Beside her, a sickening sound of bones crunching made her jump, and when she whirled, Cade stood as a man again. She gulped. A huge, stacked man without a stitch of clothing.
He gave a dog-like shake of his head, which cracked his neck. She tried to keep her eyes from wandering below his waist. Cade’s glower snapped her focus back to his face.
He pointed to the giant bathroom. “Get in there. Warm up with a hot bath or shower. When you come out, you will be taking a very long trip over my knee.”
Her tummy flipped like a pancake and she stood rooted to the spot.
He frowned, his amber eyes moving over her face. “Talk to me, Faye—are you all right?”
She nodded, her head wobbling on her neck.
He pushed her into the enormous bathroom and turned on the water in the tub. “I know I scared you out there. That’s quite a scream you have. Have you ever auditioned for horror flicks?”
His flippancy brought her voice back. “Yeah, you might have mentioned the part about you being a werewolf.”
He unzipped her jacket and pulled it off, dropping it on the floor. Before she could protest, he whipped her shirt over her head and reached behind her to unclasp her bra, clearly an expert in removing women’s lingerie.
“W-what are you doing?” she asked, feeling as if the air had been sucked out of the room. In another moment, they would both be stark naked.
“Putting you in the bath. And you’d better get used to being nude in front of me because you officially lost your clothing privileges, little fairy.”
CHAPTER 13
JAKE
It had been a good day and a great night. Jake couldn’t believe he had just met his little nymph only 24 hours ago. They had barely made it back to Coral’s room yesterday before they were all over each other again and so they didn’t get to talk, and then they both had prior obligations. He slipped back into her room late last night, but she was already fast asleep. When he climbed in the bed beside her, he fit perfectly next to her as she curled her body into his.
When they woke up this morning, he had pulled her into the shower with him. He lathered every part of her before bathing himself. He had watched her body responding to his touch, and it made him hard now just thinking about it. By the time they got out and were drying off, she was ready to pounce him again.
He wasn’t letting her have the upper hand. Where was this line of thinking coming from? He never thought of himself as the dom type. Sure, he liked to control things and he had always had a turn on about spanking, but the thingshe wanted to do to her… And just knowing she would let him made him rock hard.
But today they were going to talk. He had promised her yesterday they would have a chat about lying, and he wasn’t about to let her distract him again.
He adjusted his cock in his dress pants as he took another appreciative gaze at his little nymph he had placed in the corner. She seemed surprised when she woke up and he was here, but he didn’t miss the relief in her eyes when she told him good morning. Her relief quickly fled when he announced they would still be addressing her lying by not telling him she was a virgin. He had a plan, but he wasn’t letting her in on it just yet.
Coral stood with her nose to the wall, shifting nervously from foot to foot. He knew she wanted him again, but he had promised her a consequence for lying. Remembering a conversation he had with Mr. Wolfe about discipline and forms of punishment, he had decided a spanking turned her on too much and that maybe a little time in the corner would remind her she needed to share everything with him.
He stood up and approached her, and she stood stock still and stiffened as he neared her. He slid his hands around her waist. Her skin warm to the touch. He had called in Pino to make a fire in the hearth as he knew he would not want Coral to cover her beautiful body again while he had her alone. She had protested when he let the man in while she was standing naked in the corner. She started saying he could just make the fire himself, but one sharp look from him and she turned back to the wall, silencing her objections and not giving another peep.
Jake let his hands graze her nipples and they hardened under his touch. He laughed into her hair. “You’re so eager,” he said. “Are you enjoying your corner time?”
She shook her head. “No, I am not enjoying it, and I would like some clothes, please.”
He released his hold on her and tugged her towards the armchair. She eyed him suspiciously and raked her gaze over his state of dress. He was wearing black dress slacks with a white button down dress shirt that he hadn’t bothered to button yet.
“You can have some clothes when we’re done with your punishment.”
She widened her eyes at him.
He picked up his belt. “We have to go meet Redd soon. I promised I’d show her how to play chess this afternoon. I have half a mind to whip you, then take you from behind and bring you downstairs just as you are, with my juices running down your legs.” He could almost feel his cock pulse at the mental image of that. But Coral’s mouth fell open and she tried to step away from him. He kept the firm hold he had on her arm and pushed her over the side of the chair.
“I won’t though, because I’m feeling gracious today.” He held back a laugh at her audible sigh as she shimmed her hips to find a comfortable place over the arm of the chair. He doubled the belt and cracked it down across the center of her cheeks, her skin already back to a milky white since their session with the riding crop yesterday.
Now the belt left a contrasting red stripe across the center of her luscious ass. He saw her hands ball into fists on the seat of the chair, but she made no move to get away. He raised the belt up again and swung harder than before. The thwack echoed off the walls, and Coral let out a small squeal. He swung again, laying down a welt just below the last, right across her sit spots, and she raised up on her toes.
“I think, from now on, you’ll always be truthful with me. Is that right?”
Before she could answer, he whipped her again, and she gasped before she yelled out, “Yes, yes, I will! I won’t forget!”
