Well.
That just sucked.
“I wasn’t lying, exactly. I was just evading the truth.”
“Evading the truth sounds like another way of saying lying.”
“Why do you have to be so clever?”
“I have brought two girlfriends here. But obviously, they didn’t work out. And that was several years ago. I haven’t dated anyone in well over two years. The last person I brought here was my sister, Alina, when she was over for a visit. And one of her men was with us. I’m a member so I had to come with them to give them access. None of them meant as much to me as you do.”
Great.
Now she felt awful.
Because she didn’t want to hurt him. She didn’t want this to end badly.
But it likely would.
Like everything she touched, it would probably turn to shit.
“We all have pasts, baby,” he told her. “And I don’t regret anything in my past. Because it all led me here, to this moment, to you.”
“How are you so damn perfect,” she complained.
He grinned. “I think you were calling me a caveman before, so I’m not sure that perfect is the right word to use.”
Salem was perfect compared to her.
“Little one? Are you upset?”
“Just with myself for earning extras,” she grumbled.
“Poor baby,” he mused. “You are in trouble, aren’t you?”
“Maybe you could just forget about those extras?” she suggested.
“I could. But I’m not going to. That wouldn’t set a good precedent now, would it?”
“Do you always do the right thing?”
“I try to.”
And that was the difference between them. Because she wasn’t sure she’d ever done the right thing in her life.
“I don’t know that I’ve always done that.” She bit her lip. She wanted to say more, but she couldn’t. But the guilt was kind of overwhelming her. “Am I a really naughty girl, Daddy?”
Part of her wanted to take it back, but she had to know. Perhaps she really did deserve this spanking. She had disobeyed him. And she had most definitely lied.
Oh, how she’d lied.
So much that she probably deserved to be spanked every day for the rest of her life.
Although maybe she wouldn’t tell him that because she did quite enjoy sitting.
“Hey, we’re all a bit naughty sometimes.” He cupped the side of her face, staring down at her.
“Not you,” she said. “You’re perfect.”