“Good.” I smile then pat my knee. “Now come over here.”
She narrows her eyes on my hand. “Why?”
“Because I said.” I tilt my head, daring her to defy me again.
Indecision plays across her features, but she doesn’t take long to see the rightness of obeying me. After all, I’ve proven how good she gets to feel when she’s a good girl for me.
Her footsteps fall silent against the carpeting as makes her way to me, stopping just outside of arms reach.
“Now, pull down your pants and your panties, and leave them at your ankles.”
She retreats one step, but I reach out and grab her hand, stilling her.
“Bad girl.” I squeeze her hand then release it, retaking my position on the bed. “Do what you’re told.”
“Can I ask why?” She hooks her thumbs into the elastic of her lavender pajama bottoms.
“Because spankings happen on bare asses, Sienna.” I explain without any emotion lacing my words.
“Spanking?” She drops her hands to her sides again. Can’t have that.
“Yes, you got three strikes.” I give a pointed look at her hands. “You’re still not listening.”
“But I was honest.”
“You were.” I nod, raising my eyes to meet hers. I want to see her expression. All of her emotions play out in real time for me in her eyes. “But you broke one of the rules.”
She thinks a moment. “The car?”
I chuckle. She’s got me there. “Okay, you’ve broken two rules.”
Her brow wrinkles while she tries to understand what she’s done wrong.
“Your panties. Are you allowed to wear them in my bed?”
“You weren’t home. You haven’t been home.”
“I don’t remember there being an exclusion to the rule. But maybe I’m wrong. Was there?” I raise my brows.
“No. I guess not.” Her fingers rub together at her sides, she makes no other movements.
“Sienna.” I rub my hands down my legs, gripping my knees. “I’m losing patience. And you don’t want that.”
“What if I don’t want you to spank me? What if I don’t want this at all?”
I lean back an inch. “What do you say if you want me to stop?”
“I say stop.” She scratches the back of her neck.
“That’s right.”
“Even now?”
I give a slow nod. It will kill me if I have to stop now. I’m so close to getting her sweet ass over my knee. But if she says the word, I’ll leave her to her book.
“Even now.”
“Okay.” She hooks her thumbs back into the elastic and shoves the pajamas and her panties to her ankles.
