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in years.”
    Grey snapped his stare off Sirus’s smile, and narrowed his gaze. “What the hell do you mean by that?” His voice dropped into low, clipped territory as his mind started spinning. “Did you know I was coming here? Did Kelsie set me up?” Grey glanced down at the sink, and then pushed right into Sirus’s space, bumping his chest into Sirus’s crossed arms.
    Storm clouds brewed in Sirus’s eyes, but Grey couldn’t care and didn’t dare back down. He leaned into Sirus until he had the bigger man bowed back over the table behind him. “You fucking have water. I just washed my hands. You obviously didn’t need to stay at my place last night. What the hell is going on here?”
    The clouds erupted and Sirus moved fast, grabbing Grey’s upper arms and spinning them around so that Grey’s spine dug into the workbench this time. “What the hell is going on here,” Sirus’s low, intimidating octave rivaled Grey’s, “is that you just called me a liar.” He grasped the table on either side of Grey’s hips, trapping him in place. “You sure you want to do that, friend ?”
    Heat lightning charged the air around them, making the workroom feel like a sauna in the middle of snow. Every inch of Grey’s skin hummed with vitality, something he hadn’t felt inside him in forever. He didn’t dare let his body shiver and give himself away. He looked Sirus in the eyes, and didn’t flinch. “You take a good hard look at me, Wilder,” Grey breathed so heavily their chests touched with every intake of breath, “and you decide if you see anything close to a man who can be intimated living inside me.”
    “Maybe you’re not intimidated by me…” Sirus broke eye contact and turned his head down, perusing, just as Grey challenged him to do. It felt like forever, and Grey had to work like the devil to control the shiver that wanted to work its way through him as he wondered if this man would find him lacking. Sirus finally put his full attention back on Grey’s face, and deep charcoal swirled in the depths of his gray eyes. “…but you damn well want something male living inside you.” Cool confidence emanated from Sirus’s very pores, and it didn’t even look as if his heart pounded very fast. “I think we established that around five a.m. this morning.”
    Grey never played from a position of defense. That was a losing strategy. Emotions long unused spiraled nearly out of control in him though, and he attacked before thinking, before assessing, before predicting the response he would get from his opponent. “And maybe you want it just as much,” he taunted, “which is why you tucked tail and ran home.”
    White hot fire flared in Sirus’s eyes, and Grey knew he had misread his opponent.
    A fatal mistake.

Chapter Four
    Sirus took in the arrogance surrounding Greyson Cole like a full-body cloak and wanted to punch the bastard.
    “You fucking smug suit,” he said, his voice whisper soft, but deadly. He fumed inside and had no idea how he managed to keep his outward appearance so still and calm.
    “You set your sister up with your best friend for a week in your cabin, and you automatically think she’s gonna turn around and do the same thing to you?” Awareness flared in Grey’s eyes, and Sirus chalked up one point for the home team. “That’s right, Kelsie is my friend, and she did tell me how she and John ended up together. And while she might want to return the favor one day, what in the hell makes you think for one second I would agree to do it? I never even saw your face before yesterday afternoon.
    Maybe you go around fucking everything with a tight ass that likes cock, but that isn’t me.” Sirus let his gaze drop and linger over the fine lines of Grey’s body that no amount of winter clothing could hide, and he cursed under his breath at the waste of such a thing of perfection attached to such an asshole of a person. “I actually like to know the person I’m screwing, and I like