CEO's Reborn Wife-Chapter 398 - 406: Can We Hold for a While Longer?

"So you’re not sleepy anymore?" James Black’s voice was tinged with a smile.

Only then did the woman in his arms finally open her eyes, but she glared at him.

The woman who had just been tenderly loved, with her cheeks flushed red and her eyes as beautiful as autumn waters shaping pupils, had no deterrent power in that glare. Instead, it was filled with petulant charm.

James chuckled to himself. Indeed, she was a delicate creature.

"Do you want to take a bath?" James Black didn’t tease Jane Sampson anymore. He was just concerned that she might be uncomfortable sleeping after sweating so much, so he asked.

Jane Sampson nodded, hummed an affirmative, and then added, "I want to, but I have no strength."

James Black patted the small hand on his waist. "I’ll run the water for you."

"Okay," Jane responded quickly.

But...

The small hand wrapped around someone’s waist did not loosen or retract, but remained as before, with both hands encircling his waist and her face still resting against his chest, motionless, truly motionless.

James Black couldn’t help but conceal a chuckle, "Let go, will you?"

Jane’s face rubbed against his chest, with a voice muffled like a spoiled little kitten, "I’m too weak, don’t even have the strength to lift my arm."

After saying that, she hummed and then added, "Let me hold you a little longer~"

She had experienced that person’s physique even before her rebirth.

Before rebirth, intimate acts between husband and wife were never something he indulged in or fell for.

Neither did she.

Yet even so, his physical strength often left her feeling terrified.

And this time, Jane Sampson could clearly feel, it was different.

He was different.

And she, it seemed, was different as well.

"Looks like I need more training," James Black said, lightly patting the top of her head with his large palm.

Jane Sampson played dead, pretending she didn’t hear a word he said. She wasn’t truly so energy-depleted that she couldn’t even lift her arm. After all, she wasn’t that weak.

Not wanting to move was simply because, inexplicably, she didn’t want to let go.

She inexplicably coveted the warmth of his embrace at this moment.

She inexplicably coveted the brief moments of peace after pleasure.

She had never tried to hold onto him with such longing after being intimate. Before, after it was over, she would lie back in her own space, and occasionally, he would pull her back into his arms and hold her to sleep for the night.

But more often than not, she remained in her own little realm, alone with the anxiety and indifference between them after the pleasure.

Jane Sampson thought, maybe this quiet embrace wasn’t so bad.

"James Black." Jane Sampson suddenly spoke his name while in his arms.

James Black hummed in response, his hand which was idly toying with her hair pausing slightly, as his eyes fell upon hers.

"Don’t stroke my head like you’re petting the Great General’s dog," Jane Sampson said, and suddenly letting go of him, she raised her foot and kicked the man beside her off the bed, "And go run my bath water!"

James Black was caught off guard and fell to the ground as Jane Sampson kicked him off the bed.

He was stunned for a few seconds before he came to his senses and burst into laughter at Jane’s antics.

"Getting too arrogant, need to be put in your place?" He stood up from the ground and pounced back to firmly lock Jane Sampson in his arms.

"Old rascal! Get dressed and go run my bath water!" Jane Sampson felt somewhat cowed by James Black’s gaze but still pointed emphatically toward the bathroom with a commanding hand.