Page 151 of A Very Naughty Christmas

“Yes, sir,” she said and started toward the bathroom.

“Kendra?” he called after her, waiting until she turned and looked at him. “No clothes.”

She felt her face heat again and wondered how it was still possible to blush when a man had known her as intimately as Derek. “Yes, sir,” Kendra said again before dashing into the restroom and out of sight.

Kendra took her time in the bathroom, doing her best to dispel the circles under her eyes and the redness in her nose and cheeks. She wanted to look pretty for Derek. She dried her hair and then brushed it till it shone and lotioned her entire body in Lavender and Honey from Bath and Body Works.

Finally satisfied she looked as good as she was going to, she opened the door and walked back into the living room, stark naked.

Derek looked up from where he was sitting on the couch, paging through one of her magazines. “About time, I thought I was going to have to come in after you.”

Kendra blushed. “I’m sorry I took so long.”

He shook his head and got up, walking to her for a quick hug. “I was teasing, baby, you’re fine. I ordered us a pepperoni pizza, does that work?”

“That sounds wonderful,” she exclaimed, realizing she was hungry for the first time in days.

“I’ll serve it up while you go get your phone,” he told her.

“My phone?” Kendra asked in confusion.

“Yes, I intend to make sure nothing like the last few days ever happens again; go on and get it,” Derek instructed.

She ran and got her phone and brought it to the kitchen where Derek was setting a plate with two slices of pizza on it down next to a glass of tea. Kendra handed him her phone as she sat down; it felt weird to be sitting on her kitchen chairs naked with him fully clothed.

“Thank you. Eat up,” he told her with a grin as he began punching numbers into her phone. “I’m entering my cell, home, and my parents’ number. You and I will never be out of contact again, barring a complete phone outage.”

She smiled around her pizza, pleased he was making sure she felt secure. Once he’d entered his numbers in her phone, he called his cell with her phone, then saved the number.

“Now that’s taken care of, I can eat,” Derek told her with a smile. They were both hungry and made short work of the pizza.

Dinner finished, Kendra began toying nervously with her napkin. Derek cleared away the mess. “You stay right where you are, little miss,” he said when she moved to help. Then he moved one of the chairs into the center of the room and sat down.

“Come here, Kendra,” he said firmly, holding out a hand.

She took a deep breath and got up from the table, walking to him and placing her hand trustingly in his.

“Do you know why you’re about to be spanked?” he asked.

“Because I was rude to Serena,” she said quietly.

“Not because you were rude to Serena, because you were unprofessional and you’re better than that… I expect you to be the bigger person. I will hold you to a higher standard than the rest of the employees, do you know why?” Derek asked.

“Because I’m yours?” Kendra asked.

“Partly, but mostly I will expect more because you’re capable of more. You will be the bigger person because you are the bigger person… a better person,” he told her. Then, cupping her face in his hands, he kissed her lips and smoothed a stray hair behind her ear. “More than that though, I’m spanking you because we need to reconnect in the most fundamental way possible. I’m going to spank you hard then reclaim what belongs to me. To remind us both of how precious this is and that we can never allow anyone to come between us again.”

She shook her head in agreement. “Never again.”

“Are you ready?” he asked.

“Yes,” Kendra said quietly, then went willingly when with a gentle tug he pulled her face down over his lap.

“Good girl,” Derek said as he tilted her a little further over and scissored her legs between his own. He brought his hand down firmly on her left sit spot, making her jerk with a gasp as an intense sting immediately bloomed in its wake.

His hand fell hard and fast repeatedly in the exact same spot until she was trying to buck off his lap but his legs held her in place. He switched to the other side and spanked it in the exact same way, then switched back to the first cheek until tears were dripping down her cheeks.

The spanking went on and on, the sting building until with a sob she collapsed over his lap and gave herself completely over to his discipline.

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