“Kristina.”He barked her name, his jaw tensing at the way she’d ignored him.“I am waiting.”
“Thank you?”Her tone suggested she wasn’t sure what the correct response was, although he had just told her.
Leaning over her tensing form, his voice was little more than a growl.“Thank you,what?”
Was it possible that she’d already forgotten one of the reasons she was there, held down over his lap?
“Master.”It sounded as though she’d had to push out the word, but she had, at least, said it.“Thank you, Master.”
“Hmmm.”His fingers splayed over her no doubt tender cheek, clutching her roughly, and he couldn’t deny the smirk that rose at her pained mewl.“We will need to reiteratewhymy little one is here over my lap.”
“Master?”She pulled in a shaky breath.
Placing a kiss onto the small of her back, the hand between her shoulder blades glided to her hair and fisted her tresses as gently as he could muster.“Why are you being spanked?”
She hesitated, her uncertainty demonstrated in her tightening muscles.
“Because I didn’t listen to your messages.”She sounded confused, as though she still hadn’t comprehended what had befallen her.Perhaps, it was true that she hadn’t.If so, it would be his honor to help her make sense of her submission.
“You did not listen to mywarnings,” he corrected, planting another chaste kiss to her flushed skin.She was so delightful, almost as though she, too, had been touched by the divine.Smirking over her, though, he realized that he would ensure that she definitely had been.Repeatedly and fervently touched.“It’s my role to look after you, and that means keeping you safe from the insects you encountered.”
Which, on reflection, was a terrible insult to insects, who tended to be collaborative and organized as a species, unlike most of the humans he’d encountered.
“Your role?”Once again, her head and shoulders rose as she turned to address him.“I don’t understand what you mean, Master.”
“My role as your master.”She looked wonderful, all red-cheeked and dismayed.Meeting her gaze, he vowed that one day, her ass would match the same scarlet shade as her cheeks.“I am here to care for you, to help you to thrive.”
“By spanking me?”Her timbre was reproachful, her eyes narrowing in accusation.
“Yes,” he assured her, squeezing the vulnerable cheek still grasped between his fingers.“And you will do well to watch your tone around me,especiallywhen you’re being spanked.”
Releasing that cheek, he sent his open palm slamming down against her bared flesh, relishing the way she cried out.
“I’m sorry, Master.”She turned toward the floor, heaving in air.“This is all new for me.”
“What do you say to me when I spank you?”
Rubbing her pink cheeks, he tried to ignore how much the treatment was turning him on.He’d worked hard not to terrify his new captive with an enormous erection, but at the rate his interest was growing, she’d soon be discovering how engaged he was, regardless.
“Thank you, Master.”
Kronos sensed how much it pained her to cede to his request, and he was glad of her ignominy.He saw great things in Kristina’s future, but only if she learned to let go of her pride and accept the gifts he had to offer her.
No one received those favors from a being as powerful as he without there being a price tag attached.Hers was her submission, and her devotion to him thereafter.As far as he was concerned, the cost was small.
“What else are you being spanked for?”
He glowered down at her, even though she couldn’t see the fire in his eyes.With her delicious body slumped over him again and her mane of hair cascading past her face, she had no way of noting his expression, but he sent the intent her way regardless.Let her know when she had riled the dark god who owned her.In the end, she would learn to thank him.
“For not calling you Master.”Her delicate hands, which had previously been balled into fists, relaxed with the admission, as though a weight had been lifted by confessing.
He eyed the gesture with interest, hopeful that the woman hauled over him was starting to accept his authority.
“You will learn, little one.”Of that, he had no doubt.“Perhaps regular spankings will help to keep you in line.”
“No, please.”She shook her head.“This hurts so much, Master.”
“Nonsense,” he chided gently.“Remember what I promised you?I am not harming you.Just showing you the error of your ways.”
