“Kalina,” he growled, giving her a shake.She sighed, turning her head back and forth, then letting it flop back down again.Still not awake.She was every bit as difficult to wake up as had been reported.
 
 The times he’d come into her bedroom… maybe she was less difficult when she first went to sleep?
 
 Or maybe she had not been asleep at all.
 
 Well.
 
 He would see if she could sleep throughthis.
 
 Kalina
 
 Pleasure slid through her dream, making her senses tingle.It was a dream, she knew that, a memory of how Nathanial enjoyed burying his face between her legs.A dream… yet the pleasure felt so real.
 
 She moaned.
 
 But not just in the dream.
 
 Kalina heard her moan, from a distance, as though her real self was miles away.
 
 Why was she moaning?
 
 The pleasure surged, a direct hit to the little nubbin between her thighs, and she gasped as the sensations drew her up out of the dream.Floundering, confused, her hands moved toward her pussy, only to meet the top of her husband’s head.
 
 Nathanialwasbetween her thighs, again, his mouth suckling at her tender bits, waking her with pleasure.
 
 “Oh!”She shuddered as she finally came fully awake, surprised and pleased to find her husband still in her bed and shocked at his actions.
 
 Rather than taking her to completion, Nathanial lifted his head, his hazel eyes glittering at her as he stared down at her.
 
 “Kalina.”His voice was even.Neutral.And it sent a shiver up her spine.“You are very difficult to wake up.”
 
 “I… you knew that.”
 
 He raised an eyebrow at her.
 
 “Did I?You have woken quite easily every time I have come to your bed in the evenings.”
 
 “I have not been asleep,” she explained.Her body was aching, her needy pussy pulsing.As if he could read her mind, his fingers slipped between her thighs, sliding between the slick folds, stroking her and making it hard for her to think as she answered him.“There have been a few times I was close to, but once I realized you would be coming regularly, I could not fall asleep until after you had.”
 
 His finger slipped inside her, making her moan as her hips lifted, her body clenching around him.
 
 “So, the night at the house party.You truly did not awaken when your father put me in your bed.”
 
 Kalina shook her head back and forth, reaching up to grasp the pillow beneath it, gasping as he crooked his finger inside her, stroking an exquisitely sensitive spot.
 
 “Kalina.”
 
 “What?”He was teasing her.Tormenting her.Her body was buzzing from the sensual assault, and he wanted to ask her questions?How was she supposed to focus on what he was saying under these circumstances?
 
 “The night at the house party.When your father put me in your bed.You truly did not wake until the morning.”
 
 “I did not.”She shook her head again, mewling as the base of his hand pressed against her clitoris, hard enough that her hips lifted into the air… then the pressure was gone.His fingers were gone.
 
 The world turned upside down and righted itself as he flipped her onto her stomach.Kalina barely had time to take in a surprised breath before his hand came crashing down onto her bottom, still sensitive from the spanking he’d given her last night.She shrieked in response as the hot sting jolted through her.
 
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