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reiterated. “You invite me in, it’ll be because you want me to
spend the night with you. Not because you lost a bet. And darlin ’,
that day will come soon. I’m not worried about it,” he said as he winked at me.
    God, he was so infuriating. Not only
was he now denying me what I’d started to look forward to, but he was
maddeningly arrogant.
    “Suit yourself,” I huffed.
    “Come here, babe,” he requested
quietly, still straddling his bike.
    I went to him. When I was in reaching
distance, his arm snaked around my waist and pulled me flush against him. “You’ve
got the sweetest mouth,” he murmured, pressing his lips to mine. I made a low noise
in my throat and the kiss took on a life of its own. His tongue slid into my
mouth sending tingles down my spine and legs, and his hand slid into my hair
pulling gently. I wrapped my arms around his shoulders and gave him everything
I had with a kind of abandon I didn’t know was in me.
    “Shit, I have to go now,” he growled
pulling free of me, his eyes shouldering.
    I nodded, feeling slightly shaky on my
feet.
    “Sleep well,” he said, starting the
bike up again as I backed away.
    “You, too.” I smiled and watched him as
he roared off down my street.
    Apparently the sidewalk had turned to
air as I walked to my apartment. My limbs seemed to move independently from the
rest of my body as I turned off the alarm and began to get ready for bed. I’d
never felt so completely blissed out in my entire life. I fell asleep smiling,
something I’d never done before. I still had my hesitations about Cole and
there was still so much to consider, but in that moment after such a great
night, all I could think about was how happy he made me.

 
    Chapter Five
    I woke up to the alarm clanging loudly
throughout our apartment. It took me a moment to place it before ice slid
through my veins. I prayed it was just Kat forgetting the code, but deep down I
knew differently. I grabbed the baseball bat I kept underneath the bed and
opened my bedroom door hesitantly. Kat was doing the same, and I gave her a
wide-eyed look. Clearly someone else had triggered the alarm. The front door
stood wide open and my heart hammered loudly in my veins. I took a quick visual
sweep of the apartment. Whoever had tried to get in, the alarm must have scared
them off. I went over and turned it off, my hands shaking so much that it took
me a couple of tries.
    “We have to call the police, Scar,”
Kat whispered behind me, her eyes wide.
    “I know,” I sighed in resignation.
    “I’ll put my name on the statement,”
she said, trying to assure me.
    “They’ll still want mine, too. It’s okay.
It’s inevitable,” I sighed. Plus I had to face the fact that the person I’d
been avoiding all this time and the break-ins were probably related anyway. The
thought was not a comforting one.
    The police showed up fifteen minutes
later, two cars and three officers. It felt overwhelming to have so much
attention, and I shivered in my shorts and cami ,
wishing I’d thought to put on a robe.
    I was dumbfounded when Cole stalked
into the apartment as the police were finishing up our statements. He eyed me
for a moment before disappearing into my room and returning with my robe. I
gratefully pulled it around myself and looked up at him beyond relieved, if not
surprised to see him.
    “What are you doing here?” I asked
quietly.
    “We’ll talk later,” he replied firmly,
turning to one of the officers to ask for details. Their conversation was just
a blur of sound to me as I tried to make sense of everything that was
happening.
    I realized with a jolt that I should
just leave town. As much as it pained me, I was bringing nothing but trouble
for Kat and now for Cole.
    “I’m stayin ’,”
Cole said firmly once the police had taken their reports and pulled away in
their cars. The apartment felt eerily quiet with all the commotion over.
    I saw Kat sag with relief at Cole’s
decree and I nodded, grateful