With a roar like a wounded beast, Cal plunged into river, hit the midstream with a racing dive and was coming up fast. She sprinted for the bank, but didn’t make it. He tackled her in the shallows, bringing her to her knees in the soft mud.
When she tried to rise, he dragged her in deeper. He pulled her so hard against his chest that he knocked the air out of her lungs. His hands were everywhere, and his mouth was locked on hers. She wrapped her arms around the back of his head and did her best to hang on. At some point her blouse and shorts hit the beach with a wet splat.
He took her with his mouth and drove her up until she cried out at the midday sun. When he was done, the feeling of floating pervaded from the shallow water outside her body right down into the deepest center within. S
