Li Na wasn't able to see his expression, but her heart was calmed by his words.
They walked in silence, away from the vacationing crowds that were beginning to leave the park until the nearest were mere pinpricks on the horizon.
Then, hand-in-hand, at last, They stopped as they entered Li Jun's car.
"Did you enjoy it?" he asked, anxiously.
"Yes. Thank you."
Li Na was embarrassed by the way she hugged him in the crowd. Her loss of control of her emotions seemed to happen around him a lot. After a decade, a lifetime of holding back, it was as if some emotional dam had been burst.
Li Jun opened his hand and intertwined his fingers with hers. He looked straightforward, pretending not to see her suspicious look. Li Jun was quiet as they drove home. Li Na also didn't speak. However, she could feel that he had been continuously looking at her. The night was very quiet. The two people were silent, but they didn't feel uncomfortable. Li Na even felt her heart indistinctly leaping for joy.
However long a road was, it had to come to an end sometime. Despite knowing clearly that there were many days in the future. Despite knowing that there will be times they would see each other. Li Na felt reluctant to part with him.
Li Jun stopped his car in front of her apartment and leaned his face towards her. She leaned over and looked at his starry eyes. That's when Li Jun realized... Oh, wow. His skin rippled with buzzing intense suspense. He refused to react. He'd promised her that he wouldn't try anything untoward. But He'd never said she couldn't. And obviously, she wanted to. Li Na lifted her hand, and he held his breath. But then her fingertips barely grazed her cheek, and air hissed from his airways, unable to stay in. His pulse quickened as air snipped through his lips. She didn't say anything, and neither did he. She ran her knuckles up to his cleaned shaved jaw as she turned her hand over.
When they combed through his buzz-cut hair, he closed his eyes and bowed his head so she could reach him easier. "Li Na."Her name was a whispered prayer on his lips. His body was so strung out tight, he just knew he'd see the electrified tension igniting over his flesh if he opened his lashes.
"Aren't you going to touch me back?" Her voice was husky; she was just as turned on as he was. "I can't, remember? I promised I wouldn't touch you."
Her breath was heated on his lips, he groaned. "Li Jun," she whispered.
He opened his eyes just as she added, "Touch me." Her mouth met his own, and It jolted Li Jun across the full length of his body.
As her lips parted and a warm, moist tongue darted cautiously forward.
Li Jun gasped as he clutched her face and tipped her jaw until she was following his lead, clutching his arms and straining towards as she pressed against him in the car. She tasted of steak and bubble tea. Thrusting his hips against her softness, Li Jun tried to reduce some of the insistent throbbings. But she was so warm and pliable right now, nothing except long intense release was going to bring him down from his high. "Iris, you know how to kiss."
She was driving his mouth crazy with her shy, teasing, curious exploration. She pulled away to pants against Li Jun's throat.
"Really? I do?" Since she didn't sound as if she believed him, Li Jun thought he should just show her. "What do you think?" He returned his mouth to hers and took things a little deeper. She seemed eager to go where I took her, her hands smoothed up over his chest, along his arms, into his hair... "lord." Li Jun broke off to catch his breath. His shallow gasps stirred her hair as they placed their forehead to each other. She shivered and cuddled into him, so he wrapped his arms around her. They held each other as they both let out a calming breath.
The scent of the car made it almost heartwarming, but they were really here, really doing this, a post-graduate student and his horticulture professor fraternizing. Li Jun rested his mouth against her temple and soaked her in.
"I'm in this if you are Li Na. I know we have a lot to lose. But I fully believe we have more to gain if we start something. So, it's up to you completely. You have to make the final decision."
Hearing what he said, she nodded and smiled at him. Opening the door, she reminded him "You still have some explaining to do young man." Then she turned her face to the side as she got down, "Good night."
"Good night." His expression was a little helpless, but his eyes contained a smile.
Li Na, who obtained a good night kiss as Li Jun grabbed her hand, wanted to watch him leave.
But Li Jun didn't leave immediately as he watched her go into her apartment.
In the end, LI Na compromised. She walked a few steps, then suddenly turned back and mouthed at him, "Thank you, Li Jun."
Li Jun's happy expression didn't change as he waved back at her.
Entering her room, Li Na stood in the room and watched Li Jun's car zoom out of the front yard.
............
An unnoticed watcher stood a little distance away from Li Na's apartment, in the driver's seat of a generic red car that had stopped to the roadside a short distance up the road from the T-Junction. As he observed every detail of the couple's interaction across the parking lot, out of their sight, the person's eyes were filled with fury and mirth at the same time.
With the screeching of tires, Li Jun's black car reversed and pulled out into the street far too quickly, then drove away from the parked red car. But the watcher didn't seem to notice.
The watcher thought to himself that he was now back to claim his possession.
His Xu Li Na. Nobody was going to hijack Xu Li Na from him. The watcher had been waiting for this moment, imagining her shocked face when she saw that he was out of the prison, he was going to relish it. Touching the picture he just took, he smiled at her elegant figure as he angrily scratched out the face of the young man who was smiling at her some minutes ago.
Oh! Xu Li Na, wait for me, I am back. The watcher smiled with anticipation.