Friends With Way Too Many Benefits (Friends With… Benefits Series (Book 5))

by Young, Luke

  FRIENDS WITH WAY TOO MANY BENEFITS

  A Friends With… Benefits Novel

  LUKE YOUNG

  Copyright © Luke Young, 2013

  All rights reserved.

  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead is entirely coincidental.

  Copyright 2013 by Luke Young. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, downloaded, transmitted, reverse engineered, decompiled or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of Luke Young.

  Cover Art by Once Upon a Time Covers

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  ALSO BY LUKE YOUNG

  SHRINKAGE

  CHOCOLATE COVERED BILLIONAIRE NAVY SEAL

  CHANCES AREN’T (Excerpt Included)

  The Friends With… Benefits Series:

  FRIENDS WITH PARTIAL BENEFITS

  FRIENDS WITH FULL BENEFITS

  FRIENDS WITH MORE BENEFITS

  FRIENDS WITH EXTRA BENEFITS

  FRIENDS WITH WAY TOO MANY BENEFITS

  Also Available:

  FRIENDS WITH EXPLICIT BENEFITS BOXED SET (Books 1-4 with select expanded Ian Dalton Scenes)

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  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  Friends With Way Too Many Benefits

  Chances Aren’t Excerpt

  Introduction

  The first four volumes in this series are available in two flavors—the Luke Young books, which are contemporary romance and the Ian Dalton books which are erotic romance. The Ian versions contain more explicit language and scenes and are each about 10% longer than their Luke counterparts. Starting with this book, volume number five, I’ve decided to release just one version with Ian Dalton expanded scenes included. In this combined edition, you can either choose to read the expanded more explicit scenes or skip them.

  With either version you’ll get the same amount of drama, romance and comedy, but by reading the Ian scenes you’ll get a bit more of the erotic play-by-play. When you reach one of them you’ll find a note, which reads—“Click here to skip over the Ian Dalton expanded scene.” Either read on or simply click to easily move to the next chapter— it’s your choice. Please note that the Ian scenes are filled with more explicit language and sex, and are not for everyone— by skipping them you are missing none of the story.

  I’m really excited to be bringing you this fifth book in the series. It’s been more than a year since I last wrote about this crazy, fun and amazing group of characters who share far too much with one another. In fact, no dare or topic of conversation is taboo with this close-knit group.

  I’ve really missed them and hope you have too. But if you don’t know the gang, you don’t necessarily need to read all the earlier stories to enjoy this volume since I’ve included a summary of the other books below. Even for those who have read them all, this summary is a great recap.

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  Book 1 - Friends With Partial Benefits

  Jillian Grayson is nearly forty and has a big problem. She’s a bestselling romance novelist who suddenly can’t write a chapter without her hunky male heartthrob suffering E.D., an S.T.D. or even worse. And it’s all because a cheating husband, messy divorce and a string of bad dates since then, has left her uninspired, jaded and creatively blocked.

  Brian Nash is a twenty-six year old college senior, an avid tennis player, unlucky in love and the roommate and best friend of Jillian’s son Rob. He’s dating an ex-ballet dancing co-ed, named Natalie, who can keep one leg on the floor while the other is pointed straight to the ceiling and she can hold it there for as long as necessary… She has him wrapped around her finger and she likes it. After Natalie breaks his heart, Brian agrees to accompany Rob home to Miami for a much-needed break from pining over his super-flexible dream girl.

  Once they reach Miami, Rob is sidetracked by his long-time girlfriend Laura’s unexpectedly demanding carnal needs. Left to fend for himself, Brian is immediately attracted to Rob’s surprisingly young, beautiful, smart and available mother who’s just as much a tennis nerd as he. Jillian is smitten with the brokenhearted tennis player as well, and therein finds new inspiration to write. Their attraction grows on and off the court and fighting it becomes more and more challenging.

  After nearly giving in to their feelings, the horny pair decide during a marijuana-induced discussion, that they just can’t be together. They hatch a plan to be FRIENDS WITH PARTIAL BENEFITS with three seemly perfect rules to define the boundaries. They spend one amazing night exploring the possibilities, but with the next morning comes the clarity that a F.W.P.B. relationship, although really, really fun, is a really bad idea.

  When Brian and Laura discover Rob and Natalie have been sneaking around behind their backs they both go ballistic. After Brian’s macho reaction, Natalie sees him in a newly confident light and she begs him to take her back. Upon returning to school together, Brian discovers Natalie is somewhere between a spoiled brat and psychotic, and he sneaks back to Jillian to see if they still have a chance.

  Victoria Wilde is Jillian’s same-aged best friend who’s been alone since the tragic loss of her husband to a brain tumor two years earlier. It wasn’t until she discovered her husband was cheating behind her back that she found the courage to move on and in the process develops a live-life-to-the-fullest, wild and sexually adventurous attitude.

  Urged on by Victoria, Jillian lets go and behind her son’s back, begins a torrid love affair with the man thirteen years her junior— one that exceeds both their expectations. After graduating, Brian returns to Miami and asks Jillian to marry him. Book one ends with Jillian pondering that question.

