Total pages in book: 46
Estimated words: 47381 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 47381 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 237(@200wpm)___ 190(@250wpm)___ 158(@300wpm)
“Just because I’m not looking doesn’t mean I’m not admiring. It doesn’t mean I don’t want you,” he whispered. “It just means I know you’re sick and I respect that now isn’t the right time to perv at you.”
“There’s a right time to perv at someone?”
“Course there is,” he said with clear humor in his voice. “Now, let’s get you into the bath.” He leaned around her to turn off the taps before picking her up and placing her in the hot water. He’d added bubble bath, so the bubbles covered her. Actually, they were almost suffocating her, and some spilled over the side of the bath.
“Hmm, think that might have been too much bubble bath.” He looked troubled by that, as though he didn’t like getting it wrong.
She giggled as bubbles covered her chin and cheeks, then smiled up at him. “I think it’s just the right amount of bubbles.”
“Oh, look, I’m dating Santa Claus,” he joked.
“Ho, ho, ho.”
“Or is it Rudolph?” He tapped her nose.
She wrinkled it. Not nice. It wasn’t her fault her nose was glowing.
Grabbing a cloth, he put some shower gel on it before he started washing her arm.
“Um, I can do that myself.”
“I assumed so since I’ve never thought of you as dirty or smelly.”
“So, um, you don’t have to do it now,” she explained.
“But I’m going to.” He moved to her other arm to wash it. “Oh, by the way. That’s five.” This time, he held up his entire hand, fingers splayed..
She gaped at him. “What for?”
“Well, if I go back over it in detail, I think you’re going to end up with more punishments, and I don’t think you want that. But basically, there was a lot of talking bad about yourself. Unacceptable. And against the rules.”
“What rule?”
“The rule about putting yourself down.”
“Wait. I have a rule about that?”
“You do now.”
“Well, should I be punished when I didn’t know the rule?”
Hello loophole.
“Do you think it’s acceptable to talk down about yourself whether it’s a rule or not?” he asked.
Loophole closed.
“Darn it. You speak too much sense. Who thought you’d be such a strict Daddy?”
He narrowed his gaze at her. “You really thought I’d be indulgent and let you speak badly about yourself?”
Hmm. Maybe not.
He washed her legs before moving to her tummy and breasts. Under other circumstances, she might have found this a turn-on, but she was starting to feel miserable again. Her eyes were kind of itchy and she needed to blow her nose.
“I need a tissue,” she said.
“I’ll get you one.” Standing, he dried his hands before he grabbed a tissue. Then he crouched and held it to her nose. She was too tired to protest his help.
Besides, her hands were wet, and nobody liked a soggy tissue.
After blowing her nose, she felt some relief. She could breathe easier.
He continued to wash her, the cloth moving down to her pussy.
“Part your legs,” he said in a soft, husky voice.
She moved her legs apart, and he gave her a surprised look.
“I figure if you haven’t been put off already, then washing my pussy isn’t going to do it.”
Okay. She could not believe she’d just said that. It had to be the cold talking.
He held up the hand holding the washcloth and then his other, his thumb extended.
What?
“Why?”
“Talking badly about yourself.”
Darn it. “This is going to take some getting used to. Can’t I have like an earn five get one free?”
“So, you earn five punishments and then you get an extra for free?” he asked as he finished cleaning her. Grabbing a clean cloth, he had her sit forward so he could wash her back.
“No, that’s not what I meant!” She coughed.
“Calm down,” he ordered in a low voice.
“I mean, if I got five, the sixth would be wiped.”
“Ahh. Yeah, that’s not happening.”
Rats. Maybe his memory would slip, and he’d forget one or two.
“I need to start writing these in your notebook.”
“I don’t have a notebook,” she told him.
He gently helped her lie back. “You do now.”
With a sigh, she closed her eyes.
“You doing okay?”
“Yeah. Just wanna lie here for a moment. Is that okay?”
“Of course it is, Bumblebee. I’ve got some things to set up in the other room. Promise you won’t fall asleep?”
“I won’t. Wish I could wash my hair, though.” Unfortunately, she didn’t have the energy. And it would be better to do it in the shower. All of these bubbles weren’t going to do her hair any good.
“Leave it for now. We’ll sort that out later.”
She nodded tiredly.
Sounded like a good idea to her.
CHAPTER 12
Brand set out some of the things he’d bought on the bed. There, maybe this would all help.
Then he picked up the teddy bear that Sadie had gotten Derek to buy for his girl. It was a kind gesture. Derek seemed to be a decent guy and it was just a stuffed toy.