“Perhaps you should do some traveling, and write your own.”
“Maybe I will.” Her smile tells me she isn’t taking the idea seriously.
“I’m in earnest, bella. When is the last time you had a vacation?”
She shakes her head. “Never. Although…can I tell you something scandalous?”
The way her pouty lips form the word “scandalous” makes me want to drag her over the table and into my lap. I resist the urge, but I sit forward, elbows on the table. “Please, tell me.”
“I quit my job today. With the catering company.” She pauses, pursing her lips together. “Or maybe it’s that I allowed myself to be fired. I’m not sure.”
“So now you have time to go on holiday.” Although I am concerned about her income. She cannot have earned much at the catering company. But perhaps she has other sources of income. After all, she did take part in the Low Vice auction. If she plans to make a habit of it, I will have to attend each one, and win her every time.
“Yes, I think I do.” Her attention is captured by our server bringing in our soup. We pause our conversation while the woman arranges everything just so. Once our server leaves again, Madison takes a spoonful of soup, swallows, and gives me a mischievous grin. “I still can’t believe I quit. Or was fired. I let my coworker walk all over me…until tonight.”
“What was different about tonight?”
“Well, the first thing is I realized that I don’t need that job. If I want a job, I can find another one.”
“And the other reason?” I force myself to take a bite. I don’t care about food, I just want to talk to her, hear her voice, learn about her and the way her mind works.
“The other reason is I wasn’t about to let my coworker bully me out of my date with you. I’ve had enough of her stealing my time off.”
“She steals your time off?”
“Not anymore, she doesn’t.” Madison grins, and her smile spears my heart in the best way.
“I’m glad you don’t listen to your coworker anymore.” I flash her a smile of my own. “You deserve much better than that. If someone’s going to boss you around, it better be for fun.”
“Oh yeah?” She narrows her eyes in a challenge, but her smile remains in place. “Being bossed around is fun?”
“Yes, like the other night at Low Vice. You were obedient to me, and you had fun, didn’t you, bella?”
Her cheeks turn rosy with a blush. “I wasn’t obedient to you.”
“No?” I watch her face carefully. “Give me your panties.”
Her lips part in surprise and she laughs. “I’m sorry, what?”
“You will be sorry.” I deepen my tone. “Give me your panties. Remove them right now, where you’re sitting, and hand them to me.”
“Uh, I…I’m not wearing any.”
I sigh and raise my eyebrows. “You’re lying to me, bella, and it won’t go well for you.”
She squirms, clearly aroused. She looks intrigued, too.
“So.” I lean back in my seat. “Are you going to remove your panties like I told you to, or am I going to have to pull you over my lap and spank you?”
9
MADISON
It isn’t fair how fast this man can turn me on. I should be mad, right? Like, who the heck is he to just sit there and demand my underwear?
But I’m not mad. I want to give my lacy panties to him. I want to obey.
This is insane.
