Total pages in book: 99
Estimated words: 100680 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 503(@200wpm)___ 403(@250wpm)___ 336(@300wpm)
Estimated words: 100680 (not accurate)
Estimated Reading Time in minutes: 503(@200wpm)___ 403(@250wpm)___ 336(@300wpm)
“Because you’re trouble.”
“I most certainly am not trouble,” she replied haughtily. “If anyone is trouble in this relationship, it’s you.”
“Ahh, you finally admitted we’re in a relationship. About time, I waited a long time to hear that.”
“You waited no time at all,” she protested. “And I didn’t mean it like that! Maybe I should give you rules.”
“Not the way this relationship works, baby. But if it eases your mind, I won’t be lying to you. There might be times that I can’t tell you something, but I won’t ever lie.”
She nodded. “Same.”
Okay, he didn’t like that. Maybe it made him a hypocrite, but he wanted to know everything in her life.
“What would you be keeping from me?”
She just eyed him, lifting one eyebrow. Hmm, going to remain tight-lipped, was she? He’d get it out from her.
Eventually.
“Next rules. If you get into trouble, you’re to call me. Straight away. Not an hour after it happens, not half an hour. Straight. Away.”
“Why would I get into trouble?” she asked in a voice so quiet he could barely hear her over the blasting music. Thank fuck, it was quieter up here.
“Because you are trouble. And you attract it.”
“I most certainly do not. I live a boring life. Nothing ever happens.”
Yeah, he didn’t believe that.
“If you want to go somewhere, you’re not taking a bus.”
“Whoa, buddy. That’s a step too far.” She tried to turn around so he helped her straddle his lap. No doubt she hadn’t factored in her skirt rising up her thighs. But damn, those were some gorgeous legs she had.
“No bus, Rainbow.”
“And how do you expect me to get around? I haven’t quite mastered teleportation yet,” she said dryly.
He narrowed his gaze. All right, so he hadn’t thought this through.
“We’ll get you a car.”
“I don’t have the money for a car, plus I don’t drive.”
“You don’t drive?” He gaped at her. She had to be in her early twenties. So why didn’t she drive?
“No.”
“Why not?”
She shrugged. “I was never taught how to drive.”
“I’ll teach you how to drive, and then we’ll buy you a car.”
She shook her head. “Even if that was an option, which it is not, how do you expect me to get around in the meantime?”
“I’ll take you.”
She sighed. “Right. Like that will work.”
“An Uber, then?”
“Okay, sure.” She nodded in agreement, but he had a feeling that she didn’t actually agree with him.
She was tricky like that.
“I know I could lose a few pounds, however I’m not exactly fond of starving myself.”
Nope.
Not happening.
Before she could take her next breath, he had her lying over his lap and was pulling her skirt up over her ass.
“What are you doing?”
“I didn’t think you’d be a slow learner, Rainbow.” He smacked his hand down on her ass three times, and this time when he paused, he didn’t rub the heat in. Because he wasn’t going easy on her.
“Stop! Maxim!”
She tried to reach back, but he just captured her hands in his and held them in the small of her back as his hand landed several more times.
“It sucks that I have to do this again so soon—for you, not for me. I like the sight of your gorgeous ass. Especially when I can see it turning pink through your pretty panties. But it does mean that you’re going to struggle to sit tomorrow. Just as well it’s not a work-day, yeah?”
“Maxim, stop!”
“That’s not your safeword, baby. And you know you earned this spanking.”
“What? How? Stop it, crazy man!”
“You said something bad about yourself. And you said this about fifteen minutes after you last said something bad about yourself. Which is why this spanking is harder than the first one. Because you didn’t really learn your lesson the first time, did you, baby?”
“Who are you?”
He frowned. “What do you mean?”
“You are not the guy I met that day at the swimming pool. I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t have cared if I’d said something bad about myself. He probably would have just laughed it off.”
“Maybe.” He wasn’t sure. What he did know was that things had changed. And it seemed that the Malone blood was pretty strong in him too.
And Malones took care of their women. They didn’t let other men touch their women or look at them with hunger, and they definitely didn’t let anyone put their women down.
“What I do know is that you’re my girl. And my girl doesn’t speak about herself like that, or she gets her hide tanned.” He followed that up with several hard spanks on her ass that had her crying out and kicking her feet.
Damn. That was adorable.
“Maxim! Please, stop.”
“Just as soon as I make enough of an impression on your ass, that you’ll think twice about calling it fat or wide or saying you need to lose weight. Which, by the way, you do not. And I would never, ever suggest you starve. Understand me? I’m guessing you were trying to tell me that by taking an Uber, you wouldn’t have enough money to buy food?”