Page 101 of Perfect Harmony

She shrieked when the liquid spilled acrossher ass, but Gideon pushed her hands away and gently massaged the liquid intoher sore ass cheeks. “It will help, baby.”

She stopped fighting him and laid quietly,letting him rub more liquid onto her ass. He was right, it did help, and aftera few minutes she lifted her head and stared at him.

He kissed her nose and switched to rubbingher lower back. “You okay?”

“My ass hurts,” she said. “That was not asexy spanking.”

He laughed. “I told you it wouldn’t be.”

She turned carefully on her side, happy whenGideon set the bottle on the nightstand, then pulled the covers over them bothbefore pressing the length of his lean body against hers and putting his arm aroundher waist.

“I liked it,” she said.

“I know.”

She glared at him and he shrugged, givingher that careless smile she loved. “It makes me very happy that you like it,Gracie.”

“Why?” she said. “If this is it for us,does it matter that I like being spanked? That I actually like the loss ofcontrol in the bedroom? This is it for us, right? Hell, I don’t even know whyyou fucked me tonight.”

Gracie, shut up!

She really should. Talking about thiswould only remind him that they couldn’t be together, and he’d send her back toher own room where she’d lie awake until the morning.

But she needed to know. She would beleaving tomorrow, heading to Addie’s place until she figured out what the fuck shewas going to do for a permanent place to live, so what did it matter if shepissed him off?

If you shut the hell up, you could atleast get a decent night’s sleep before you leave.

Her inner voice was grouchy. Now that herbody was sated with the orgasm, her brain wanted sleep. Needed sleep.

“Why didn’t you go to Addie’s today?” hesaid.

“I… well because… look, I can go, okay? I’msorry that -”

“I’m not asking you to leave,” he saidimpatiently. “I’m asking you to tell me why you didn’t go to Addie’s. Youknew there would be tension between us tonight, but you stayed. Why? Tell methe truth.”

“Because I hoped you would fuck me again,okay?” She tried to hold in her temper, but it was a losing battle. “There, doesthat make you happy? I stayed because I hoped that maybe you wouldn’t be ableto resist me, and we’d have sex again. And yeah, I know how pathetic that makesme sound, Gideon.”

“It doesn’t,” he said. “And it worked – wehad sex again tonight.”

“Well, congratulations to me,” she said.

He kissed her forehead. “Listen to me,Grace. I fully expected that you would be at Addison’s when I got home fromwork. And do you know what my plan was?”

She stared up at him, suddenly fascinated bythe way his eyes had darkened. “What was your plan?”

“I was going to go over to Addie’s place. Iwas going to make up some bullshit excuse and go to Addie’s place where I wouldmake up another bullshit excuse about you breaking a rule so that I could spankand fuck you.”

She swallowed hard. “Are you serious?”

“Yes,” he said. “Luckily for me, you werestill here, and you actually broke a rule.”

She blushed, and he grinned down at herbefore kissing her forehead again. “I got hard the fucking second I heard theshower turn on, Princess. I knew exactly what you were doing in there, and ittook everything in me not to join you in the shower and fuck you.”

“Why are you telling me this?” she said. “Whatdifference does it make? You got what you wanted most – you spanked me. So,now it ends between us.”

“It’s not out of my system yet,” he said. “Isit out of yours?”

“No,” she said.

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