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grip and she was okay with that. She was loose and limber and extremely satisfied.
     She hadn’t felt this good in a long time.
    His fingers stroked idly up and down her arm and she liked the sensation of those
     light touches.
    Never in a million years would she have guessed when she got up this morning that
     she would have had mind-blowing sex with Cole and then be snuggling with him afterward
     like an old married couple.
    It defied logic.
    “Why didn’t we do this a long time ago?” she asked.
    Cole’s grip on her arm temporarily tightened. “It certainly wasn’t for lack of desire
     on my part. I figured you’d have my balls if I ever suggested it.”
    She pushed upward so she could face him, and his hand fell down her back to rest possessively
     on her ass.
    “So why now? You didn’t come all the way to Denver just to say hello, so you obviously
     planned this.”
    “I wouldn’t say I planned it,” he corrected. “I hoped. I was tired of wondering whether
     this preoccupation was one-sided. I finally said fuck it and got on the plane. The
     worst you could do is tell me to fuck off and mock me for the rest of my life.”
    She laughed. “Would I do that?”
    He cupped her breast with his other hand and rubbed his thumb across her nipple. “You
     most certainly would.”
    Her breath hitched as he continued to toy with her nipple. It was a stiff peak straining
     toward him, begging for his touch. Her entire body was begging. It scared her because
     this was one man she would never be able to get enough of.
    It was like putting a ten-pound Hershey bar in front of a chocolate addict and expecting
     the person to stop after one bite.
    “So who were the guys at the bar?” Cole asked.
    She went from being deliciously mellow to instant agitation at the mention of Derek
     and company.
    “That bad?”
    She glanced at Cole, who was studying her curiously.
    “Not people I really want to talk about.”
    “Throw me a bone here, P.J. I know next to nothing about you and I have to admit,
     I’m not in the habit of going to bed with women I barely know.”
    She lifted an eyebrow.
    “You don’t believe me? Do you think I’m some kind of man whore?”
    She smiled at that. “Maybe not a man whore, but I’m sure you get your share of action
     from the ladies. There’s not a whole lot wrong with you.”
    “Somehow you make what seems like a compliment sound more like an insult.”
    She sighed and sat up, crossing her legs so she could sit next to him. He remained
     lying down so that she was looking down at him, her knees just touching his side.
    “It’s complicated.”
    “Aren’t most things?”
    She couldn’t argue with that.
    “They’re from the S.W.A.T. team I was on. I was . . . involved with Derek.”
    “Is that the guy you decked?”
    She winced. “Saw that much, huh?”
    “Kind of hard to miss. Pretty impressive swing, by the way. He’s much bigger than
     you and you nearly flattened him.”
    That made her grin. Cole was just . . . comfortable. She liked being around him. He
     was easy to talk to even if she rarely talked about anything personal. Maybe it was
     why she was careful not to broach those kinds of topics with him, because he was so
     easy to talk to that she’d no doubt find herself blurting out everything.
    “Yeah, that was Derek.”
    “So I take it the breakup wasn’t exactly amicable.”
    She sobered. “Not at all.”
    She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She’d never told anyone about what had
     happened, even though she knew her current teammates were curious as to why she left
     S.W.A.T.
    “Derek was dirty and I refused to look the other way. He was stealing drug money and
     later even drugs themselves when S.W.A.T. was called in to assist in drug busts. Instead
     of logging everything, he’d pocket stuff from the scene when things were still chaotic.
     I don’t know how long it had been going on. But one night I saw him pocket cash along
     with a bag of