I don't want to give him a reason to worry again

They lay there catching their breath for long minutes as he stroked his hands down over her soft curves enjoying the quivering feel of her highly sensitized body. Finally smacking her ass he grinned, "So about this food you were offering me before you realised my idea was better than yours."

Changying laughed and wriggled free of his arms wrapping her robe about her, "Better go see if I can salvage any of the food."

Wang followed her out to the kitchen after pulling on his boxers to find her pulling two plates carefully from the warming tray of the oven and putting them on the table. "Chunhua must have done it," Changying shrugged.

They talked quietly about the changes in Chunhua, and the fun Changying had shopping with her. "Seems this mystery guy is a good influence," Wang's smile bordered on a smirk and took her hand, "Family is extremely important to me, Changying. I'm glad Chunhua is treating you more like a daughter that is how it is supposed be."

She smiled, "I don't think my phone gets coverage in the mall, it didn't ring once while we were shopping." Changying got up to take their plates to the kitchen and retrieved her phone from her bag.

Wang pulled a face, "I have never seen your phone before or I might have understood." He held out his hand for it, "This is practically an antique don't you ever upgrade?"

"I never had a problem before tonight," she shrugged.

His tone turned sharp, "Don't shrug Changying. I didn't like not knowing where you were or whom you were with, and it won't happen again, understand."

Changying was taken aback, his tone was that of the control freak work Wang and how he dealt with people who worked for him. The tone was not how they were outside work, and she felt the command in each word. Stunned she didn't respond so he pressed her, punctuating each word, "Do. You. Understand?"

Changying nodded reminding herself of Chunhua's advice, he was worried because he cared about her, he wouldn't be angry if he didn't care. Wang continued to stare at her until she whispered, "Yes, I understand."

Wang's mouth tilted to a smile, and he leaned forward to kiss her murmuring, "Good girl."

Wang dressed and left shortly after leaving Changying to clean the kitchen and consider the strange night. By the time Changying crawled into bed, it was well after midnight, and she fell into a restless sleep confused as to whether Chunhua had finally out grown her cougar mode and that it seemed Wang truly cared about her, he just showed it in his own controlling way.

Chunhua woke Changying up the following morning, "Come on baby you are going to be late for work it's not the weekend yet."

Changying blinked and looked at the clock, before gasping and sitting bolt upright. "Shit I must have slept through my alarm," she bounded from bed and into the bathroom having the quickest shower on record. Flying into her bedroom she saw that Chunhua had made her bed and laid out an outfit from the new clothes she had bought last night allowing her to dress without the usual worry about what Wang might like or not. Pulling on her boots she glanced quickly in the mirror surprised at how well her boots went with the outfit. She brushed her hair and pulled it back into her usual ponytail and dusted her face with glow to hide the worn look of not enough sleep. Changying rushed out of her bedroom to find her phone and bag and Chunhua smiled, "Slow down, baby. You have plenty of time, eat some breakfast."

"After last night I just don't want to give him reason to worry again, I will take some fruit," she threw an apple and banana from the fruit bowl into her bag along with her phone. "Have a good day, don't be late for work either," Changying said as she walked out the door.

Eating the apple on her way, Changying pulled into the underground parking of the publishing house with minutes to spare. Hurrying into the lift with several co-workers she kept glancing at her watch. A girl jostled closer within the lift and whispered to Changying, "Wow, you look good today, have you lost weight?"

Changying looked up into the eyes of a friend from the research department smiling, "New dress that's all," she whispered back, but she straightened her back feeling good about the wardrobe makeover she had begun last night and for the first time in years felt good about having gone shopping with her mother.

"Come down and visit us more often," her friend said as she stepped from the lift, "before you are too far out of our league." Her friend's laughter sounded as the lift doors closed once again.

Stepping out of the lift she hurried to her small office peeking in to see Wang was not at his desk. Breathing a sigh of relief she put her things away and sat to start working, she was enjoying the latest project she had begun which focused on a group of rural families in Lombardy, Italy during the revolts of the 1840's and 50's. Doomed to failure many families had fled the lush farmland for safer ports leaving the way open for a land grab and monopoly of the produce market by only a few. Lost in her research of family feud's and alliances the courier at her door had to clear his throat twice to get her attention.