Austin cut off my slightly ramblingexplanation when he sat up and hugged me tight. “We’ll help. You don’t have todo that.”
Soft murmurs of agreement went through theroom. Their pity ate at me, so I forced out a chuckle. “You just want a chanceto play with a flogger or paddle on someone again.”
He giggled, releasing me enough to give mea smacky kiss. As I groaned, he stretched back out. “That would be wonderful.I’m going to have the best fantasies for weeks just on that image alone.”
He was insane.
“I didn’t say I was going to let youhit…him.” I snorted when Austin giggled.
“That’s not what you wanted to say.” Hegrinned and squirmed, nearly knocking over Jonah’s drink. “You don’t want tolet me hit your alpha…Master…oh, there are so many sexy things you could callhim.”
I hated it when he was right.
“I don’t even know where our relationshipis going. Don’t be silly.”
He laughed. “I’m not silly. I’m dramaticand perfect.”
Rolling my eyes, I snorted. “If you thinkI’m going to agree with that, you’ve got a screw loose.”
“Don’t get us distracted.” Dakota was stillwatching me like I was a curious bug. “He really stayed hard?”
“Obsessive much?” Ignoring him, I focusedback on the rest of the guys.
“Do you think I should have said I’d doit?” I swallowed and forced my tone to stay relaxed. “I just don’t think—”
Austin’s smile faded as he reached up andforced my gaze back on him. “No one expects you to want to do that. He won’teither once he gets it. You didn’t seem jealous or worried the other day. We’llfigure something out.”
Swallowing, I nodded and took a second toget my thoughts in order. “The idea of him wanting the pain didn’t bother me.”
Austin’s smile seemed a bit forced. “Thenwe’ll figure out a way to get him the sexy spanking he wants and you can watchor tease him somehow.” Then his wicked grin was back. “And if I need to takeone for the team and ask Silas to spank him while I watch then I’ll do that foryou.”
Laughter bounced around the room as thetension finally broke. “Thanks, asshole.”
He gave me a beaming grin. “You’re welcome.I’m the best friend you could ever have.”
They were all too drunk for me to agreewith that.
When Wade was on the verge of losingseveral of his throw pillows to random violence, he called a halt, claiming weneeded refills of the fruity concoction.
That turned out to be a wonderfullyterrible idea.
The damned stuff just went down too easily.Soon I couldn’t remember why I’d been so stressed earlier and even Dakota’sincessant questions about Simon’s dick weren’t driving me crazy.
“No, I’m serious. It’s an inked-on tattoo.”I sighed for what felt like the thousandth time. “Ask the drama queen if youdon’t believe me. He saw it.”
Austin was now prancing around somewhatunsteadily in some fancy dress he seemed to pull from nowhere. But it wasbetter than the nearly thirty minutes he’d wandered around naked trying todecide if he was going to put clothes on at all.
I wasn’t sure if we were going back to hisnudist phase or not, but the dress was easier to ignore than his erection.
Austin snorted, shaking his head justenough to make him look like he was going to tip over. At the last second, hecaught himself and straightened on the ridiculously high shoes. “No, I can’t besure. You wouldn’t let me touch it. We only have your word.”
“Fuck it. You all saw it.” Growling, I satup to give them a piece of my mind but instantly regretted it. Leaning back, Itried to force the room to stop spinning. “This is ridicule…ridiculous.”
That word shouldn’t have been so hard topronounce.
I was not that drunk.
Was I?
