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She didn’t tease him like she had for far too many years She was more contained, quieter And he realized he missed the spitfire she had been By now, they should have been arguing loud enough to draw attention, while she drove him crazy with a combination of lust and exasperation

Instead, she was standing at the glass sliding doors, staring into the distance reflectively as her fingers gripped the drapes at the side

"I think you’re wrong, Kelly" He leaned into the back of the barstool he was sitting in, one hand gripping the wheel as the boat plowed through the water toward the cove

"About what?" She turned back to hiood humor

"I think I deserve to see you stripped down to so that bastard win"

She rolled her eyes before turning back to the scenery outside the boat

"You don’t know everything, Rowdy," she retorted, but there was no conviction in her voice

"I know you" He began unbuttoning his own shirt as he glanced at her, his cock throbbing in delight as she glanced back at him, her eyes shadoith interest

Within seconds he’d stripped the shirt, tossing it back on the chair behind hirin

She turned to hi her arms over her breasts as she lifted her brow

"You could at least lose the jeans," he pointed out "That shirt is big enough to cover two of you No one would know"

Four years ago she had worn that tiny little bikini all da around hi et her out of her pants

"You’re pushing," she warned, her voice holding a subtle snap

"You haven’t seen rowled in return "Do you think I didn’t take the ti since that bastard attacked you? You stopped dressing like the girl I knew and started dressing like your darandmother instead You’re scared"

"Well, duh!" she ure Maybe I should just prance around naked for you, Rowdy" She wasn’t really angry, yet Her eyes were sparkling though, her cheeks flushing with irritation

"That would work for rinned wolfishly "Let’s try it and see if it ork for you Take yours off and I’ll take hter was soft, knowing

"For you, baby, anytime" He winked

"A far cry from your answer in the past years" The shade of mockery in her voice wasn’t lost on hiet into bed with irl suspicious"

"No doubt," he agreed, grinning back at her "There’s no secret there, sweetheart I wasn’t about to take a kid to h for you, I at least wanted you to beinto But I had no intentions of not co back for you"

Surprise reflected in her eyes

"And if I decided I wanted so at the confidence he knew she was reading in his tone

"Then Dawg or Natches would have taken care of it until I ed easily "I put a claio, Kelly You just didn’t realize it"

"Soames that your buddies shared in?"

Ohhh, noas that just a little shade of jealousy there? He watched her closely frorin in place

"Sex galanced back at her "You couldn’t handle them"

"Who says I couldn’t handle thehtened and placed her hands on her hips "You never gave me the chance to try"

He snorted "Don’t let your mouth write checks your body can’t cash, baby Don’t darelook, one she i here Not yet And before he started, he wanted her aware of the rules

"I’m not stupid" She pushed her hands into her jeans pockets, staring back at hier, of arousal "I paid attention to your reputation a long tiood He didn’t want her shying away from him; he wanted her curious, interested He wanted her horny

"Did you now?" He ran his hand over his chest as he guided the houseboat into a turn that would take it off the main section of the lake and into ato the cove "And you still teasedme Maybe you decided you can’t handle it"

She rolled her eyes "You’re being a prick"

"I’ative jerk "You listened to the ruh"