Xiao Feng emerged from the bath, tousling damp hair with a towel. Kelly arranged porcelain beside a table already graced with sumptuous dishes—the room suffused with serenely intimate ambience.
Observing his cleansed countenance, Kelly perceived for the first time Xiao Feng's striking beauty. Water-darkened strands framed features possessed of youth's mesmeric allure. As a woman, she found herself defenseless against such magnetism; her gaze lingered before she murmured, faint color rising to her cheeks, "Come dine. I've prepared what I could—the hour forbade market visits. A humble repast."
Xiao Feng surveyed exotic fare: unfamiliar shellfish, herb-crusted beef, pasta glistening with scarlet reduction. "Our Ambassador conceals culinary mastery," he remarked, savoring aromatic steam. "My palate stirs with anticipation."
Kelly's laughter sparkled beneath the lamplight. "Shall we uncork wine?"
"Indeed."
With ceremonial grace, she revealed a long-cherished vintage, its sanguine depths swirling into crystal goblets. Xiao Feng raised his glass, contrition shadowing his expression. "Our first shared cup. I know not what words suffice... Let this toast convey my deepest remorse for that night's trespass. Henceforth, demand any recompense—I shall render it unquestioningly." He drained the chalice.
Kelly's demeanor frosted. "The past remains interred. Moreover," she added icily, "your salvation of Kerry settles all debts."
Recognizing the wound still festered beneath her composure, Xiao Feng wordlessly refilled and consumed his wine. Unlike whiskey's fire, this vintage flowed like tempered berry nectar.
"You desecrate the art of viniculture!" Kelly protested as he drank.
"Educate me, then," he entreated.
Their discourse kindled over oenophilic ritual. Glasses emptied; awkwardness dissolved. Xiao Feng devoured the feast with rapturous abandon.
Post-prandial, Kelly illuminated a wall-spanning screen displaying a pre-Purge cinematic jewel—lovers tracing shorelines to melancholic melodies.
Kaleidoscopic emotions played across Kelly's features as the tragedy unfolded. Nestled together upon the sofa, sharing a bowl of glistening fruit, she surrendered to cathartic tears.
Xiao Feng—a stranger to moving pictures—fumbled at her distress. Tentatively, his arm encircled her shoulders. She leaned into his solid warmth, discovering an unfamiliar sanctuary within his embrace.
Wine's delayed embrace soon claimed them. Xiao Feng's heightened senses drank Kelly's proximity: the delicate fragrance of her skin, the tremor of her breathing. He studied her tear-streaked face, luminous in the screen's argent glow—stripped of ambassadorial austerity, she radiated devastating allure.
The carnal temptation of her vermilion lips proved irresistible. He inclined toward their promise.
Kelly observed his descent, suspended between resistance and surrender. Their mouths met—a collision of hesitance and hunger. Her lips parted in experimental concession, then her arms entwined about his neck, drawing him deeper into the kiss.
Chapter Seventy: Dawn's First Light (Continued)
Kelly yielded to Xiao Feng's touch without resistance. After several tentative reciprocations, her arms encircled his neck, locking them in fervent communion.
Emboldened by her surrender and wine's intoxicating haze, Xiao Feng abandoned restraint. One hand anchored at the delicate curve of her waist while the other cupped the modest swell beneath her blouse, his palm molding tender softness with reverent pressure.
Beneath his ministrations, Kelly's breath fractured into tremulous sighs. Desire kindled within her, each caress fanning embers into consuming flame.
Her fingers worked buttons with urgent grace, revealing alabaster skin sheathed in midnight lace. The silhouette of her bosom, luminous in the screen's argent glow, curved with hypnotic allure.
Xiao Feng's mouth traced a burning path along her throat—a student emulating the lovers' entwined forms flickering upon the screen. His questing hand slipped beneath lace, capturing a budding peak that hardened instantly against his touch. He kneaded the responsive nub, guided by primal instinct.
Waves of rapturous sensation dissolved Kelly's composure. Each gasped exhalation against Xiao Feng's ear inflamed him further, his kisses descending with predatory devotion—from throat to shoulder, then lower still, as if mapping sacred geography upon her skin.
Arching upward, Kelly reached behind to unfasten her restraint.
Before him lay twin coral buds upon ivory slopes. Xiao Feng bent to worship them, his tongue swirling deliberate provocation around each tightening crest.
Kaili's soft gasps gradually rose into delicate cries of passion.Kelly, suffused with moisture from Xiao Feng's tender ministrations,
From the sofa to the carpet, and from the carpet to the bedroom, their passionate entanglement stretched on for hours. By the time they drifted into a drowsy slumber, the first light of dawn was already spilling through the window.