Page 16 of Dominion

“And leave the one with the explosives in it.”

She went still for a moment, her head lifting.

His heart skipped a beat. She hadn’t known about the bomb. Satisfaction warmed his blood. He rested his hand on her blazing cheeks.

“Who gave you the laptop?”

“I don’t know.”

He resumed spanking. “Who hired you?”

“No one hired me.”

He spanked harder.

“Wait!” she cried. “It’s true—no one hired me. They kidnapped my sister!”

He froze, his hand mid-air.

“They said they would bring her tonight, but she wasn’t there.” Ashley’s voice sounded strangled.

Ashley abruptly foundherself lifted upright and plopped on Ben’s knee, his green eyes boring through her.

“It’s true,” she whispered, seeing he was searching for something in her face.

“You should have come to me,” he said, his voice hard like steel.

Her bottom throbbed, his jeans rough against her bare skin. She swallowed. “They said they’d kill her,” she croaked.

He pursed his lips. The intensity with which he regarded her had an animal-like quality—as if he was a hunter and she his prey.

The memory of the huge wolf leaping over her car flashed in her mind. “What are you?” she whispered.

Abruptly, he stood, shoving her to her feet. “Go stand in the corner with your panties down,” he said, pointing to the juncture of two walls, his expression dangerous.

She didn’t even think of not obeying—he had her so cowed, she would have dropped to her knees and licked his shoe if he’d ordered it.

She shuffled across the room, putting her nose in the corner, intensely aware of her bare ass on full display. She wondered how red it looked. Her cheeks felt hot and stingy and for some bizarre reason, her pussy pulsed in rhythm with the throb there.

“I’m stepping outside. Don’t move, not even an inch from that corner. If you do, I will spank you again and this time it will be with my belt.”

She shivered, but need made her dare to ask, “What if I have to pee?” She peeked over her shoulder at him.

His eyes narrowed. “Do you?”

“Yes.”

“Go now, then,” he said.

She walked toward the bathroom, grabbing one side of her panties with her bound hands and trying to pull them up.

“Leave them,” he barked.

She looked over to find him trailing behind her toward the bathroom.

“What are you doing?”

“Keeping an eye on you.” He leaned in the doorway to the bathroom and folded his arms across his chest.

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