When the tension crests and Susan shakes apart, she does so as quietly as she ever does, but her thigh flexes against Liu Mingyan's cheek and she shudders, mouth falling lax against her own wrist. She wants to luxuriate in the aftershocks, to lie languid under Liu Mingyan's tongue for a while longer, but she also wants -

- she tugs at Liu Mingyan's hair, hard enough to pull her mouth away. "Come up here," she says, equally eager for whatever Liu Mingyan might read into the words. "I want to--"