“He’s Ethan’s best friend. And the man you raised would never be friends with someone who wouldn’t treat his mama right.”
Sam
Emma’s words played over in her mind all afternoon. But even after hours of worrying and obsessing over the issue, she was no closer to a solution when she pulled into her driveway that evening than she had been at lunch.
Sitting in her car with her favorite drive-home playlist still blasting from the speakers, Sam stared at her front door. Dylan’s car was already in the driveway, meaning he was probably inside. Was he waiting for her the way he had been the night before? The thought of coming home to someone who was actually eager to see her definitely wasn’t off-putting.
Ugh. Emma had made it all sound sosimpleat lunch. But how could it be simple when one wrong decision had the potential to hurt the person she loved most in the world?
A chime rang through the car, alerting her to an incoming message. Picking up her phone, she snorted out a laugh as she read Emma’s text.
Emma:
Get out of the damn car and go get your freak on.
The short command was followed by a hand emoji, then a peach, and finally an eggplant in a perfectly clear message.Get spanked and get fucked.
Sam:
I’m going, I’m going. Pushy bitch.
Emma:
Only with the people I love. Have a few orgasms for me!!
“Ridiculous,” Sam muttered as she killed the engine. But suddenly her huge problem didn’t seem quite so huge. Get spanked and get fucked. Why couldn’t it be that simple?
Maybe it could be. Maybe she just needed to set some ground rules with Dylan and they could both enjoy some no-strings-attached kinky sex for a few weeks before going their separate ways at the end of the summer.
He was exactly where she’d expected—but definitelynothoped—to find him, seated on her couch with his long legs stretched out in front of him, a glass of wine in one hand and a book in the other, a pair of reading glasses perched on the end of his nose.
No man had any goddamned right to look that damn hot just sitting on a couch.
The front door slammed behind her and he looked up from his book, and the welcoming smile that spread across his face cranked him up from hot to fucking irresistible.
Dropping her bags unceremoniously by the door, she made a beeline straight for him, taking the wine from him and placing it on the coffee table before straddling his legs. “I’m not drunk.”
“That’s good news for your bottom since you were just behind the wheel.”
“I’m not drunk,” she repeated, grabbing his book and tossing it onto the couch beside them. “And I want you to fuck me. Now.”
“Thank god.”
When he leaned forward, she pressed a finger to his lips and put on the sternest expression she could manage with every fiber of her being humming with desire. “We need some rules. Spanking and fucking are on the table. But no falling in love, and whatever happens between us, we don’t drag Ethan into the middle of it. Deal?”
Grabbing her wrist, he pressed a kiss to her finger before pulling it away. “Counteroffer.”
“Dylan—”
“You give me the summer. Let me prove to you that I can be the Daddy you need. Rules, punishments, sex—all of it. I want all of you, Samantha, and I’m not going to settle for table scraps. But,” he pressed forward when she opened her mouth to protest, “if at any time between now and the end of the summer you genuinely believe this isn’t working, that we aren’t fuckingmadefor each other the way I know we are, you can tell me and I promise to walk away. And as far as Ethan, if you pull the plug, he never has to know. Nothing has to change between the three of us if you call it off. Deal?”
“What about if you call it off? What then?”
“Sam, I promise you that if you let me get my hands on you, I’m never going to let go.”
It wasn’t the easy, no-strings-attached arrangement she’d had in mind. But it was everything she’d ever dreamed of, beingpresented to her on a silver platter. So the only real question was, did she trust Dylan to keep his word? To not make things messy when he finally came to his senses and broke things off?
As she sat there, staring into those gilded green eyes, it hit her. If there was one person in the world she trusted to keep his word, it was the man staring up at her, waiting to give her everything.
