“After your punishment, we can snuggle and go to bed.”

CHAPTER THIRTY

RAINEY

Rainey rubbed her hands together as nerves rolled in her stomach. They had been home for a coupleof minutes, and she was waiting for her punishment. She felt awful about everything she’d done. She should have gone to Daddy, but she was so worried he wouldn’t let her do anything.

Probably for the better, she hadn’t. It had been extremely dangerous for her to go out like that by herself, especially when she didn’t know Deccan or how he was going to act.

“Are you ready, Little girl?”

She shook her head but walked toward Daddy anyway. It wasn’t really a question, and she knew that. Who was ever going to be ready for a punishment? Not her.

“I’m sorry, Daddy.”

“I know you are. I’m letting you know up front that this punishment isn’t like any other. You’ll be getting ginger up your bottom while you get your spanking. Then you’ll have corner time and lines.”

“Daddy,” she whined.

“No whining unless you want it to be more.”

Sighing, she stopped and looked at him.

Daddy ran his hands through her hair. “You know what you did was bad. Lying to Daddy several times, keeping the note away from me, and putting yourself in danger.”

“I know, but I just wanted to do this.”

“I would have taken care of it for you. Rainey, I want you and our baby safe. What if I wasn’t there and Deccan did something?”

“I’m sorry.”

Daddy kissed her forehead.

“I’m going to give you two choices. We can split up the punishment and do half today and half tomorrow or all of it today.”

“All of it today.”

Rainey didn’t think she could handle it spread across days. She would constantly worry about when it was going to come, and the guilt wouldn’t go away. But maybe that was for the best. Maybe she should feel guilty about lying to him, keeping things from him, and putting herself in danger.

“All right, all of it is going to happen today. Now, what do you want to do first? Spanking and ginger or lines and corner time?”

She bit her tongue as she wanted to tell him none of it. It wasn’t the right time, not when she had been so naughty and caused him a lot of worry.

“Spanking and ginger.”

Rainey knew those were going to be worse than lines andcorner time. Or so she thought. She had a spanking before, but never with ginger.

“We’re going to do this a little differently than the time before. You’re going to be on your knees with your bottom out, so you aren’t on your feet.”

Daddy helped her out of her pants and underwear, setting two pillows down on the ground before helping her get into position. She let out a sigh as the weight left her feet. Rainey was on her knees, her bump between her and the couch as her head and arms rested there.

“If you get uncomfortable in this position, you let Daddy know right away.”

“Yes, Daddy.”

“Tomorrow, you aren’t going to be on your feet. I don’t want to hear it. You have been on your feet too much, and tomorrow I’m going to pamper you. Give you foot massages, soak them, and keep you off them.”

Rainey wasn’t going to complain about that. It sounded like heaven.