  Book 2 - Friends With Full Benefits

  As Victoria sets her sights on her first monogamous relationship in more than two years, Jillian struggles to find the right time to break the news to her son about her secret romance to his best friend Brian. When Victoria’s new man isn’t up to the challenge, she’s sent into a mild depression and when Rob’s mother’s secret literally slaps him in the face, he’s devastated and the two fall into bed together on a lonely night.

  Brian has his own issues introducing Jillian to his off-the-wall, super-strict parents. During a trip home, Brian’s parents don’t attempt to hide their contempt for the older woman pursuing their firstborn son. In desperate need of a break from the insanity, Brian and Jillian escape with Brian’s younger and innocent brother, Jim, on an overnight trip to Atlantic City. Jim’s lucky both in and out of the casino, and his purity ends up being the only thing in the red. Returning to the Nash residence, the three discover an eye-opening secret about the Nash parents that sends them all scurrying back to Miami. Once there, Victoria, who’s in desperate need of a casual relationship, finds Jim to be just what the doctor ordered. But when Jim comes on a little too seriously Victoria sends him back to college with instructions to forget all about her.


  Jillian agrees to marry Brian. She also completes her new romance novel based on the true events of her relationship with Brian and his wacky experiences with the off-the-wall Natalie. Told by her agent that she has the necessary legal clearances to do so, she releases her book and moves forward planning a dream destination wedding in St. Barts.

  When Victoria develops second thoughts over her dismissal of Jim’s feelings, she visits him at college and finds he’s head-over-heels in love with Caroline, the girl he met in Atlantic City. On the plane ride home, Victoria feels sick, both mentally and physically, and discovers she’s pregnant. Book two ends with Victoria unsure if the father is Jim or Rob while still harboring the secret from Jillian that she slept with her son.

  Book 3 - Friends With More Benefits

  As Jillian and Brian’s wedding date nears, the blissful Jillian is only slightly bothered that her just released novel is only mildly successful. The same can’t be said for her ruthless agent, Albert, who secretly makes Natalie aware that she’s the star of the show. Hoping for publicity to drive sales of the book, he plants a bug in the ear of the super-flexible ballerina that a financial windfall might be in her future. After Natalie files a lawsuit claiming defamation and that her likeness was used without her permission, book sales sky rocket. Then in a final act of shameless publicity, Albert delivers Natalie to St. Barts to make the wedding slightly more interesting and, to ensure maximum exposure, he arranges for it all to be captured on film. Although the outdoor beach wedding is disrupted by not only the unwanted guest and a sudden rain storm, Jillian and Brian tie the knot.

  When Jillian learns that not only did Victoria sleep with her son, but that he could be the father of her baby, she’s thrown for a loop. Later when the truth is revealed, everyone except Jim’s girlfriend, Caroline, is relieved to discover that Jim is the baby’s father.

  After witnessing first-hand how much in love Jim and Caroline really are, Victoria considers that, along with their age difference and her inability to commit as she makes the difficult decision to push Jim away for his own good. Book three ends with Jim returning to Caroline, Victoria sobbing in a bathtub clutching her growing belly and the newlyweds giggling and looking with trepidation upon Victoria’s wedding gift— a sex swing installed in their master bedroom.

  Book 4 - Friends With Extra Benefits

  This volume opens with Jillian and Brian trying out the sex swing, Jim and Caroline growing even closer together and Jillian and Victoria plotting a little practical joke on Brian. (Throughout the series, Brian finds himself in a number of embarrassing situations— some of his own doing and some courtesy of the clever and imaginative Victoria.)

  After a slightly embarrassing deposition where security photos of a nude Brian were threatened to be released (and there was definite shrinkage), the wacky trial begins. During the proceedings Natalie’s antics continue and include an attempt to seduce Brian, lying under oath along with a smattering of witness tampering. When the jury reaches a verdict in Natalie’s favor, but with an award much to the defenses liking, Jillian is both relieved and overjoyed.

  Complications with Victoria’s pregnancy lead to Jim and Caroline returning to Miami and an early delivery for baby girl Kaylie. After Kaylie requires lifesaving surgery, Victoria and Jim reach out to one another for comfort and in the process the attraction between the two of them is rekindled. Everyone is relieved when the surgery is a success and the prognosis for the baby is for a full recovery. Months pass with Victoria and Kaylie thriving while on their own and Jim and Caroline return to school to finish their senior years. The story comes to a close with Jillian and Brian watching the baby for the night and discussing having one of their own. Fueled by champagne, Victoria, Jim and Caroline grow a little too close while relaxing in the hot tub and after a crowded night of passion; Caroline slips away leaving a note and leaving the new parents to contemplate their future.

  And now on to book five!

  1

  Jim, Victoria, Jillian and Brian sat around the dinner table after having just finished a delicious meal prepared by the famous author. The couple with the new baby hadn’t been out of the house much in the last six months or for that matter enjoyed much sleep. With Victoria’s parents watching Kaylie for the night, they were both ready to unwind. Now the hosting couple, the one with a twenty two year old child/best friend, had been humping quite regularly for the past four months in a frenzied, yet casual attempt to conceive in a, if-it’s-meant-to-be-it-will-happen, sorta way. Unfortunately, they were unsuccessful so far.

