Chapter 36: Say My Name

A blast of heat wakes him.

It’s like drowning in her scent, drinking it in and swallowing it in gulps. The sun casts streaking shadows across the wall when he opens his eyes, but he’d rather look at—

Beth sighs in her sleep, not quite awake yet. Her hair tumbles across her pillow in a soft fan, gold and red shining under the doeskin brown— her natural hair, at long last. She smells delicious, ripe and ready, even through the thin cotton of his tee shirt. His tee shirt, which she’s wearing, content simply because it’s his. He’s hard as a pike thinking about it.

She doesn’t stir even when he pushes the shirt up, bunching it carefully so that he doesn’t choke her, searching for the swollen red gland between her shoulder blades. When he brushes his lips over it, she sighs again, arching her back to give him better access.

God. Sean swallows, parting his lips over the gland. Her taste. He’s going to go mad, he’s sure of it.