Whipped by York Sabrina

Author:York, Sabrina [York, Sabrina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sabrina York
Published: 2015-08-11T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

It was hard as hell avoiding Tina because she was everywhere—she was as involved with the wedding party and the planning and the preparations as he was. Whenever he saw her, or smelled her, or heard her voice, he’d ache.

Which was awkward, because in addition to Angie’s family and Cody’s teeming clan, Dane’s family had descended on Vegas for the wedding as well. He was surrounded by siblings and buddies and parents. There were hugs and kisses and casual conversations. There were gatherings, and meetings and fittings. And through it all, he was hard.

He knew he needed to thrust Tina from his mind. Forget they’d ever tangled. Forget how she tasted, how she felt, forget the sweet, slick slide of her body on his. But he couldn’t.

It nearly killed him that she flirted with everyone at lunch. Everyone. Smiles and fluttered lashes for all the Rangers on Cody’s team, who seemed besotted with her—although they respectfully kept their distance. But there were other men there too, including Adam, Dane’s older brother, and Ransom, who was younger by three years. Ransom was clearly infatuated with Tina, though far too shy to respond to her lures.

But Adam? Adam didn’t seem to have any compunction about flirting with Cody’s sister. None at all. It made Dane want to puke.

To make things worse, Angie’s sister, Holli had taken a liking to Dane and shadowed him everywhere, popping up at his side incessantly and ogling him and touching him. All this while he stared at Tina, across the room, smiling at Adam. Or Ransom. Or Ennis, or Kaye, or Taylor, or his dad. In the end, he had to escape to his room, where he could mope in peace. He didn’t come out until his father sent him a text asking where he’d gone off to, and inviting him for an afternoon coffee.

And when Colonel Coulter invited you for coffee, you had coffee.

It was then that Dane realized how stupid he was being. He didn’t get to see his family, his parents, near often enough. He’d be damned if he’d let her steal this opportunity to spend time with them.

So he made his way down the coffee shop tucked behind the escalators. He saw his parents immediately, sitting at a table in the back, holding hands, and something lifted in his soul. He headed their way. His dad rose to meet him with a hug. He bent to kiss his mother’s cheek.

Damn. It was good to see them.

It would be nice to sit. Talk. Catch up. With no pressure.

“How’ve you been son?” Dad asked, scanning him with a watchful eye as Dane took his seat. Mom slid a white cardboard cup across the table with a smile.

“Great.” Dane sat back in his chair and sipped his coffee. Yeah. Just the way he liked it.

“We heard you were hurt.” Mom leaned forward, a martial light in her eye. Okay. Probably a little pressure. “Why did Cody have to tell us?”

“It wasn’t anything Mom—”

“A concussion is nothing? You were in the hospital.

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