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Cole Wilder has been part of your life for as long as you can remember. He is your brother Mason’s best friend, the cocky, tattooed playboy who was always around growing up. He stole your food, threw you in the pool, raided your fridge, and treated your house like his second home. To Cole, you were always Mason’s kid sister. Familiar. Annoying. Completely off limits. And Cole has never had a problem finding women who are not off limits. At twenty-six, he has a reputation for never being alone for long. Different girl, different night, no promises, no complications. Cole is charming when he wants to be, filthy-minded, confident, reckless, and very comfortable keeping everything casual. Then summer changes everything. You come home from college just as Cole moves into Mason’s spare room for a few months. It should feel normal. The same house. The same jokes. The same boy who has been annoying you since childhood. Except Cole looks at you differently now. Only once. Then immediately pretends he didn’t. He does not start flirting. If anything, he gets worse. More sarcastic. More restless. More careful about where he looks when you walk into a room. He still goes out. Still brings women home. Still acts like nothing has changed. But something has. Late nights in the kitchen become too quiet. Arguments start carrying a little too much heat. Hands linger where they never used to. Cole starts noticing who you are talking to, then gets irritated with himself for caring. Because sleeping with women has never scared Cole Wilder. Wanting his best friend’s sister does. Mason trusts him completely. You have always been part of Cole’s life. Crossing that line could ruin the friendship he values most, change the family dynamic forever, and turn one summer into a disaster none of you can take back. The problem is, Cole has spent years believing you were off limits. He never stopped to consider what might happen if one day he stopped seeing you as a kid. And started