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her element.
    “None of my business?” She flinched at Colt’s heated reply. “Is that what you just said? Let me tell you something, Kylie Halston, you made it my business when you brought that son of a bitch into our house and let him abuse you. You listen to me now and you listen good. Your willful, impulsive, reckless days are at an end.”
    “What’s that supposed to mean?” She was taken aback by the anger in Colt’s face. Never in all their years of friendship had he lost his temper with her and she didn’t doubt she’d tested him plenty. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Heath coming toward her and was shocked to see the same intense look in his gaze.
    “It means,” Colt said, stepping closer, “that from this point on, you answer to us.”
    She burst into laughter at his haughty reply. “Ha!” she yelled before common sense kicked in. Neither man seemed pleased by her dismissal.
    Heath reached out and ran the back of his knuckles down her cheek. She gasped at how much the simple touch affected her. “Ah, Kylie. It would seem you need a bit of convincing.”
    “Can you two please stop talking in code? I haven’t understood a word you’ve said since I got home. It’s like I’ve dropped into the Twilight Zone.”
    Heath’s hand stopped caressing her face and ventured around the nape of her neck where his grip tightened and he pulled her closer to him. “You want plain-speaking? Fine. The terms of our friendship are on hold. For the rest of this weekend, you aren’t simply our roommate or our buddy. You’re going to become our lover as well. From this moment on, you’re ours.”
    Speech seemed to desert her. One word kept resonating in her brain. The only word she seemed able to process amidst the rest.
    “Ours?”
    Heath grinned as he repeated the word. “Ours.” Then he bent down and kissed her.

Chapter Four
    Colt watched Heath kiss Kylie as if his life depended on it, and he couldn’t help but recognize the same sense of desperation in himself. Her resistance to Heath’s kiss only lasted a second and Colt grinned as her hands slowly began to creep up his friend’s chest and around his neck. He’d never studied a kiss this close up—at least not one he wasn’t participating in. He was struggling with the impact it was having on his libido. Damn, it was making him hot.
    Sensing the kiss was coming to an end, he reached over and pulled her toward him. “That looked pretty good. Give me a taste.”
    She never missed a beat and offered him the same luscious response she’d given Heath. Their girl was nothing if not resilient. Most women would be screaming the walls down if they’d been pounced on like this, but instead, here was Kylie clinging to him and playing tongue tag as if they’d been intimate for years.
    As he pulled away, he placed a playful kiss on her nose and watched her blush in response.
    She took two steps back and he started to follow, but she threw up her hands to ward him off.
    “Oh no—no more of that until I get some answers.”
    Colt nodded. “Good point. We have a few things we need to get straight before we get down to the fun stuff.”
    She stiffened slightly at his words, but he simply took her hand and tugged her toward the kitchen table, helping her into a chair.
    “Drink your wine.” He pushed the glass at her and she all but gulped it down.
    “Not so fast,” Heath admonished. “You’re not going to get drunk.”
    “Given the way you two are acting, I’m thinking drunk would be an excellent state for me tonight.”
    Colt fought against the chuckle growing in his chest. God, she was a spunky little thing.
    Heath, however, didn’t seem to be amused. “I mean it, Kylie. That stunt you pulled the other night was damn stupid.”
    “We are not discussing that subject.” She stood up as if to leave, but Colt rose first and pushed her back down.
    “Well, darlin’, I beg to differ on that point. In fact, that episode the other night seems to be