Page 37 of One Touch

“Well, you could. But then, if we did kiss, by accident, or, you know, because of a formal requirement—”

“Formal requirement?”

“Some kind of strange social situation, if that happened, then I’d get fired, right? Or be punished.”

“I’m not going to punish you.”

“Right. Spanking is completely—”

“No spanking!”

“I’m sorry. Sometimes I just say what’s in my head and I can’t help it. I’ll try harder.”

“It’s okay, don’t worry. You know, actually, I did have some rules like that.”

“No spanking?”

I massaged my temples, trying very hard not to think about spanking Lily’s pert white ass. “No. Nothing to do with spanking. It was stuff like no physical contact and no flirting, but I tore them up. I figured that we could do without them. Maybe I was wrong, though.”

“I’m sure we’ll be fine. This is a professional relationship now, and my focus is on Ava, not on whether or not you’d kiss me or spank me, or both at the same time if that’s even physically possible . . . I’m doing it again.”

“You are.”

“I’m sorry.”

“Look, I know that this is going to be good for Ava, and I’m glad of the chance to train in the evenings, but I want to be clear: nothing is going to happen between the two of us.”

No matter how much I want it to. No matter how hard I have to fight for it not to.

“Right. Good. That’s the way.” Lily nodded, her red hair catching the sunlight as she leaned forward to sign the contract. Her hand brushed mine as she passed the pen back, sending a jolt of electricity through my body.

“There,” she said, her voice barely above a whisper. “All signed.”

I swallowed hard, trying to ignore the tension between us. “Great. Tomorrow is the first night I’ll be on call.”

“So, it’s not for sure you’ll be out?”

“Might be in. Or I might be called out after you and Ava are asleep.”

“Makes sense. If it’s okay with you, I’ll head back to the store for the rest of the afternoon, then I’ll collect Ava from school at—when was it—3:15?”

I was impressed that she remembered the schedule. “Great. Thanks, Lily.”

“No worries. I think this is going to work out great.”

“Me too,” I lied.

Phew. I’d made it. The contract was signed, and we were about to settle into a routine. I felt so confident that as she walked away from the house, I even glanced at her ass for a second. The tiniest second.

The instant I did it, of course, I knew it was a mistake. As I watched her lithe form walk away from me, I realized that I was going to be living with my god-damn sexual fantasy for the indefinite future.

Chapter 9

Lily

Ididn’t get muchdone in the store that afternoon.

My brain was still buzzing from all the spanking chat with Ethan.

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