“You wouldn’t dare,” she hissed, scrambling backwards as he moved toward her.

“I guess we’re about to find out.”

CHAPTER FIVE

Zade

Fulack!He never should have brought her there. He was treating her like she was his, first kissing her, then planning to spank her like he had the right.She chose Antonelius. Again. Forget about the spanking. She doesn’t want you. Let her go.

Knowing she would probably hate him in truth before the day was over, he used his preternatural speed to close the distance between them, then wrapped his arms around her, picked her up and carried her over to the nearest chair. Wriggling and cursing at him the whole time, he still managed to get her draped over his lap, one hand holding her in place, the other resting on her soft jean-clad bottom.

“Zade, I mean it! You can’t spank me! I already said I was sorry once. This isn’t funny. I want to leave." She couldn’t believe she’d been about to screw his brains out.

“I told you, I will let you go after we are done here, not before.” Without warning, he gave her an open handed smack on her bottom. The sound echoed through the room like a crack of thunder.

“Hey! That hurt!” She hissed as heat spread across her skin. Tears of humiliation and pain sprang to her eyes, but she refused to let them fall.

“That’s one. Let’s see. What did you call me? Callous?”

Smack!

“Damn it!”

“Hold still.”

Smack!

“Self absorbed?”

Smack!

“Don’t forget ‘alien bastard’,” she quipped. “Wouldn’t want to miss that one, you neanderthal!” she fumed. Her ass was on fire. He was too big and too strong for her to get away now. She was stuck. There was nothing she could do; nothing but plot her revenge.

Smack!

Zade’s voice hardened to tempered steel. “I think you ignored my warning because you desired the consequence. Think about that when you run to Antonelius. He’s so uptight, I doubt he could give you what you need even if he wanted to. Now count," he ordered.

“That’s ridiculous!”

Smack!

Smack!

“You’re not counting.”

“Sixty-three!”she shouted.

Zade didn’t even crack a smile at her sass. “Are you sure? I’m almost certain that was only six. Looks like we’ll have to start over.”

Ashlyn screamed in rage. He had the gall to suggest she wanted a spanking? Needed it?! Her bottom was probably cherry red. Both cheeks burned and throbbed. She might only feel the sting for a few minutes, but she would remember itfor years.Wasn’t it enough that Rachel roped me into a crazy, dangerous plot?Bad enough I’m going to have to meet an entire Council full of hostile aliens who probably want me dead. Now I’ll have to do it with a sore ass?!

Smack! Smack!

“One! Two! I hate you!” she screamed in rhyme.

“Neanderthal. That is a human cave dweller who has not mastered language, yes? And bastard? We do not have these concepts on Caldor, but still, I understand you meant them to be insults, so they shall be treated as such.”

Smack!