‘SEE YOU MORNING’ 097 Embrace Your World

The water droplets spraying from above refracted the brownish-yellow, slightly reddish bathroom light, resembling crystal-clear liquid amber, and shattered as they touched Brittany’s warm shoulders. Lübeck knew she had just sweated from exercise, so he turned up the water temperature a little to prevent the cold water from closing her pores. An experienced man can give his woman meticulous care, and can also tell from his tender caresses that Brittany has had sexual experience before. But he didn’t mind this at all. He had once had Ruth completely, and had given her his whole heart in return. When that heart shattered with her departure, it seemed that this restarted life no longer held any persistent expectations, except for the her who once was.
Brittany, who usually came across as straightforward and guileless, was sensitive at this moment. She sensed something, reached out with her left hand, took Lübeck’s right hand and placed it on her chest, looking into his eyes,
“My heart already belongs to you, from the moment I first saw you. Please don’t mind my past, will you?”
The shower water soaked her hair, streaming down her face and cheeks. Lübeck seemed to see her past of standing alone in the rain,
“In the past, I had no power to control my own fate, wandering from place to place. Until now, this is the first time I’ve been able to choose my own path in life. Please,”
Lübeck suddenly snapped awake, as if Brittany’s words had pulled him back from the tunnel of time he had been peering into,
“Oh, I don’t mind,” he said, wrapping his arms around her shoulders and back, giving her a hug.
“This is your home. No matter where we go, wherever I am is your home, okay?” As he spoke, Lübeck gently stroked Brittany’s back to calm her,
“Mm,” Brittany replied, pressing her face against Lübeck’s shoulder and neck, wrapping her arms around his waist,
The hot shower continued to spray endlessly, carrying steam that swirled and drifted in the bathroom’s yellow-orange light, the glow within it seeming to condense all the years that had passed into this single moment in time. The water ran down her face, washing away Brittany’s tear-stained past. It flowed down her neck and across her chest, soothing McGowan’s heart filled with unease and hesitation.
Gently pulling away from Brittany’s embrace, Lübeck looked at her with affection, brushing the strands of hair from her forehead so the water wouldn’t cloud her eyes,
“Let me wash you, okay?” Lübeck wanted so badly to care for her,
“Okay,” Brittany looked up at Lübeck, the light in her eyes like the sky when the sun breaks through the clouds,
Lübeck put one arm around Brittany’s waist, adjusting her stance and position so the shower head sprayed directly onto her body. He gently stroked her skin with his right hand, letting the clear water wash away the sweat from her body. From her shoulders and neck to her chest and abdomen, Lübeck held Brittany by the waist, carefully cleaning each part of her skin from top to bottom until it felt warm and silky smooth, before moving on to the next.
Brittany watched Lübeck quietly, from when he first stood beside her, to when he bent down in front of her, until finally he knelt at her feet, his arms wrapped around her thighs. It was as if all her steadfastness and persistence had finally been rewarded in this moment. All the turbulent past, all the hardships and unwillingness she had endured along the way, had finally come to fruition,
“Lift your foot,”
Lübeck’s words pulled Brittany back from her thoughts, and she obediently lifted her left foot,
“The other one,”
When Lübeck had finished doing all this for her and stood back up in front of her, Brittany said quietly,
“Let me do this for you too, okay?”
“Okay,” As soon as the words left his mouth, Lübeck thought for a moment,
“Wait, that’s not fair. My surface area is way bigger than yours, hahaha,”
“Oh, right. Then? I’ll just use a more efficient method,” she said, spraying shower gel onto a towel, holding it with both hands and rubbing it all over Lübeck’s body while giggling,
Lübeck held onto the handrail on the wall behind him to keep from being pushed over by her excitement, smiling as he watched her let her imagination run wild. The dim yellow light refracted through the rising steam and seemed almost hypnotic, or perhaps it was the water droplets splashing into his eyes that blurred his vision. After finally cooperating with Brittany to finish her task, Lübeck decided it was time to end this playful bath. He was tired. He had only recently completed his age reversal and hadn’t regained his muscle strength yet; his physical fitness was much worse than that of an average 25-year-old man on Earth. So he excused himself and went back to bed to rest first.
Brittany was very meticulous, perhaps due to her profession, but it also had to do with her personality and traits. She cleaned up the bathroom before coming to lie down with Lübeck,
Before, when Brittany had taken care of him, Lübeck hadn’t yet decided to be with her, so he had always put up a psychological barrier between them. Now those barriers were completely gone,
“You’re tired,” Brittany put her hand on Lübeck’s chest and whispered in his ear,
“Yeah, I still need time to recover,”
“Don’t rush. I’ll help you get better,”
“Yeah, you’re the professional,”
“Of course,” she said, resting her head on Lübeck’s arm and leaning against his side,
It was as if with Lübeck’s clear and unwavering love, Brittany had become more confident and charming,
“Erich, don’t you want to tell me your story?”
Lübeck wrapped his arm around Brittany, turned his head to look into her eyes that were fixed on him, and smiled. It was a feeling of happiness he hadn’t felt in a long time. He didn’t hide anything, but opened his heart to her and said directly,
“I feel happy,”
Hearing Lübeck say this, Brittany became even more certain of her choice, her heart already ablaze,
She got up and lay on Lübeck’s chest, stretching her arms to press against his. She kissed his neck and whispered softly,
“Please let me make you happy. Let me make you happy. Let me give myself to you completely,”
Her tenderness, her breath, her unwavering devotion to love gradually infected Lübeck. He turned his head to find her soft, warm lips,
As they kissed, Brittany’s fiery body climbed onto Lübeck’s. Her damp hair hung down over his cheeks, like her moist love flowing over and nourishing his body,
Brittany’s arms supported the weight of her upper body. The strands of hair falling down revealed the line of her bowed neck, leading to the strong muscles of her shoulders and back that held her up, and then to the curved arch of her spine,
Gradually, the muscles in Brittany’s neck, shoulders and arms could no longer support the weight of her head. So she simply placed her hands on either side of Lübeck’s shoulders and neck, sliding down his body until her cheek was pressed against his carotid artery, feeling the rhythm of his life,
Lübeck was a little tired, lying on his back on the bed and letting this little elf do as she pleased with him. Until her kisses were no longer enough to express what she felt, and she kept sliding down his chest searching for more. Only then did he tighten his arms around Brittany’s waist, connecting to the very depths of her soul.