All of Me

Shao Lin woke up before sunrise.

Long Yat-sen was still asleep next to her. His eyelashes curtained his cheeks, and his arm was sprawled above his head. She bent over him to kiss him lightly before she shifted out from the sheets, her bare feet touching the carpeted floor.

Since they married, they had not slept in separate beds, mostly because Long Yat-sen insisted they share a bed after their wedding night. Who knew it would take one night of sex to persuade him, as he considered separate rooms before?

Shao Lin was grateful for it, fearing the distance between them would only stretch if they were to have separate rooms, separate lives, but now she can feel the gap closing in.

She also had the opportunity to appreciate how he looked wholly unguarded and relaxed in the early hours of the morning. Only she was allowed to see him like that.