Chapter 30: Steady Downpour
Edwin touches our naked bodies with a sheet of his warm pouring rain, dotting our bare chests and broad shoulders with ocean water droplets. Thunder rakes over the Gulf of Mexico and coastline. In the distance, reaching out and over the ocean, crisp orange-yellow bolts of zigzagging lightning dance across the choppy gray-black waves. The wind is ferocious, whips against our bare flesh, teases our hair, and slaps at our muscular skin.
Hurricane Edwin doesn’t seem to matter to Trent as he leads me to the stretching beach, swings me in a gentle circle around him, and yells at the top of his voice through the pounding rain, “I have fallen in love with you, Storm Darlington!”
Piercing rain melts against my naked torso as I circle his body. A feeling of elation sur
