Free Whipped by Sabrina York

anymore.” This Dane shouted at Tina, not Cody. His gaze bored into hers. Hers bored right back. “She tied me up and rode me.”
    “She what ?” Cody squeaked. They both ignored him.
    Tina glared at Dane. Poked him with a sharp finger. “You tied me up first.”
    “He…what? He what?”
    “Only because you wanted it,” Dane snapped.
    “She…”
    Tina bristled. “Only because you thought I was a hooker.”
    “A hooker!” Cody thrust himself between them, though they were nearly nose to nose. “You thought my baby sister was a hooker?”
    “You should have seen her,” Dane roared.
    He didn’t expect the fist to the gut. Or maybe he did.
    It was hard. Real hard. Dane slumped to his knees, the wind knocked out of him.
    He really didn’t expect Tina to haul off and slug Cody. And then fall to her knees at his side. “Are you okay, baby?” she cooed. “Did he hurt you?”
    “Did I hurt him?” Cody shook out his hand. “Did I hurt him ?”
    “I can’t believe you punched him.” She reached up and smacked her brother again for good measure.
    “He called you a hooker.”
    “He didn’t call me a hooker. He said he thought I was a hooker.”
    “Is there a difference?”
    Tina set her chin in a way Dane recognized. Cody would be smart to just shut up now. “There’s an enormous difference. Besides, Cody, I’d just come from the Smexy Photo Shoot. I was all dolled up. You all were expecting a hooker and he assumed it was me.”
    Cody’s lips flapped. “ You’re. My. Sister. ”
    “And what does that mean? I can never have a lover?”
    “Not my best friend!”
    “I can never have sex? Never have a man? A husband? Never have babies? Just because we once exited the same vagina?”
    Cody cringed. “Don’t say that word. Don’t ever say that word. And that’s not what I mean. Tina, sweetie.” Now they were all on their knees. Dane could only imagine what the Japanese tourists thought about all this. But, apparently, it was photo-worthy. “You gotta understand. There’s a code. Guys do not fuck their best friend’s sister.”
    She put out a lip. “Not even if she wants him to?”
    “Especially then.” He slashed his hand through the air.
    “What if they like each other? Really like each other?” This, she said more to Dane than to her interfering brother.
    “What if they want to explore?” Dane said back.
    “Explore?” Cody bristled. “Explore what?”
    Tina pushed him away, leaning closer to Dane, her gaze snagged in his. “What if it’s more than like?”
    Something caught in his throat. He tried to swallow around it. “What if it is?”
    “What if they l-love each other?” she whispered.
    “What if they do?”
    Cody froze. His gaze skated from Tina to Dane. It must have been plain on Dane’s face—the pain, the need, the surrender. “Do you…Do you love her?” he asked.
    “Yeah. I kinda do.” Dane shrugged. “Sorry bro.”
    Tina sighed. She gazed at him as though he’d hung the stars. “You do?”
    He wove his fingers through her hair and held her steady as he gazed down at her beautiful face, those glimmering eyes, that tweaked up nose, those sweet, red lips. “I do.”
    “Do you love him ?” Cody’s voice floated, as though from far away.
    Dane held his breath as Tina studied him, her big doe eyes wide and clear. “Shit Cody, I’ve loved him since high school.”
    “That wasn’t love,” Dane felt compelled to point out. “That was a crush.”
    “Don’t tell me what love is, Dane Coulter. All I know is you’re the only man I ever wanted. No other man ever measured up to you and they never will. What we shared was amazing. Mind boggling. Transformative—”
    “Okay. Okay. Yeah. We get it.” Cody lurched to his feet. “Enough already.”
    Dane stood as well and helped Tina up. “So you don’t mind if I see your sister?”
    “You don’t mind if I see your best friend?” she asked, with an impish smile.
    So impish, in fact, Dane couldn’t help