God Of Crafting

"Oooh?"

With how much Claire moved around, it was inevitable. An outcome that one didn't have to be a genius to predict… And yet, the outcome that I desperately wanted to avoid.

'Come on! We were sitting, talking, having a good time overall… So why fuck it up now?!' I cried out in my thoughts… but by now, it was too late.

With her head already over my shoulder, Claire didn't wait to satisfy her curiosity when the texture below her legs didn't fit her expectations. And as she turned her eyes down and looked into the water…

Let's say, for all the QI and herbs in the bath, the water was still nearly perfectly pristine, offering no obstruction for Claire's eyes as she pretty much confirmed the reason for the weird shape against which she ended up rubbing her legs.

"Oh, I see…" Claire muttered, momentarily frozen with her eyes still uncomfortably locked on my own crotch.

"If you can already tell, then how about you stop clinging to me so much?" In my desperation, I suggested.

If all that Claire needed to do for the next two days was to keep two physical loops around me to keep the two circles of moving Qi around me, then she didn't really need to hug me so tightly, didn't she?

Then, still…

'But to survive for two more days like that, even if she gets to distance herself a bit…'

I clenched my jaws so hard, that my teeth started to hurt.

On one hand, I wanted to not only enjoy the most out of this moment but also see just how far I could take it… No, how far would Claire allow me to take it?

But on the other, more rational hand…

She was the daughter of Chihiro! And he was not only one of the most powerful men in the entirety of the city if not outright the entire country, both in terms of cultivation and personal influence… But that man was also my boss!

And while I could somewhat see him allowing this bath to happen out of necessity and the urgency of the moment…

I wasn't the horny teenager of five years prior who would take the risk of sinking a six million Esecs deal just to get to touch and feel some!

"I can tell that you are blushing hard even without looking," Claire whispered in a strangely low, sensual voice. And if that wasn't enough of her teasing… She started to move her legs up and down, gently stroking the underside of my erection by doing so.

It was… awkward at best, given how she had to maintain the lock of her legs, forcing her movements to be limited in nature and extremely restrained in both speed and range…

But still, having Claire rub her shins against my dick was a feeling I didn't expect to experience in this whole damned life of mine!

"Why are you holding back?" Claire whispered right into my ear. And judging by how I couldn't feel her moving, she somehow figured it out without even looking at my face!

"I mean…" I attempted to reply… but how was I to do so?

'You are the daughter of a powerful man who is to become my boss.'

'We know each other for how long, three days by now?'

'How is it that nearly every meeting of ours ends up in a risque situation like this?'

There were so many ways in which I could answer… but all of them only invited more trouble down the line!

'You are the daughter… No, she's her own person!'

'We know each other for… And since when are we obliged to subscribe to how others develop their own situationships?'

'How is it that nearly… Isn't this just a sign we are fated to do it anyway?'

For every answer I could come up with, my mind provided a potential reply that would only dig my grave even further. And with how I genuinely had no idea what to do or say, I just opted to remain silent instead.

"I mean, when I asked you to get comfortable, I really meant it. And since we are going to stay like this for at least two more days…"

Claire moved up my back again, this time climbing just a little bit higher, only to then pivot her entire body to the left as she squeezed her arms one past the other, all the way to the point where both of her hands reached over my neck and all the way to the base of the opposite shoulder of her.

With that done, she waited still for a short moment, before suddenly lowering one of her hands.

The upper circle of the spinning spiritual energy… continued to go as per usual, with the loop now closed over her collarbone, the base of her left shoulder, then moving through the entire length of her left arm all the way to the tips of her fingers that she pressed against her right shoulder, closing the loop. And with her other hand…

Just like I always projected myself to be as gentle with my partner during our first intimate encounter, Claire didn't rush things, opting to just place her now freed hand squarely against my chest, perfectly central and on the height level of my heart.

Even though the warmth of the Qi-thick water already got me used to its temperature, when Claire's fingers laid down on my chest, I found her touch both chillingly cold… but also extremely warm.

"Since we are going to stay like this for two more days, then how about we…" Claire gulped her saliva so hard, I could both hear and then feel it happen. "How about we use a slightly more efficient method?"

As the girl spoke, her thighs tightened over my waist while her hand slowly slid down my chest to my stomach and then lower and lower, soon bound to reach the base of my…

"Why?"

This single word was the only thing I could come up with, the only method that had any chance at stopping Claire before, in the moment of heat and curiosity, she would go too far.

"I'm just a good investment, so why do you go that far?"

I nearly bit my tongue right as I was uttering those foolish words.

'Didn't I already decide she wasn't treating me that coldly and… objectively? And yet, in the heat of the moment, I still ended up rolling back to this mental dilemma of mine.

BUT HOW COULD I NOT?!

The girl that I knew to be just a shopkeeper in a random store of the cultivation district, somehow ended up being the rich lady of one of the most powerful clans in the whole damn city if not country! And now she was clinging with her skin directly pressing against mine while her hand inched closer and closer to my raging erection!

The dissonance between those two backgrounds of ours that couldn't be any further apart was so great, it made me feel like there was something absolutely wrong with the current setting!

'If anything, I should be the one coming onto her, not the other way around!'

"Just a good investment, you say…?" Claire's voice turned… weird. Her entire body grew stiff… regretfully, not losing even the slightest bit of its softness or warmth in the process.

The good thing, however, was that her hand stopped, just an uncomfortable two inches away from the base of my dick.

Then, Claire's hold grew somewhat tenser… but in a different way to how she would fix her embrace over and over again before that.

"If you are just a good investment," Claire finally managed to process all that I've said and come to some sort of a conclusion, "then I'm here just to sweeten the deal we offered, aren't I?!"