Total pages in book: 35
Estimated words: 34451 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 172(@200wpm)___ 138(@250wpm)___ 115(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 34451 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 172(@200wpm)___ 138(@250wpm)___ 115(@300wpm)
He cut her off by placing his hand over her mouth. He just couldn’t take anymore.
“Baby, hush.”
As soon as he removed his hand, she opened her mouth, so he put it back there. She glared up at him.
“I said, hush. You talked. It’s my turn. Understood?”
She nodded, and he dropped his hand again.
“Now, I appreciate the offer, but there is no way in fucking hell I would ever allow you to get a second job.”
“Allow me?”
“Allow you. And don’t give me any lip about this being an equal partnership. It is my job to take care of you. To protect and provide for you.”
“Duke, this isn’t the fifties. I can do that for you too.”
Yeah, he didn’t think so. But he wisely kept that to himself.
“And you do. You take care of me in all the ways I need. But I’m a man. A biker. And a Daddy Dom. My girl will never wear herself thin trying to bring in the cash. I do that.”
“So we are having money problems?” Her eyes grew wide.
“Sunny, we’re—”
“Why didn’t you tell me?” she interrupted him.
“Maybe I should go back to gagging you.” He sent her a stern look.
She pressed her lips together.
“Listen to me. We are not having money problems.”
She appeared unconvinced.
“The thing is . . . the shop has gotten busy. Incredibly busy. And I thought that hiring Cruz would help, but he’s just brought in more business.”
“That sounds like it should be a good thing, but your tone says otherwise.”
“It is a good thing. But we’re becoming too big for the shop. We need to hire more people, except there’s no more room for them.”
“We have to shift to another shop?” She bit her lip. “All right . . . if that’s what we have to do. Do we have the money to do that?”
“We’d need to get a loan. I’ve got some money. But rather than move, I was actually thinking of starting a second shop.”
“Really?” She suddenly smiled. “Now, that’s a clever idea.”
“Thanks, I have them occasionally,” he said dryly.
“Aww, Daddy. Don’t put yourself down.” She waggled a finger in his face. “You have them more than occasionally.”
He caught her finger with his mouth, biting down gently.
“So you’re going to open another shop?”
“We are,” he said firmly.
“If it’s a ‘we’ thing, then how come you haven’t told me about this before now?”
He brushed her hair back off her face. “It’s my job to make sure that you sleep easy. No stress. No fears. I didn’t want to tell you any of this until I had the details worked out.”
“Oh, but it’s all right for you to be stressed and worried?” she challenged.
“Yep,” he replied firmly.
“I want to help, Duke.”
“You do help. By being you.”
“By being an added burden you have to take care of.”
“Now those are spanking words,” he growled. “That’s ten.”
Uh-oh.
Why hadn’t she thought before she’d spoken?
“Now, Daddy, I think you’re being hasty,” she said quickly as he moved her so she was lying over his lap rather than sitting on it.
Then, her pants and panties were being pulled down past her bottom.
This wasn’t good.
Not good at all.
Smack!
She let out a small cry of shock. Shoot. Duke wasn’t waiting for her to even catch her breath, was he?
Smack! Smack! Smack!
“You are not, nor could you ever be a burden.”
Smack! Smack! Smack!
“And I will not hear another word like that! Understand me? Say it again, and it will be twenty.”
Smack! Smack! Smack!
By the time the last spank landed, she was kicking her feet, her bottom sore and throbbing. He hadn’t messed about.
Those spanks had hurt.
“I’m s-sorry,” she said as he moved her back into the same position from before so she was facing him.
He cupped her face between his hands. “You are the most important thing in the world to me, Sunny. I’ll walk away from the business tomorrow if I need to in order to show you that.”
She shook her head, tears dripping down her face. “You don’t. I already know it. I don’t know why I said it. I just . . . I don’t want you to ever feel like you can’t tell me something. Like you’re worried I’m not capable.”
“Hush, baby. I’d never think that. I need to protect you. That’s who I am. But I will try to tell you earlier if something like this happens again, all right? I don’t like that you were worrying whether we were having money problems. That’s on me.”
“Well, I’m glad we’re not. Because I’ve had my eye on this squishy Mad Hatter toy for a while now, and I was really hoping to get it for Christmas.”
“We’ll add it to your Christmas wish list, yeah?” He kissed the tears off her cheeks.
“Okay, Daddy.”
His mouth then dropped to hers, kissing her slowly, sweetly, before he deepened the kiss.
Then he drew back to stare down at her. “My beautiful girl.”