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pullin' her tank top over her head, "and I'm finishing it."  She pulls on her skirt and then her high heels.  "I'll see you in a few days."  She walks to the doorway and stops to look back at me.  "Don't call me."
    "Ruby Sue," I protest.
    "Goodnight, Colt."
    I watch her disappear from the room, and then I listen to her footsteps until she's downstairs and out the door.  After her car leaves, I walk down to the kitchen and let Mack out.  He sniffs around the path that Ruby Sue had just taken and follows it straight to the door.  He turns and looks at me, and I swear he has a grin on his big, saggy face.
    "Yeah, she's gone.  You happy?"
    He comes over and pushes his nose under my hand so that I pet him.  I scratch behind his ears and watch as he closes his eyes.  "Let's go to bed, Mack."
    We race up the stairs, but Mack is gettin' slower in his old age, and I beat him by a mile.  I even have to help him up into the bed.  It makes me sad lyin' there and thinkin' that someday he won't be around.  "You have to live at least fifty more years, okay, buddy?"
    Mack licks my face.  I laugh and pet him for a few more minutes before he falls asleep and starts snorin'.  Starin' up at the ceiling, I wish I could fall asleep with so little effort.  My thoughts are plagued with images of Penny.  Why the hell is she here, and why does it feel like my world is beginnin' to change?  I liked things the way they were, but she affects me like no other person.  I almost kissed her twice now, and since then I haven't been able to stop thinkin' about what her lips would feel like against mine.  Her soft, curvy body drives me crazy, and I want to touch and lick every single inch of her skin.  Every time I touch her it's almost like I can remember my hands being there, and it feels like an electrical current runnin' through my fingertips.
    "Fuck," I mutter as I realize I'm tentin' the sheets.  I stare down at my cock and mutter, "Now you decide to work?"
    Frustrated, I roll to my side and try to think about baseball and anything else that would be considered a boner killer .  Nevertheless, my mind keeps driftin' back to Penny.  Grumblin', I toss and turn for what feels like forever.  It takes a few hours, but I eventually drift off to sleep more sexually frustrated than I've ever been in my entire life.

 
     
     
     
     
     
     
    CHAPTER 5
     
     
    COLTON
     
    I STIR IN my sleep, aware of moanin' comin' from my downstairs.  Mumblin' and cursin' Buddy under my breath for bringin' another girl over to my place without my permission, I attempt to roll over and go back to sleep.
    But then I hear Penny gigglin'.
    I bolt straight up in bed.  I growl as I look over at the clock.  It's seven in the mornin'.  Considerin' I didn't fall asleep until a few hours ago, I'm not in the best of moods.
    I shrug on a t-shirt and a pair of jeans over my boxers and make my way downstairs.
    "Oh, my God, Penny!" Buddy moans from the kitchen.
    They're doing it in my kitchen?
    "Do you like that?" she asks, breathlessly.
    "Oh, yeah.  That's great.  You're amazing."  Buddy groans loudly, but it's muffled like his mouth is full of somethin'.
    Growin' angrier with every passin' second, I quicken my descent down the steps and round the corner of the kitchen just in time to catch them…eatin' dessert?
    I blink a few times and take in my surroundings.  My kitchen looks like a bakery threw up in it.  Pans, sugar, flour, dough and other bakin' supplies litter my counters along with a countless number of pies, cakes and cupcakes in different stages of bein' finished.
    Mack is stretched out on the floor lookin' content.  He raises his head slowly and gives me a tired look before ploppin' his head back down onto the linoleum.  So much for being a good watchdog.   He didn't even let me know people were in my house.  He really doesn't like strangers, so I'm surprised he didn't bark like crazy when Penny came in.  He always lets me know when Ruby Sue