I pop out of bed and grab my jeans, quickly tugging them on. It only takes a second to step into the pair of shoes I have stored under my bunk and follow Desi to the door.

“Ready?” Desi looks at me like he’s not sure how much help I’ll be.

“Yeah, good to go.” I yawn.

“You don’t seem very awake.”

“I’m awake enough to go knock on a door.”

We head out of the fire station and into the warm, dark night. Desi is right, the new girl’s place is lit up. Through the windows, it looks vacant. It’s possible she just left the lights on in there by mistake. But, then again, it could be that some kids up to no good saw the truck in the driveway and broke in to investigate.

“Yeah, well, if there’s someone in there robbing that poor girl blind, I’ll need you to help me knock on more than just a door.” He punches his hand into his palm.

“I’m pretty sure that’s outta our jurisdiction, man. If someone is stupid enough to rip her off, we’ll call the cops.” I look from the house to my friend. His eyebrows knitted together and his mouth twists down.

“We’ll see.”

The night air has woken me up fully now. Lucky for me. Because if Desi is looking for a fight right now, I need to be sharp. I can see in the way he’s tensed up that he has no plans to call 9-1-1 and back off. He won’t be happy unless he’s the big dick-swinging hero out saving the damsel in distress from the nasty bad men.

I sigh. Loudly.

“What’s your problem?” He turns toward me and narrows his eyes.

“Nothing, man. Chill out, will ya? I just don’t feel like getting jumped by some little punks tonight. If the house is being robbed, let’s just let the boys in blue handle it.”

“I thought you had my back.” He crosses his arms over his tight, black T-shirt.

“I do. But I’m starting to think this is more about impressing that chick than anything.” I put my hands on my hips and realize for the first time that I didn’t even grab a shirt.

“I already told you I’m not going to go for her. I don’t want another girl getting between us. For real, man. I won’t let it happen.” A bit of the tension slides free from his face. Desi finally looks like he’s more relaxed.

“Well, I mean, if she wants to get between us, I’m not gonna complain.” I smirk. “I just don’t want her going on this secondhand ride”—I point to him—“and miss out on the main attraction over here.” I flex my muscles like a fitness model gunning for first place in front of the judges.

Desi laughs. We both do. As we step onto the new girl’s lawn, we both stand taller and our smiles fade away. It’s business time now.

“Hey, if you wanna go after whoever broke in, I’ve got your back.” I lower my voice.

“Yeah?”

“You got it.”

With that, we both stealthily move to the door and peer inside. I don’t see any signs of the beautiful woman who visited us earlier today or of anyone breaking in. Just like I thought, she probably kept the lights on by accident.

Desi makes a fist and thumps on the door angrily. “Police, open up!” he barks.

I raise an eyebrow but don’t say a word. He pounds on the door again and tilts his head, listening for the scurry of feet. We both stand in silence for a moment and I step down off the stairs, ready to abandon this mission.

“There’s no one in there.” I jerk my head toward the fire station. “Let’s go.”

“Wait, I hear something.”

I turn back and watch as the brown-haired beauty delicately pads across the floor and opens the door for us. Question marks dance in her big, soulful eyes as she holds the door handle with one hand and her small, silk robe closed with the other.

My feet take me back to the step without a single thought. All I can do is soak her in. From head to toe, she’s absolutely exquisite. Her features are so soft and feminine, she really is the perfect woman. It’s no wonder we’re both hot for her. And the way her robe is barely clinging to those curves, damn. It takes every ounce of determination I have not to stare. Although, with a body like that, she deserves to be admired and studied. She looks like one of those delicately chiseled Roman goddesses that’s been sculpted in stone. It’s like every inch of her curves was meant to be revealed and admired. She looked stunning before, when she came over to say hi this afternoon, but now, when she’s standing there looking like this… it’s almost too much. Heat blazes over the back of my neck.

“Is everything okay? Are the police here?” She looks from my face to Desi’s and back again.

“Sorry to scare you,” he soothes her. “We saw the lights on and thought someone might be robbing you.”

“Yeah, we didn’t mean to wake you,” I jump in.

“Oh, that’s so nice of you to check in.” She smiles and tucks her hair behind her ear. When she lets go of her robe, it gapes open. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t look at how her ample tits rose and fell with her breath.

I’d especially be lying if I said it wasn’t driving me fucking wild.

I glance over at Desi and he’s under the same hypnotic spell. I give him a small jab with my elbow, knocking him back to reality.

“Well, we should get to bed too. We just wanted to make sure everything is good here.” I give her a nod.

“Thanks, guys, I really do appreciate it.” She smiles. Her lips look so soft. They’re so full and perfectly curved. Just like the rest of her. She really is so sexy. I know there’s zero chance I’m going to get back to sleep without dealing with the growing erection pressing up against my zipper.

“No problem, Kelly.” Desi gives her a nod and we both head back to the station in silence.

There’s tension crackling around us as we both get lost in our own thoughts. I’m pretty sure Kelly has had the same effect on Desi as she has on me. I’m not sure how that’s going to play out. It’s going to be difficult to be neighbors with a woman we’re both so affected by. I’m not sure how we’re going to figure this out.

All I know is two things. The first is that we won’t fight over Kelly. No matter how much we want her. The second is that I need to take care of the ache building in my balls by stroking my cock and letting myself think about that tiny, thin robe dropping from Kelly’s shoulders and pooling on the floor.