“I wasn’t talking about how terrible the movie was. I’m just not sure it’s appropriate with everything that has happened.”
“I needed a distraction,” she told him.
“You know, if you need a distraction, I can give you one.” North said without looking up from his laptop.
“What?” she asked,
She looked really tired. What she needed was a nap.
“The punishments I owe you,” North said, setting his laptop to one side and steepling his fingers together as he placed his elbow on the arms of his chair.
Damn.
That was hot.
Easy, man.
“What?” she cried. “You don’t owe me any punishments!”
“Such a terrible memory, Angel,” North drawled. “You can’t remember what punishments you’re owed? Let me refresh your memory. You’re in trouble because you hid and spied instead of telling me that you were there so I could save you from seeing Rex’s head.”
“Yeah, that would have been good,” she said quietly, looking ill.
Jared walked over and sat next to her on the sofa.
“Then you moved when I told you to stay put.”
“I was in shock, though!”
“Not a good enough defense,” North told her.
“I think it is,” she grumbled.
“And then you called yourself gross and told me that I shouldn’t want to be around you.”
“It was the truth. And that is a defense.”
“Not when you’re putting yourself down,” Jared told her. “There are also the punishments from Angie’s Naughty List.”
“No!”
“Don’t think we don’t know that you were trying to put off your punishments,” North told her. “Were you hoping we’d forget?”
“So, I think it’s time you paid the piper,” North told her. “Come here.”
He crooked a finger at her.
Angie couldn’t believeNorth was actually going to spank her.
Did she want this? Was she willing to submit?
She took a few seconds to think about it. And she realized that she could say no. But this felt like a turning point in their relationship. Something that could change the course or halt it.
And she wasn’t scared of being spanked. In fact, part of her did believe she’d earned it.
She had disobeyed him.
And she shouldn’t have been listening in and watching like that.
