Page 55 of Sweet and Wild

His grin is wide as he leans in to kiss my lips. “No, I guess we didn’t. But we’re gonna be doing a lot more in the future.”

“Well, there ain’t nothing wrong with making up for lost time.” I wink and lead him over to the bed. We’re not going anywhere until this storm blows over, and there’s no place else I’d rather be than right here in Colt’s arms.

CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX

Lemon

In the morning, I wake to the sound of horse hooves thundering toward the cabin, and a beat later, West busts through the door. His jaw drops open as he takes in Colt and I in bed, naked but covered by blankets, and several condom packets littering the floor.

“Oh my God, West!” I protest, clutching the blanket tightly to my chest. “Doesn’t anyone knock around here anymore?”

“You gotta be fuckin’ shittin’ me?”

Colt’s sleeping face down on the pillow but he stirs and opens his eyes. The cutest smile I’ve ever seen slips across that delectable mouth of his and I smile right back. That is, I’m smiling until Wyatt, Cash, and Wade come stomping through the front door of the cabin.

“Oh, gross. You’re doin’ our sister again?” Wade complains.

“What the hell happened to my window?” Wyatt demands before finding the open bottle of Fireball. “What the fuck, you guys drank my Fireball?”

“Do y’all mind?”

“Nope,” Cash says with a grin, staring me up and down.

“Oh my God, get out!”

“We thought you were dead,” West says straight-faced. “Now I see that maybe that logic was preemptive, because I’m gonna fuckin’ kill you for screwing my sister when we thought you’d been killed by a damn tornado.” West lunges forward and pulls Colt from the bed, jumping on top of him—despite the fact that Colt is naked—he pounds his fist into Colt’s face.

I wrap the blanket around my body and jump on my brother’s back, pummeling him with all my might. “West William Winchester, you get off the man I love. Right now!”

The whole room freezes. The whole room except Wyatt. He picks up my discarded panties and wrinkles his nose. “What the hell are these?”

“Alright all of you, out!”

“What the fuck is going on here?” West says. “You better start talking, Colton Hayes, or I’m gonna drag your naked ass out into the pasture and kick it all the way to Austin.”

“You will do no such thing!” I chide and stand, straightening my hair as I address the room. “All of you listen up ’Cause I’m only gonna say this once. Colt and I are together now.”

“We are?” Colt says with a shit-eating grin, and I give him a look that says he better shut his damn mouth beforeItake him out to pasture and kick his ass.

“We are. No one is kicking anyone’s ass. If you don’t like it, too damn bad. I left him once and it was the biggest mistake of my life, so I ain’t ever letting him go.”

“Jesus.” Wade rubs the back of his neck. “When did she get to be just as scary as Mama?”

“Hasn’t she always been like that?” Wyatt whispers back.

“Now,” I continue. “Y’all are gonna march your butts outside and ride on back to the ranch. Colt and I are staying a little while longer.”

“Yes, ma’am,” Colt says, pressing his fingertips to his bloody lip.

West looks as mad as a cut snake, but he and the boys all file out one by one, and shut the door behind them.

“And leave us a damn horse!” I shout.

Colt groans from the floor and climbs to his feet. “I am not ashamed to say I am so fuckin’ hot for you right now.”

“Well good, because you’re not the only one who gets to wear the Wranglers in this relationship.”

He tucks his fingers into my blanket dress and pulls me closer. “Don’t I know it.”

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