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Go on the offensive

"Colt? What are you doing here?"

He patiently returned her cool stare "I’m here to ask why I haven’t seen you"

She dropped the soap on the counter and pointed to the boxes scattered around the showrooave her that you’re-full-of-shit eyebrow lift

"And you were out of town"

"I was in Guernsey for two lousy days, India, two days in which I didn’t hear from you once"

"Hey, bucko, the phone lines run both ways"

"Is that so?" Colt began to stalk her "I thought ere beyond this fightin’ just so we can rowled

"Besides, didn’t we talk about not spending every waking reed"

India’s pulse doubled He’d used that ainst the tile in his shower and screwed her until the water ran cold and her vocal cords shorted out fro with hi you retain the upper hand, India

Right And she so had the upper hand when the man had her in full retreat until her spine hit the wall

"Got nothin’ to say?"

"Fine What do you want?"

"You," he said tersely, slapping his hands on either side of her head His entle, wasn’t ave, and seduced--all at the same time

It was a kiss that smacked of ownership

It was a kiss that knocked her for a loop

It was a kiss that was four long days overdue

After he’d thoroughly scrambled her brain cells, Colt whispered, "Sweet Jesus, you piss me off soht so I can show you how much"

She ducked under his arm "I can’t"

"Why not?"

Tell hiive her time to decide "What? Are you sick of aze roamed over her "Are you sick?"

"Sort of"

"Explain"

She huffed out a nervous streaot my period after that last time in the shower"

"That’s why you’ve been scarce?"

"Yes"

He looked utterly confused "Why didn’t you just tell me?"

"Because it’s not usually a topic for discussion between ross and I’ht I’d spare you"

Colt kissed her hard and quick "I don’t care I want to be with you no matter what your mood or what your hormones do"

"Really?"

"Really We’re way beyond the first dating stage, Indy, and don’t pretend what’s going on between us is only about sex"

"Oh yeah, Mr ‘I Disagreed’?"

"Don’t getnekkid with you" He kissed her "All" He kissed her again "The" Another kiss

"Darinned "But I’d be just as happy hangin’ with you as bangin’ you"

"How poetic, McKay"

"I aet the shine back on old hoop in her eyebrow "Co pad and a bag of Hershey’s Kisses I’ll even watch chick flicks with you"

"How’d you know--"

"That you crave Hershey’s Kisses that time of the month?

We’ve been friends for almost three years I’ve noticed all your little quirks and your hor?"

"Because I was too entleentlemanly ways…" He brushed his mouth across the crown of her head "Sometimes I think I know you better than you know yourself"

He was so damn sweet that she teared up "Colt--"

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