Priceless (Forbidden Men 8)

My jaw dropped. “What the fuck?” How the hell had he known that?

“Oh my God! Brandt!” Caroline yelled, making Teagan startle and drop her cookie. “You did, you dirty little slut! You really did it. And here, I was so sure you’d resist her seduction attempt. I can’t believe my little brother is so freaking easy.”

“Wait. What?” Pressing my hands to my aching head, I counted to five with my eyes shut before dropping my fingers and narrowing my gaze on my sister and her annoying husband. “First of all...what the hell are you three doing here?”

“Teagan has a play date with Beau,” my sister answered as she brushed cookie crumbs from her daughter’s mouth while Teagan selected a new cookie to eat. “But he was napping when we arrived, so now we’re just waiting for him to wake up.”

“Nap?” Teagan lifted her face, looking worried.

Caroline laughed. “No, baby. We’re not making you take another nap.” It was a well-known fact Ten and Caroline’s daughter hated the dreaded n-word. “Beau’s taking a nap.”

“Beau,” Teagan cheered. “Beau-Beau play now?”

“As soon as he wakes his lazy ass up,” Ten told her.

“Lazy ass,” Teagan repeated solemnly.

“He is,” her father agreed, “Just like his daddy.”

“I heard that, asshole,” Noel grumbled as he strolled into the kitchen behind me and went to the refrigerator to get a bottle of Gatorade.

As he shut the door and cracked open the lid, his gaze scanned over me. “Are you just now waking up? Damn, Brandt.”

I folded my arms over my chest and glared. “Are you in on this too?”

After taking a sip, he blinked blankly. “In on what?”

Caroline snorted. “As if he could ever be as devious as Colton and me? Of course we didn’t involve Noel.”

“Colton?” I growled, remembering how he’d enticed me into visiting Sarah last night. Holy fuck, I’d been played...by my own family.

By Sarah.

Oh my God. That deception was the worst. She’d cried, she’d gotten my jealousy stewing, and she’d worn that slinky fucking lingerie. She’d known what she’d been doing the entire fucking time.

I felt sick to my stomach.

“Involved me in what?” Noel repeated, beginning to frown.

“Well, Colton may or may not have learned from Sarah that she and Brandt were discussing...you know.”

Noel blinked. “No. I don’t know.”

“Sex,” Ten said, rolling his eyes. “They’ve finally been talking about doing it.”

Glancing at me as if confused, my older brother said, “You mean, you two haven’t already?”

My jaw dropped. What the hell? “She’s my friend. Of course we haven’t.” Was I the only sane, rational person left on the planet?

“So you didn’t last night either?” Caroline broke in. “Yes!” She punched Ten in the arm. “I win. You lose. Sucka!”

Ten rubbed his arm and scowled at me. “Damn it, what is wrong with you? You seriously turned down the black and red panty set? Dude.” He blew out a low whistle as if he was either impressed or severely disappointed by my willpower.

Unable to take it a second longer, I exploded. “How the fuck do you even know what color of underwear Sarah was wearing last night?”

“Hey, shhh,” Noel warned. “Beau’s taking his nap.”

“Or he was,” Caroline muttered, rolling her eyes.