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Chapter 27 With Me Or Against Me
The sun was yet to rise in the morning, and the day was slowly turning bright when Cole stirred in his bedchamber. His eyes resting on the canopy above his bed and for a moment or two, he forgot where he was.
But it took only a few moments for his eyes to adjust, and he remembered where he was and who he was sharing his bed with. With a curse, Cole sat up on the bed and glared at the woman who had turned his bedchamber to a feminine joke.
Her body clad in a silk night rail was twisted and her legs were tangled with his. With everything that had happened, Cole didn't think he had the patience for a woman who didn't know how to sleep right. A woman who had been spying at him in the lake! Even though she had denied having spied at him. Cole didn't believe her. Who did she think she was deceiving?
He had seen that sultry look in her eyes, and how she had been looking at him with open wide adoration. The scenario at the
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