She refused to move, but he could see the way her eyes widened. “Yes. He’ll take you apart.”
Logan snorted a little. “I’d like to see him try.”
“He already did,” Seth said with a deep sense of satisfaction.
“What do you mean?”
He loved how breathy that question sounded. “You didn’t think they came to New York for a little visit, did you? Oh, no. They came to bring you home. Win wanted to save you from the big bad wolf.”
She shook her head a little. “No. Did he threaten you?”
“Fuck, man. How bad off is he now? What did you do?” Logan asked, proving just how well he knew Seth.
Georgia looked over at Logan. “Don’t joke, Logan. You don’t know Win. He can be a little brutal.”
“And you don’t know Seth, honey,” Logan shot back. “I’ve never met a man who could be more nasty and manipulative than my best friend.”
“No, Seth is sweet. Win could hurt him.”
Sweet. He fucking hated that word. “Your brother backed off, Georgia.”
Her mouth dropped open. “OMG. Win never backs off.”
Seth stared down at her, not ever losing contact with those wide blue eyes. “He backed off really damn fast when I explained, in neat and very clear details, how I intended to take over his company and leave him with nothing if he ever tried to come between me and you again. I explained to all your brothers how I would take each of them down individually. They know I will ruin their lives and raze everything they care about if they attempt to take you away from me.”
“Ah, there’s Seth.” Logan had the faintest smile on his face. “I thought you had gone all soft on me, buddy. Georgia, he’s always been this way, ever since he was a kid. Seth always had a plan, and he always got what he wanted.”
She closed her eyes, taking a long breath. “You threatened my brother.”
Fuck. “Yeah.”
“You told him you would take DawComm away from him.” Every word that came out of her mouth was precise, as though she was trying to grasp the idea.
Damn it. He was in for a penny though. “Yes. I planned out a way that would cost me over a hundred million dollars, but I could do it. I also threatened to get Mark and Drew tossed off Delta Force, and I might have inferred that I would have Chase sniped.”
Logan’s laughter split the room. “You did your research, man.”
“A hundred million dollars?” Georgia’s eyes opened. Wary, questioning. “You would spend a hundred million dollars to make sure I didn’t go back to Malibu with my brother? You would threaten them and go to war with them? Over me?”
There was only one answer to the question. If she was offended, well, then he’d overplayed his hand. “Yeah. I would.”
“That is the sexiest thing I ever heard.” She went on her toes, and before he knew what was happening, she brushed her lips against his, a shy little kiss. “I can’t be your mistress, Seth. No matter how nice I think it is that you would fight for me, I can’t just be someone you sleep with and hide whenever anyone who matters comes around.”
His whole soul softened. He caught her in his arms, dragging her to his body. Those heels of hers brought her to just the right height. “I am sorry you felt that way today. I’ll take you out tomorrow and you can meet anyone you like. I’m proud of you. I’m also slightly scared of you now, but that’s a good thing. I think we’re finally being honest with each other.”
She bit into that incredibly sexy bottom lip. “You don’t just want me for sex?”
Time for flat-out honesty. It was the only thing that would work here and now. “I knew I would marry you about five minutes after you walked in my door. And how can you say I don’t want to show you off to anyone who matters? Besides you, no one matters to me more than Logan. Georgia, I don’t have any family I care about. My granddad died and my mom and dad don’t really care about me. I have Logan and I have this town.”
“I just can’t not matter,” she said, but her head found his shoulder.
“You matter, baby.” God, she’d come to mean everything to him.
“Okay. I’m sorry about the stomping out thing.” She gave him the sweetest smile, and he felt his inner Dom start to fade.
“It’s okay.” He let his hands run down her torso to her hips, his cock hardening at the thought that he could have her. Soon. Very fucking soon. Like minutes from now.
“Are you serious?” Logan asked. He stood up and his hands were on his hips, a sure sign he was irritated. “She gets away with that? Man, if that’s the relationship you want, then I should pack up and head out to the Movie Motel because I can’t do it. You set a rule and you hold that line. Just because she turns those gorgeous eyes up and bats those lashes at you doesn’t mean a thing.”
Georgia turned, looking back at Logan, and there was no way to mistake the heat in her eyes as she looked at him. “What are you saying, Logan?”
“I’m saying, pull down those pants and get over my lap and take your punishment and then we’ll talk about sex. Then we’ll talk about setting you on that bar and forcing you to make up for the fact that you threw out our dinner. We’ll just have to eat your pussy until we’re full.”
Her whole face flushed, her skin turning pink and her breath hitching. “You want to spank me.”
It wasn’t a question. Seth had a hunch that Logan had probably mentioned the whole spanking thing before. It seemed to be a theme with him.
The thought of Georgia willingly pulling down her pants and placing that round, sweet ass over his best friend’s lap to take some discipline made him worry that his cock was about to go off. “Yeah, he wants to spank your ass, baby. And he’s not the only one who missed dinner. I want to eat your pussy, too. I want to make you scream and forget that we were jerks tonight. Tomorrow we can start all over again. And in a few days, we’ll go to Logan’s moms’ anniversary party and you’ll be on my arm and there won’t be any question that you’re my girl.”
Georgia took a long breath. “But I have to let Logan spank me.”
“No.” He wasn’t going to blackmail her. “Georgia, if you’re not interested in this lifestyle, then we can go straight to bed and I’ll treat you like a lady. I want you any way I can have you.”
“I’m crazy about you, Georgia, but I can’t promise you what Seth can,” Logan said, his voice firm. “I can promise that as long as you and Seth want me in your bed, I’ll be there, but I can’t play it vanilla. The funny thing is, if it was anyone but you, I probably could. I’m going to be here in Bliss for a couple of weeks before I head back to Dallas. I want to spend that time with you. It’s fucking selfish as shit. I was right when I let you go, but I can’t do it again, and that fucker you’re standing with knew it.”
Georgia shook her head. “He didn’t know we were connected.”
“Of course he did. Like I said before, Seth always has a plan. He wants you and he wants to share you with me. He wants the family he never had.” Logan stood there, a completely immovable object.
Seth felt broken. He almost didn’t recognize his friend. Henry’s words came back to him. Seth had left Logan alone. He’d gotten lost in his own plans and empire building, and Logan had suffered without him. He’d been so busy thinking of the future that he’d ignored the present when he should have been helping his friend.
So he couldn’t leave him hanging out there. “I knew. Kitten told me. I was going to take care of you because I knew how he felt about you, and then I met you and I knew you were the one. Yes, I plotted. Yes, I threatened the fuck out of your brothers. Yes, I brought you here because I think you still want him. And yes, I want you to pull those pants down and lay across Logan’s lap.”