Bind Me (Private Listing #2)

“Tickling wasn’t a hard limit, kitten.” Noah laughs as he wraps his arms around her from behind and lifts her into the air. “If you really want me to stop, you could use your safe word.”

She squeals with laughter. I lean against the wall, watching them with my heart filling my chest. This is everything to me. Having my brothers with me and having them all happy. And Madison. She’s smart and sexy and so open about everything.

This is what I want. This life right now with these people.

Sure, we have some issues to resolve, but I want this to work.

“Creeping?” Coop settles next to me on the wall.

“Just appreciating.” I glance over at him. “You happy?”

Coop smiles as his gaze goes to Madison and Noah. “Seem to be.”

“Yeah.”

Madison turns her bright blue eyes on the two of us, and her beaming smile makes my heart ache. “What are you two talking about?”

Shaking my head, I walk across the room to the island. “Nothing.”

She cocks her eyebrow at me suspiciously, but she doesn’t lose her smile. Her neck is still bruised. The overall bruising is down, but not the finger-shaped ones. There’s still so much we haven’t figured out. Her roommate is still out there, and so is the mysterious stalker.

“Just dreaming of fucking your sweet ass tonight.” Coop sits at the island and bats his eyes at Madison.

Her cheeks flush with color as she gives him a shy smile back.

“Dinner first.” Seth’s strong voice comes from behind us. He likes order. This whole ordeal with the client poaching pisses him off. It has to be an inside job, which means one of our employees, or more, is betraying us.

I’ve already put out background checks on the employees we suspect. It tears me up inside knowing we trusted the wrong person. Again.

Noah pulls out the pizzas and carries them to the already set table.

“Did you find what you guys were looking for?” Madison asks as she follows Noah.

Seth sits at the head of the table and leans back in his chair. “We don’t know who is involved, but it seems to be less about money than strategically dismantling what we’ve created.”

Madison’s brow furrows as she takes a slice of pizza. “How so?”

“Someone is contacting potential clients and warning them off our company. The clients don’t all go to the same cyber tech company afterward.” Coop rests his forearms on either side of his plate. “It doesn’t make any sense. If someone were trying to get in good with a new employer, you would see the clients all signing on to the same company.”

“And it’s been going on for a while,” I point out. “Whatever employee is leaking our information has done it so slowly that, if Jason hadn’t called, we wouldn’t even be aware of it.”

“We have to look at possible collusion as well.” Seth shakes his head and sighs. “We won’t find the answers today or tomorrow, but we might get some indication of who might be involved. Until then, we need trusted people on our integration teams.”

Which means more work for us, but Seth doesn’t say that.

“But not tonight,” Coop says around a bite of pizza. He swallows before adding, “What’s tonight’s agenda?”

“Madison had a request which I’m going to help her with.” Noah’s voice is nonchalant, but I can tell he’s excited about what she wants.

Madison flushes red again. “We’ll set up, and then Noah will tell you when to come in.”

I’m tempted to say fuck dinner, but I’ll need energy.

“So, Noah’s running the show tonight?” Coop glances at Seth, like he’s eager for him to blow up.

Seth smirks. “It’s about time someone else took charge.”

We chuckle. I give Seth maybe fifteen minutes of whatever Noah has planned before he’s barking orders. Usually we all enjoy his orders, so I don’t fight it. Madison shifts in her chair as her gaze darts between all of us. When her gaze falls on me, I give her a slight smile.