Ace swallows, the pulse in her neck racing as she parts her lips. “I didn’t think it through.”
Leaning toward her, my mouth hovers just over hers. “Then we’re going to make sure that never happens again.”
I kiss her, dipping my tongue into her mouth. She moans and arches into me, her hands sliding up my chest as we pick up where we left off the other night.
When I step back, I grab her hips and pull her off the counter, then spin her around and push her chest down, onto the cool granite. Ace whimpers as she struggles against my hold.
Raising my hand, I spank her ass, my dick hardening as I watch it jiggle before I do the same thing to the other cheek.
“Ouch!” she hisses and squeezes her eyes shut. “I’m sorry!”
She tries to push her upper body off the counter, as if she thinks this is over, but I keep her pinned, peppering her ass again with swats while she yelps and struggles, trying to reach back to block my hand.
“We had a great night together, and then I woke up to find you gone. Not even a note. Just a poker card,” I tell her, finding immense pleasure in how hard she’s breathing as she rubs her thighs together. It might sting, but she doesn’t hate it.
“It was only supposed to be one night. I didn’t think it would matter to you.”
My heart beats harder, and I pause for a second at those words before I spank her several more times. “You also lied to me earlier about where you were going.”
I pause but keep my hand on her lower back so she can’t get away. She turns her face to look at me as I stand by her left side. Our eyes meet, and I consider pulling my cock out and shoving it between those pouty lips, but my girl isn’t done learning her lesson.
“You’re such a fucking little tease,” I mutter and the corners of her lips curl up into a playful grin.
“And a fucking brat,” I add, swatting her ass several more times. She yelps every so often when I give her a sharp one. Reaching down, I grab the hem of her dress and yank it up.
“No, wait!” she cries out as she twists to try to stop me, but the silk is already up and over her hips, giving me a glance of a scar on her thigh.
Not just a little one. It’shuge. Long and thick and angry. And it looks somewhat new.
The muscles in my neck tense, and I release her, taking a step back to get another look at it before she quickly pushes her dress down. That isn’t a regular type of scar. It’s long. Almost the length of her entire thigh and up to her hip.
I move back to her and capture her chin in my fingers. “Tell me. Is that why you’re limping? Did you fucking lie to me about that, too?”
CHAPTER 14
Ace
Heat spreads over me,and I lower my gaze, straightening my dress as I stand straight.
Shit.
Dropping my shoulders, I stare at him, unblinking as he reads me like a book. He leans down, narrowing his gaze, so our faces are only inches apart. My ass tingles from him spanking me, though the fabric of my dress helped shield some of it.
“Let’s get one thing straight, angel, otherwise I have a feeling you’re going to have a hot ass whenever you’re around me.”
Whenever I’m around him?
What the hell does he mean by that? We had a one-night stand, and I guess now we’re having a two-night stand? I don’t even want to think about the fact that he lives seven houses away from mine.
“You don’t lie to me. I don’t lie to you. It’s a rule,” he says quietly.
A rule? He can’t give me rules. Who the hell does he think he is? Why does he even care? He makes it seem like whatever we tell each other matters, and it doesn’t. He’s a rich casino owner who was looking for a quick fuck, and I was the one he took to his room that night. Getting to fuck him again is just a bonus.
He saw my scar, and instead of looking horrified, he looked pissed. Like he wanted to hunt down whatever or whoever caused it. And the way he’s staring at me now is the same way he was the other night. Like he wants to devour me.
“Okay,” I finally say.
As soon as the word comes out, his mouth is on mine, kissing me hard and fast, his fingers threaded in my hair, and his other hand on my ass, grabbing it.
