But my best friend’s attention was focused on me now, and he shot me a lazy grin, swiveling in the chair.
“So yeah, naked and tied up you were saying?” he drawled. “How naked and how tied up?”
I snorted.
“Naked as the day she was born, tied up hand and foot.”
He whistled.
“Shit, you didn’t even let her keep her panties on?”
I almost laughed at that one. The red panties had been so tiny, so silky and tantalizing covering her mound like a slip of nothing. Hell, they didn’t belong on her, that snatch had been so beautiful it was better left bare. But there was no point in explaining this to my buddy, so I merely jerked my head.
“You wanna see?” I asked. “She’s right next door.”
And Derek was out of his chair in a flash, the big man looming next to me, hard and dominant.
“Absolutely,” he growled. “Let’s see our little princess.”
I prickled being so close to the alpha, but tried to pretend nothing was wrong, instead turning to the adjoining door. And with a flick of the lock the massive oak swung open. Sure enough, there was our pretty little brunette, curvy and ripe, naked as the day she was born.
“Yeah,” I grunted. “Yo yo.”
The brunette looked up immediately.
“What the hell?” she squealed plaintively, trying to hide her breasts with her hands. But it was impossible, I had her chained, so instead she just jerked against the metal, shielding nothing.
Derek took in an eyeful, making the girl shudder lusciously. Those blue eyes didn’t miss an inch of creamy skin, caressing her breasts, appreciating the pooch in her belly before skimming down to the pink slit below.
“She’s wet,” he growled appreciatively. “Like a slut.”
Katie squealed again.
“Let me go!” she shrieked, thrashing as best she could. Breasts flew right and left, heavy and pendulous, those haunches gleaming under the light. Hell, it only made me want her more. “You can’t do this!” she squealed, “This is kidnap.”
I paused for a moment.
“And who’s going to miss you?” I drawled. “Who’s gonna notice that you’re gone?”
That made her pause.
“My next door neighbor in the dorm,” she panted. “I talk with her sometimes.”
I chuckled.
“If you think some random dorm friend is gonna report you as missing after twelve hours, think again,” I said wryly. “No one even knows you’re missing, you could be at school, at work, anywhere. And besides, I already talked with Ninth Street Espresso. We own that place too,” I smirked.
That only set her off again.
“Well you can’t do this!” she squealed. “Seriously, this is so wrong!”
Derek jumped in now.
“It’s wrong baby girl, but oh so right, because you’re the woman we’ve been waiting for.”
The brunette lashed out.
“Don’t even start with that. Don’t even go with that bullshit story he was telling me,” she said, shooting daggers my way. I had to admire her verve. The girl was luscious and totally nude, handcuffed in a strange man’s office and yet she was sassy and independent, making her views known. Another woman in her place would have been cowering and crying, begging for mercy, but not our little wildcat. Katie was one of a kind, and I could feel the fire in my gut beginning to burn.
“Don’t worry pretty girl,” drawled Derek. “All that bullshit he fed you? Yeah, it’s real. Unfortunately,” he continued. “But for better or worse, we need a fiancée. We need a girl to show that the family line’s been carried on before they’ll release the money.”
Katie snorted again.
“I dunno what kind of plan this is, but can’t you find someone else? Someone you know? Why do you have to pluck some random girl off the street?”
Derek turned to me eyebrows raised.
“You didn’t tell her?”
I held up both my hands.
“I told her everything, but she wouldn’t listen. This sassy filly has been doubting this and that, telling me I’m crazy. Why don’t you give it a try?”
And with a low rumble in his throat, Derek sat down on the couch about two feet from where Katie was shackled.
“Stop looking at me!” she squealed. “What the hell, what the hell? Who are you, anyways?”
The blonde giant’s smile grew deeper, the gleam in those blue eyes hungry.
“I, my dear, am your captor. Along with this jerk here,” he said, nodding at me. “We’ve decided to find a woman in the name of business and money,” he added mildly.
“But why would you help your friend?” she asked plaintively. “Can’t you tell this is against the law?”