop altogether.

“No, don’t’ stop.” She begged, moving her hips and trying to impale herself on me “Claim me.”

I offered a silent prayer to the heavens, asking forgiveness for having to take her purity in such a manner. Ling deserved to be loved, not taken in the heat of the moment.

Yet I was weak against her.

I couldn’t refuse my own desires any longer.

I took a deep breath and, in one swift motion, pushed myself all the way inside her.

I smothered her cry full of pain and longing with my mouth and remained still until her body adjusted to the intrusion.

I was hoping that the pain would jump-start her brain but, again, I was wrong. And her hips began moving on me before her mind could process the information.

I began to slowly move in and out of her, relishing the sweet friction of our bodies. But, while the soul might have been experienced, this body was not. I was just shy of 17 and I had been dreaming of doing this for years. Therefore, when her hands clawed at my back and her mouth pronounced my name for the first time at the peak of her own ecstasy, I was overwhelmed and poured my essence into the deepest recess of her womb.

Her second orgasm calmed her some more, but she still seemed to want more, and I could only thank the heavens that my body was that of a young man, able to keep up with her pace.

It was very late in the night when Ling’s breathing finally calmed, and she fell asleep inside my embrace. I felt sore, tired and sated in my own way, but I refused to let sleep claim me. Instead, I meditated and used some of my Chi to finalize the barrier around us and to revitalize me.

I would need energy in the morning.