t mind.

nd I had you naked and spread across our

feeling furious heat

r. Deke smiled smugly. Bastard! He’d come to fight dirty and ha

you and Luc?” A

es

e blurted at

working again. “Come outside w

you and your cousin, I’m not coming near your kitchen cou

y something I thin

just another wet hole to you,

ink later, he crowded in and hovered toe-to-toe with her, one arm around

ing to find the nearest chair, pull that little skirt up over your a

ath necessary to say, “You

ed SOB. Even as she thought it, though, her belly fl

ave no

. “I’ll sur

he club, y’all. You’ll have to take it outside.” She whirled on him, jaw dropping. The jerk was let

’m going home.” The Catrell brothers laughed. Blo

gh to believe that Deke would leave it at that. He wa

the

again. Kimber found the biggest, meanest bouncer of t

being followed.” She sent a nast

e his comment and inform the bouncer that he was an annoying stranger, deranged stalker—something—Deke hauled he

lly tried. Despite the fury swirling through her, Deke incited a familiar leap of pulse, a surge of want, that doused her protests. With a brush of his lips, a slow caress

breaths, and tongues she would never have imagined Deke Trenton capable of. Timeless, weightless,

slid a soft brush of his mouth over hers. Without thinking, sh

“I’m sorry about yesterday

all,” said the bouncer

parking lot, headlights bobbing up and down on the dirt road, and cruised to the far end. Somewhere near, a pair of frogs croaked to one

upidity. Damn it, she hadn’t intended to heel after Deke kissed and stroked her. She may as well have b

could wonder what mischief he was up to, Deke snaked out a hand and snatched the keys from her fingers. They disappeared deep into the pocket of his jeans. The only way to get them back was to slide her

keys. “Now you’re not going anywhere until we finish this chat.”

lling. I’ve come here to offer yo

t he meant? “You came here to say that

looking terribl

since she wasn’t going to win Jesse’s heart without an education. Letting the Catrel

t Deke know that. “Maybe i

and Burke.” So uncomfortable that she’d blo

tried to scare me off the other day.”

u would never have talked to me li

N

me in a sexual context if I hadn’t come knocking on you

ps man turned bodyguard couldn’t have thought about he

y, you never imagined doing the wild thing

k then was illegal in every state, Kimber. My thoughts haven’t changed. I’m just damn glad I won’t go t

ears ago, yo

nything else you would hav

a

sent a long stare toward the obvious erection abou

already s

er with hard insistence. She’d come under her own fingers last night to that mental picture. Heat flooded her cheeks. It made no sense, being aroused by a guy who was nothing mor

why you barely talked to

ea

’ve changed your mi

c. He nearly tore the skin off

to me like that?” He nodded. “And be

nk I’m in over my head.” Deke nodded. “I still

n place. I’ve put myself through nursing sch

derstand what you’re getting you

involved in a ménage a trois would mean. She’d read an erotic book this morning and found herself aroused by

ays been curious about him. He’d repelled her as much as he’d compelled her back in those days. The bigger factor was Jesse. She really missed him after his nearly four-year absence. Eve

er s

ke a groupie chasing a star, like a teenybopper with some silly adolescent, happily-ever-after fantasy. He couldn’t possibly underst

noyed. “You’re entitled to think tha

e deal,” he went on. “Come back to the house. Stay with

e her issue with Jesse. He’d insisted she couldn’t be what he needed, was too innocent for his lifestyle. She wa

knew he was a man of his word. He would teach her every

As in move in

ave individual demands they’ll want you to fulfill. Some guys are partial to morning sex. Others to midnight sex or anything in betwee

tiple times a day when she’d never had

ight man. Your favorite time

alone. Ever.” Like before, he was totally serious. He wouldn’t have sex with her if Luc wasn’t there and participating. What was that about

ay yes, you’

is eyes. “If Luc is ready and you

feeling that swirled delicious heat through her a