Page 10 of Obeying Mr Kingsley

“She makes you happy.That’s what matters.”I leaned my back against the bar and sipped my beer.

In my dreams, I’ve tried to turn back time or turn into a ghost and shake myself.To tell him not to marry her.

It never works, of course.

“I know Sebastian doesn’t like her, but I love her.”Jack shared, his radiant smile slipping.“I hope he can accept it.”

“He will.”I’d taken another sip, totally unaware of what was to come in the coming days.“He’s naturally protective.Just tell him you have a prenup, and then you can prove him wrong.”

That was Sebastian’s concern.

“We don’t have one.She offered, but I told her I loved her, and she had to accept all of me.My heart and my money,” Jack told me that day.

The conniving viper.

“She’s a keeper,” I’d told him, laying my hand on his shoulder.

Clearly reverse psychology.

The hours I’ve spent staring into space—at least over the first few years—looking for the signs that Seb saw.That I never did.

Colt, Zander and Drew weren’t fans of Sandy, but they stayed quiet.

I seem to have taken on most of the guilt.I think.I don’t talk about it much.

But I’ll admit, I’m pretty paranoid about protecting myself from women like her.

I mean, fuck, if I couldn’t see my best friend being set up and killed, then how am I going to stop it from happening to me?

I could make the same mistake myself if some woman blinded me with her sweet pussy and beguiling ways.

My instincts are shit.

So I stay vigilant.

And yeah, that comes across as a paranoid wallet-clutching billionaire some days...but at least I’m still fucking alive.

And so are my friends.

No otherSandy’sare getting a single dollar of our enormous wealth, nor taking another life.

When Emily came on the scene, I surprised myself.She barely had two dollars to rub together but was so in love with Sebastian it was painful to watch.

I checked in with the other guys and asked them what they thought.More evidence that I don’t trust myself, but whatever.

We were all in agreement.Emily doesn’t have a horrible bone in her body.Then Colt made some crude joke about Sebastian’s boner.

Beating the rest of us to it.

Seriously though, Seb and Emily are polar opposites.He’s dominant and powerful.Emily is sweet and naïve.

Unlike her best friend.

LexiThe DivaGrant.

I glance across the dance floor to where she’s currently dancing with a friend of Sebastian’s, Craig.He looks like all his Christmases have come at once, the way she’s wiggling her ass at him.

Who knew you could be both irritated and aroused at the same time?