  The group headed to the great room to watch the DVD Victoria rented of the new independent movie starring Ben Affleck. It was a film the women were interested in seeing and the men halfheartedly agreed to watch. Ten minutes into, To the Wonder, everyone in the room wanted to hang themselves. With only a few scant words of dialog and pretty much nothing at all happening in the story during that time the four exchanged looks of boredom and confusion. Even with the promise of some gratuitous nudity at some point in the almost two hour epic it was unanimous that they bail.

  Brian hit the stop button on the remote and slumped back on the sofa.

  Jillian asked, “So what should we do now?”

  Jim was busy looking at his iPhone. “We could go to a movie. The new Sandra Bullock movie starts at 10:20.”

  Victoria frowned. “I don’t feel like going out. Does anyone else?”

  “Not really.” Jillian shrugged. “We could play a game. We have Trivial Pursuit, Monopoly, Scrabble… or maybe we could play cards.”

  “Scrabble. I love scrabble.” Grinning, Victoria rubbed her hands together.

  “Really?” Brian whined, “Scrabble.”

  “Come on,” Victoria pleaded. “I’m really good at it and we can make it interesting.”

  “How?”

  “Well, for starters double points for any dirty words.”

  “Woopie.” Brian gave her a look.

  “Okay, how about this. Low score for any round has to do a shot and… and…” Victoria widened her eyes. “Take off an article of clothing.”

  Brian perked up a bit. “Okay, but what happens when one of you girls gets naked— are you just out of the game?”

  Victoria smiled. “First off, us girls… will not be the first ones naked. Let’s just say we’ll be seeing things hanging and swinging before you’ll be seeing any of these.” Putting on a smug look, she motioned with one hand to her own chest and with the other over to Jillian’s stunning pair.

  “That’s right.” Jillian nodded, smugly.

  “Okay…” Brian held back a laugh. “Regardless of who gets naked first, what happens after that?”

  “Then you choose a truth or dare. And the person with the high score from that round gets to ask the question or provide the dare.”

  “And the dare can be anything?” Brian asked.

  “Well, within reason.” Victoria put a finger to her lips. “How about the other two have to agree the dare is acceptable?”

  “I sorta have a bad feeling about this,” Brian cringed. “But yeah, I’m in.”

  “Me too.” Jillian flashed her husband a smile.

  Jim frowned. “This sounds really complicated.”

  “It’s not.” Victoria blew out a long, slow breath. “I’ll tell you when to drink and when to strip…” She shook her head quickly and made a face. “Okay? Mr. Fun as a dishrag…”

  “Hey, I can be fun.”

  “Well then go get the vodka.”

  “All right.” Jim took off toward the liquor cabinet and Brian headed to the den.

  When Brian returned with the board game Jillian set it up on the large coffee table. Everyone moved to the floor sitting around the table with their shot glass, wooden letter holder and group of letter tiles.

  Victoria scolded the group. “And we all get exactly five articles of clothing, so if you don’t wear a bra then you can count each of your socks separately, but no shoes or anything like that.”


  “For this dirty word thing who judges whether the word is dirty or not?” Brian asked.

  “I think we’ll know.” Victoria shot the group a knowing look. “If it has to do with a fun body part or sex, then it’s dirty.”

  “Is slang okay?” Jim asked.

  “Yes, but only for dirty words.”

  “Ready?” Victoria said. “I’ll go first.”

  “Why do you get to go first?” Brian complained.

  “Duh, it was my idea.”

  After twenty minutes of game play, the boys were working on a decent buzz and were down to only their shorts and underwear. Jillian, the leader, was missing only her socks and Victoria was sockless and down to her bra. On the board appeared the words— sex, nipple, cock and a few less fun selections.

  Smiling, Jim placed his letters on the board. “S. H. I. T. that’s a double and the T is on a triple word score so that’s—”

  “That’s not a dirty word.” Brian scoffed.

  “Is too.” Victoria came to her man’s defense.

  “Um, you’d better check your rule book.” Brian sighed. “The rule was the word had to be for a fun body part or sex.”

  “Yeah.”

  “Well, I don’t know what you two pervs do in the bedroom, but please tell me poop is not involved.”

  Victoria cringed. “Oh, yeah, you’re right. I’m into a lot of wild stuff, but S.H.I.T. is not one of them. Jim, no, you cannot double that.”

  “Okay,” he sighed.

  “My turn.” Jillian ran her tongue over her teeth. “I’m going to use the ‘I’ in his shit for my TAINT.” Grinning, she arranged the letters carefully and looked up to discover everyone giving her horrified looks. “Oh, sorry, that didn’t come out right.”

  Brian winked. “Now that definitely is a double word, a fun body part and hers is so cute.”

  “Oh, that’s sweet.” Jillian put her hand on his arm, beaming.

  “We’re all happy for you,” Victoria said with an edge to her voice.

  “I didn’t say a word when we all had to hear about how awesome your nipples were earlier.” Brian sneered. “What? Can we not share in this game? I thought we were sharing.”