Once the decision was made, Willow felt emboldened. She opened her shift and shrugged her shoulders until the thin straps of her shift slipped down her arms, and only the swell of her breasts held the thin material up. Liam carefully set his taper back into the candle stick.
"I thought you wouldn't come," he said gruffly.
"I didn't think I would either," she admitted with a small smile.
He crossed the few short steps that separated them, and drew her body close to his, pressing the small of her back so that her full breasts were crushed against the plane of his chest. He studied her face for just a moment before he dipped his head to claim her lips. She yielded willingly, and allowed herself the freedom of touching him. In the bath she'd been tentative, but now her hands were sure a
