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slow and sultry. Deliberate. Beyond sexy. They both were.
    It was all too much and not enough. Visions of the three of them tangled up all night flashed through her mind. Heat and lust and sin. Everything she wasn’t. Everything she’d never had.
    Trent pulled away and she gasped. “I can’t do this.”
    “That’s not what your body says.”
    Holly squinted into the dark. Trent’s brown eyes swam in his face like two endless whirlpools and she could see herself falling. Drowning.
    She licked her lips. “My body’s not in charge.”
    “Maybe it should be.”
    The water rippled around her and Trent disappeared. I can’t do this. I shouldn’t be doing this. She turned and hauled herself out of the water. All she could think about was getting out of there and giving her brain a chance to catch up to her racing heart. Who kisses two men like that? Why would they want her to?
    She ran across the patio to her pile of discarded clothes. Let them see her naked ass. She had to get out of there.
    “Leaving so soon?”
    She snatched everything up off the stone and clutched the pile to her chest. “I have to work early in the morning.”
    Ian rested his forearms on the edge of the pool a foot away. The light from the living room cast shadows across his face as he raised an eyebrow. “You sure that’s why you’re leaving?”
    “No. I’m not sure of anything at the moment. I’ll see you later.”
    “You can count on it.”
    Holly hustled away from him and down the path to the guest house. She knew she was being childish by running out on the guy who’d given her a great place to live just because things got weird.
    But she wasn’t a teenager anymore and playing naked pool games didn’t get her anything except an unsatisfied throb deep inside.
    She turned the knob on the front door and let herself in. It shut behind her and she rested her bare back against the wood to catch her breath. She could taste the ghost of Trent’s kiss on her lips. Feel the shadow of Ian’s body pressed up against her.
    A thrill coursed through her. Holly couldn’t claim to be a good girl—she’d had her share of boyfriends since high school. A few even pushed her to the edge.
    But she’d never had the same kind of rush. Two men wanting her, kissing her. Needing her. It lit something up. Turned her cold, empty insides warm.
    She closed her eyes and sagged to the floor. No matter how much she denied it, Holly wanted more. Their hands and tongues all over her. Their heat igniting in the dark. Damn it. She wanted to burn.

C HAPTER F IVE

    HOLLY

    W HY DID I get myself into this?
    Holly toweled off her hair and hurried to get dressed. In the dark of the night with the buzz of alcohol and unexpected attention, she’d been turned on and more than a little confused.
    In the harsh light of a Monday morning? Pissed was more accurate. Ian had taken advantage. Throwing his guest house at her like scraps for a starving dog then coming on to her and trying to get…what? A threesome? He probably thought she owed him one.
    Gah . He was as bad as her mother. She’d thought money was the cure to everything, too. The minute she’d sunk her claws into old Mr. Mosterly was the minute she’d forgotten all about being a mother.
    Holly couldn’t compete with trips to Aspen and diamond necklaces. Show houses in Midnight Cove. Lavish parties for celebrities and rich vacationers. In one year, her mom had gone from an ordinary wife of a lawyer to queen of the grown-up mean girls. A society woman with no time to share custody of an awkward teenager.
    Holly huffed and put on her makeup. Ian was just like her. That party? She shook her head. I can’t believe I let myself get sucked in . The lifestyle of the rich and famous wasn’t for her. No way. Give her a kitchen, a tiny apartment, and a nice cat, and she’d be set.
    She stalked out of the bathroom and yanked open a drawer. Grabbing an armful of clothes, she walked over to the bed and dumped them into