“His jaw was slack and his mouth open, and he wondered if perhaps he would drown eventually; drowned by the falling rain.”
“Open your mouth, tesoro.” He angled her face higher. “Open your mouth for me.”At his raw demand, her eyes flared wide. For a drunken moment, he drowned in glorious brown, rich, autumnal, sensual.”
“... my face is buried in the soft material of his shirt and my cheek is pressed against his chest and he smells like strength and courage and the world drowning in rain.”
“If his mother was drowning and I was drowning and he had to choose one of us to save, He says he'd save me.”
“Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.”
“He is dangerous, he is beautiful, I could drown in his understanding.”