Jia Hao led Mira to their room first. He put her on the bed while he picked up a change of clothes, scented flowers and a softer body scrub which he wrapped in a long fur sheet which he hung at his back and tied over his chest before he went to meet her on the bed.

Mira raised her ass slightly to allow him and he put his hands on her ass and lifted her body up with one hand before holding her with both against his form. Now they walked out of his chambers. Jia Hao knew Ming Tao was following. That cheetah could just not back away and he wanted to take Mira to a place Ming Tao could not go into without revealing his presence to both of them.

"I’m taking you to the hot spring. Is that okay?" Jia Hao asked.

Mira’s body quaked in his body. Jia Hao felt her heart beat rate change as her body was pressed against his chest when he asked that, he knew what that meant but he did not say a word.

"Yes." Mira spoke, her voice soft. "That is fine." She sighed. "And maybe that skinny cat would stop stalking us." She added.

Jia Hao smiled. "You knew?"

"He had a habit of following me. I only figured he might be doing so now especially when I mentioned I wanted to have a wash." Mira stated.

Jia Hao chuckled. "You seem to know him so well."

"Nah." Mira shook her head. "Let’s just say, a pervert knows the mind of a fellow pervert."

"Pervert?" Jia Hao questioned. They had reached the hot spring. He walked in with her.

Right. He did not know what that word means, Mira said in her mind. "Nevermind it." She uttered. Mira reached her head up to his jaw level and placed a kiss on the lower portion of his face. Jia Hao’s cheeks flushed.

"Do that again and we wouldn’t just be washing your body." Jia Hao said, his voice deeper. Mira kissed him again, this time, she let her lips brush the end of his lip.

"Who said I only wanted a wash?" She grinned, her throat a throaty purr.

"Do not tempt a lion who’s not had the splendour of being alone with his wife all day." Jia Hao smirked. His gaze went ahead to strip her naked faster than his hands. He sat Mira by the Hot spring and knelt by her side. He undid the knot of the fur around his chest and put it on the spring bank. He opened it and brought all the items in it out. 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"Mira." Jia Hao called. He separated her clothes from the flower fragrances and the bath scrub then folded the fur. He put the folded fur sheet on the pile of her folded clothing. "Now, it is just the two of here here. Talk to me, how do you truly feel?"

Jia Hao’s voice was soft. So warm and full of sincerity that saw right through her.

"What do you mean? I have not been pretending." Mira uttered. She chuckled nervously.

Jia Hao knelt-walked behind her and undid her leaves bra from her back. Mira’s breast came loose. He took it off her body gently. Jia Hao’s hands replaced the portion of her skin her leaves bra conveyed and he massaged her skin. Mira groaned to his touch. That felt so relaxing.

"You forget that I have lived with you the longest and I know you. Nothing can go past me that easily." Jia Hao said. Now his hands rested on her shoulder and he kneaded his fingers into her shoulder to her neck and collar bones.

"What do you think I am hiding?" Mira asked.

"A lot of things. You just woke up from a traumatic experience and you are letting the man who caused it carry you around. You’re trying not to let him feel the weight of his deeds. You’re involving him in your life. I do not think you have given yourself the time to heal even when you try to act like you have. When I mentioned coming to the hot spring, I noticed a change in your heart beat. I only assume it means this place still leaves a scar in your mind yet you act like it doesn’t. I feel like you are not okay. I feel like you have barely given yourself time to breathe and heal and everything you do is just you trying to rush through the feeling burning in your heart."

This made Mira go dead silent. This was it, the thing that worried her about Jia Hao. It was as if he saw right through her. It made her wonder how the old owner of this body could ruin a man this emotionally sensitive. Mira gulped.

"Sometimes, you notice me beyond what I even do about myself." Mira finally uttered, breaking the silence.

"I would be a terrible husband if I did not." Jia Hao stated.

"Then there is Ming Tao." Mira giggled.

"Tonight is not about him, but about you. Forget anyone else right now and let us talk about you, my love."

Oh dear. At this rate, this lion king would make Mira fall so hard for him that she would never want to let go.

[Is that not the point, host? To love your beast men and let yourself be loved?]

Mira gulped as system’s statement. It was the entire point. She thought the point was simply righting the wrongs of old Mira and for her to breed. Guess she was wrong.

"So? Willing to share what truly runs through your head with me? I mean, I’ve bitten you before but I don’t bite." Jia Hao joked, he hoped this was working.

"I. . ." Mira began. "I guess talking to you about it won’t hurt."

This made Jia Hao exhale with relief.

"But I need you to promise me two things, first." Mira added, her tone more serious.