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the far end of the pool, he curled like the competitive swimmer he’d been and shot toward the opposite side again.
    Chrissi watched him, her skin getting hotter, her belly cramping, not from any nausea but from desire so strong she knew she was past resisting.
    She heard a scrape beside her, felt hands cup the notches of her hips and pull.
    For all of a second, she resisted, and then she melted against Cade, her breath leaving in a long sigh. She didn’t want to be this easy. But what was the point? “Cade?” she whispered, giving a little moan as he kissed her cheek, her temple.
    “Yes, baby?” he said, gliding his hands over her belly, then up to cup her breasts through her clothing.
    “Go away.”

Chapter Three
    As soon as Cade withdrew, she swayed, dizzying need swamping her. She caught herself, shivering, and wrapped her arms around herself for comfort as she watched Ezra turn and push off the side of the pool to return.
    She couldn’t help herself, she stared, her gaze roaming his tall frame, her mouth drying as his arms cut through the water, his powerful shoulders rippling with each slice.
    The patio, partially shaded by trees and enclosed by a tall rock wall, had always seemed so cozy and safe. She inhaled the scent of chlorine, felt the slight breeze whispering through the oak trees waft against her hot face, and couldn’t maintain her anger beneath the assault on all her senses.
    This moment was inevitable. An itch that had to be scratched one last time before she could let go of the disappointment and yearning she’d harbored for all these years.
    She slipped off her shoes and tugged her blouse from her trousers. She’d known where the day was leading from the first hiss of her radiator. Hell, she’d known she’d have to face up to this ever since she’d given Ezra the slip when he’d left her in the girls’ bathroom after that fateful hook-up. She’d been running scared for a long, long time.
    Ezra swam to the steps and stood at the bottom, water sluicing down his body. He wiped more water from his face and held her stare. “Baby, you sure about this? Are you really ready?”
    The banked heat in his eyes, the tension revealed in the flex of his arms and chest muscles, set her heart fluttering. “Of course not,” she rasped. “But I’m hot and bothered—by you, by your damn brothers. And I’ve had enough. We end this.”
    His ice-chip eyes darkened to a stormy gray. “That what you think this weekend is about? Ending it?”
    “I don’t care what you three think is supposed to happen.” Not a lie, because she couldn’t think of anything beyond the expanse of bronze skin, the crest of the cock rising from the water. “Right now, all I can think about is how much I ache,” she said, her voice hoarse.
    Chrissi unbuttoned her blouse and let it slide off her arms to whisper to the flagstones. She reached up and opened the clasp holding up her hair, and shook her head, enjoying the way the heavy fall trailed across the tops of her shoulders. Then she shimmied out of her trousers. When she stood in only her underwear, she stepped down into the pool, wading toward Ezra, whose hot glance raked her body, eliciting shivers that slid in ripples across her skin.
    Standing in front of him, water lapping at her waist, she lifted her chin. “I don’t want to make any decisions,” she whispered. “I don’t want to think at all.”
    Ezra nodded and slowly lifted a hand to grasp her arm and turn her. With her back to him, she breathed deeply while he unfastened her bra and drew it off, letting it float away in the water. Then his fingers slid beneath the band of elastic at her hips and pulled down her panties.
    He walked around her, staring at everything he’d bared, then slowly lifted his glance to lock with hers. “You’re prettier than I remembered.”
    “Was I so homely then?” she quipped, although she felt anything but humorous—her body was too tight, her need too strong.
    He gave a