Sharing a Pavilion With You
Chapter 89: Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

Chapter 89: Mouth to Mouth Resuscitation

The Second Prince had no time to find a reed or a bamboo tube as the medical text suggested, to avoid improper actions!

The prince pressed his lips to Meili’s perfect, soft lips and gently breathed his breath into her mouth.

It was a long slow breath, he shared as much of it as he had, until he needed to come up for air himself to refill his lungs.

She could have it all, he thought, if only she would awaken and take in his breath!

He took in another deep lungful of air and pressed his lips back against Meili’s.

Why did this have to be the way he first kissed her pretty lips? he thought in despair.

Was he too late?

Meili’s eyes flew wide open, and she stared into the handsome, for some reason sad, eyes of the Second Prince, which were millimetres from her own.

She felt his lips pressed against her open mouth and she drew in a deep breath, filling her lungs with sweet air and the intimate masculine taste of this man.

His nose rested against hers, his hand held the back of her head. She was flooded with confusion.

Wasn’t she drowning? How did she find herself here in the arms of the Second Prince, seemingly engaged in passionately kissing the man?

Oh, thank the heavens! the prince thought, as her eyes flew open and stared with confusion into his own.

He felt her draw in one deep slow breath, then another.

He must stay like this a little longer, he thought, just until he could be certain she was breathing on her own!

As she inched backwards away from him, he pressed forwards.

The full force of his fear of losing her came crashing down, driving his emotions from terror to passion, and he stopped sharing his breath with her and started to ardently kiss her, with a fierceness the equal and opposite of his fear.

She was alive! And she was in his arms and safe.

And he loved her...

He pressed her tightly to him as he desperately kissed her.

Meili wracked her muddled brain as the man kissed her silly.

Had she had passed away? Could it be that she was now in the underworld being judged by the ten magistrates of hell?

Where were the gold and silver bridges she hoped to see there?

Was this debauchery her punishment being meted out to her by a judge?

What had she done in her life to warrant this? she thought indignantly.

Surely, she had not lead a life worthy of such an insult to a young unmarried girl...

She pushed on the Second Prince’s chest. He felt surprisingly real enough. Solid, with a hard and muscular chest. She felt across it with her delicate hands, curiously feeling the contours of his bare skin through his open robe, which had been dragged apart in the water.

The prince let out a moan through his kisses, his eyes fluttering closed as the girl touched his naked chest.

Actually, the man was dripping wet, she realised, as her hands felt across his pectoral muscles. His hair dripped water onto her face with a soft plish.

Was she still alive? Had he rescued her? She reached up blindly and felt his hair, then his face.

The prince groaned loudly into her gorgeous mouth as she touched him so intimately.

"Do you know what you’re doing to me woman?" he half-growled, half-whispered. "My self-control is hanging on by a whisker."

That was most definitely the Second Prince, and it didn’t sound like what an underworld character would say.

It sounded like exactly what that wicked man would say when he was taking liberties with her!

Meili, pinched his flesh, testing if he was a real person who felt pain.

He continued to kiss her, so she pushed hard with her two hands against the prince’s chest, and he finally removed his lips from hers, hovering inches above her face and looking into her eyes with an intensity that shook her.

"Am I alive?" she whispered to the ghost prince.

He continued to stare intently at her, brushing the wet hair from her face.

"Your highness?"

She was overtaken by a fit of desperate coughing.

Her lungs burned, and her throat ached as she coughed and coughed until she rolled to the side and expelled a mouthful of water, still coughing desperately.

He gently placed her on his lap facing downwards, patting her back to expel any more water she had swallowed.

"You’re okay. You’re okay, Meili. It’s fine now. I’ve got you. Don’t be scared," he spoke gently to her.

Tricky lay beside the Second Prince and weakly licked Meili’s shaking hand.

She started to shake all over.

"Are you cold Meili? Come, I’ll take you to get fresh clothes and warm you back up. Don’t be scared," he spoke tenderly as he picked her up in a princess carry.

Meili looked up into the Second Prince’s eyes. She noticed he was calling her informally.

"Your highness," she said weakly, exhausted by her ordeal, "please don’t disrespect me".

She saw hurt and vulnerability in his eyes, and she softened, remembering he had saved both her and Tricky from drowning.

"But thank you, your highness," she murmured, her memory of those last terrifying moments gradually returning. "Thank you for rescuing us both."

She had been so frightened of taking Tricky down to the bottom of that lake with her.

"I was late... I was late. I’m sorry," he said, the torment and fear of the incident clear in his voice.

"You weren’t late your highness, you came right on time," her teeth had started to chatter. "Someone... pushed... me in," she whispered haltingly.

The Second Prince closed his eyes in anger as he strode towards the gate.

He knew this would happen! This was exactly what he had warned his Emperor Father about!

Mei Meili was ’under his protection’, he had said! So much for the Emperor’s protection...

On her third day in the palace someone had tried to drown her! And just knew this would only be the start...

The prince was enraged.

"Did you see who it was?"

"No, I turned when Tricky growled, but I didn’t catch his face. It was a eunuch."

Figures, thought the Second Prince. They were the lackies of the consorts, the Prime Minister, his elder brother, and anyone who paid them enough, so that didn’t narrow the culprit down at all.

A group of eunuchs and servants approached them at a run on seeing the drenched state of the Second Prince and the Court Lady in his arms.

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