âWhat exactly do you think youâre doing?â
âSeducing you.â
Damn. That was what Brody had been afraid of.
âYou were trying to pretend weâre just friends. Except we arenât,â Genna murmured. âWhat we are is crazy attracted to each other. We need to act on that attraction ⦠The total act, with you naked. Iâm willing to be on top if youâre still holding on to that friendship myth of yours. That way you can tell yourself I took advantage.â
He made some sort of choking sound, sure if he had any blood left in his brain it would have been words of protest.
Then Genna let her dress fall to the floor. Brody actually gulped trying not to swallow his tongue.
She was gorgeous.
Ivory limbs glowed like silk, the long sleek length of her interrupted by tiny pieces of black lace. He didnât know where to start. At the top, where the lace cupped the gentle slope of her breasts. Or at the bottom, where it was barely held in place by two tiny strings.
His gaze as hot as the blood rushing through his body, he decided to settle for the middle. At the cherry-red jewel decorating her belly button.
Screw friendship. And screw good sense.
He was gonna let Genna Reilly seduce him â¦
1
Ten Years Before
âGENNA, YOUâRE CRAZY. You donât have to do this.â
âOf course I do. You dared me.â Genna Reilly gave her best friend a wide-eyed look. The one she used whenever she wanted to appear extra sweet and innocent.
The sweet part was usually an act. The innocent part was pure truth, though. But fingers crossed, tonight was going to change that.
âI didnât dare you. Dina did. You could just take the truth instead. Câmon, Iâll even ask a different question,â Macy said, her desperate tone matching the intense worry in her eyes. She grabbed both of Gennaâs hands, hanging on tight as if her body weight could anchor her to this spot. Since Genna was a lean, mean five-ten and Macy topped out at five-two, as anchors went, the girl wasnât very effective.
âThatâs not how the game is played,â Genna said, carefully extricating her hands, not wanting to hurt Macy but desperately wanting to be gone already.
Sheâd had no idea tonightâs slumber party would turn wild. Oh, sure, the potential was there. Thatâs why they always had sleepovers at Dinaâs, because her mom fell asleep by ten and didnât do spot breathalyzer inspections like Gennaâs dad. It was easy to sneak out and do fun things. Like play truth or dare.
Sheâd figured on a fun weekend with three of her best friends, one of the last leading up to graduation. But sheâd had no idea it would be this fun.
She needed to do this. Now, while the anticipation was still zinging through her system, making her feel brave enough to take on the world. Or, in this case, to take down the sexiest bad boy of Bedford, California.
She wanted Brody Lane.
But he had practically made a career of ignoring her existence.
Time to end that.
Class vice president, squad cheer captain and the daughter of one of the most influential men in town, at seventeen Genna was no stranger to attention. Her exotic looks, long silky black hair and sky-blue eyes ensured that she got plenty of male attention, and not only in her high school classes. Nope, even though they were three years her senior, her brotherâs friends were always staring and flirting with her, too.
But she wasnât interested in any of them.
Not the boys in school.
Not the guys her brother ran with.
Not until heâd started hanging out with Brody last winter.
For the first time in her charmed life, Genna was smitten. Hooked. Hot....
Over a guy who was deemed off-limits. Not only by her parents, who were ridiculously overprotective. But by the town itself, all of whom considered the Lanes just this side of the devilâs minions, and Brody as a hell-raiser with an overdue ticket to prison. Heck, even her brother, Joe, had told her not to be stupid when heâd caught her checking out Brodyâs butt.
And Brody? He looked right through her as if she were made of cellophane. It wasnât as though she expected everyone in the world to adore her. But the guy could drool a little when he saw her in shorts, couldnât he? Or at least stare when he showed up to give Joe a ride and found Genna in a bikini, strategically washing her car.
But did he?
Noooo.
The guy acted as though she wasnât even there.