“Why don’t you try me?” she urged. Leaning forward slightly, she caught his lower lip between her teeth—before he could pull away, before he could realize what she was doing—and sucked on it. The taste of him—of that mouth she hadn’t been able to look away from since that fateful day in Rook and Redding’s—was enough to nearly undo her. She let go, pulling back just far enough to assess him.

