Page 43 of Giddy Up, Daddy

He needed to handle this very carefully. “I don’t think there’s any doubt that there’s something between us.”

“You mean sex,” she said bluntly.

“I mean desire, attraction, mutual respect.”

She frowned as she studied him. “But?”

“There’s not a but, exactly. However?—”

“However is the same as but,” she interrupted him.

“Do you need to go back over my lap?” he asked her.

Fuck. He hadn’t meant to say that.

“Blakely, you’re a Little.”

“Um, yes?” she asked.

“And you deserve a Daddy. I’m not a Daddy. I’m not a Dom. And you’re right, I shouldn’t get into a relationship at the moment. I’m sorry.”

“No need to be sorry,” she told him. “I knew that. I just . . . I shouldn’t have let this happen. No more spankings or threats of spankings. Or any of this. It’s . . . it’s too confusing for me. I think . . . I can’t do casual or whatever this was. I’m sorry.”

Turning, she fled from the room.

Well.

That went well.

Chapter Thirteen

“Saw my girl the other night. Coming out of your room.”

Stafford turned from where he was eating his dinner. It was late, but Blakely had left him a plate of pot roast in the oven.

Would have tasted better earlier if you’d had the guts to come inside and eat with her.

But no, here he was eating on his own. However, he often ate alone. He was used to it. What he really did not like was that she’d stopped leaving him little notes with his lunch.

He missed those fucking notes.

Got no one to blame but yourself.

“Your girl?” Stafford muttered, turning back to his food.

“Yeah, my girl. And if you upset her, you’re going to answer to me.”

It took a moment for those words to sink in as Grandpa Jack shuffled around the table and sat opposite him.

“Answer to you?”

“To me, boy. Not so big I can’t take my belt to you.”

“You’ve never taken your belt to me.” Probably not the thing to focus on, but his brain was still trying to catch up with what was happening right now.

“Well, maybe I should have. That’s not the way you treat a girl like Blakely.”

“What are you talking about?” Stafford asked.

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