Her lips parted. The rain softened the silence between us. Then she smiled. “Okay,” she whispered. Something in my chest gave way. I leaned in and kissed the hollow between her breasts. Penny’s breath hitched. I kissed lower, over the rain-wet skin of her sternum, then to the curve of one breast, slow enough to feel her start shaking before my mouth reached her n****e. When I closed my lips around it, she made a sound that turned every drop of blood in my body into fire. Her hand flew to my hair. “Liam.” I sucked gently, then harder when her nails scraped my scalp. Her back arched away from the tree and into my mouth, and I caught her with one arm around her waist, holding her there while I worshipped her like I wanted to every day of my life.. She tasted like rain. Like skin.

