HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION (An Erotic Billionaire Romance) novel Chapter 34

Alaric’s POV:

Fuck. Me.

It should’ve pissed me off that Meadow was willing to go to this length just to stop me from killing that

bastard when she couldn’t even give me a reason not to.

And it did. Pissed me the hell off.

But the words she had just whispered appealed to me in a way that no one else would understand. Not even her. They appealed to a part of me I wasn’t ready to show her yet, and I could hear it calling out to me.

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Meadow wasn’t ready. Not yet.

Raising my hand to cup her face, I stroked her cheek with my thumb. “You have no idea what you’re asking, Meadow.”

She inhaled shakily, trembling beneath my touch. I could already feel the fabric of my pants tightening.

Too innocent.

Too damn innocent.

“I think I do,” she whispered, removing her hands from my shoulders as she bowed slightly, like she was trying to hide from me.

“Do tell,” I muttered, moving my hand from her cheek to the back of neck. I squeezed, and she looked up at me again, bottom lip quivering so lightly, I never would’ve noticed if I wasn’t watching her carefully.

This woman was going to make me lose my fucking mind.

She swallowed. “Spanking me…” she trailed off. It sounded like a question, like she wasn’t sure what I wanted to do to her and was really just guessing.

I lowered my voice, leaning in slightly as I watched her doe eyes widen. Before I could prevent it, a dark chuckle slipped out of me.

“There are many other beautiful ways I could punish you. But, say I’m giving you a spanking… you’re willing to atone for a sin that wasn’t committed by you?” I played with the back of her hair, watching her eyes flutter in response. “How heroic, Meadow. But what makes you think I’m willing to accept that?”

Meadow dared to roll her eyes, and my mouth twitched. I already knew what she was going to say.

“Come on, Alaric.” She bit down on her bottom lip. “Don’t pretend you haven’t been itching to punish me from the very first day I did something I wasn’t supposed to.”

Blood rushed to my cock, and my pants tightened even more now. Meadow knew. She knew what she’d been doing.

“So you know you’ve been testing me, yeah?” I asked. “Making demands, leaving the house without telling me.”

I glanced at the door, and when I looked back at Meadow, the expression in her eyes made me want to kiss her, and at the same time, punish her for being a brat. I continued. “Leaving the room when I specifically asked you not to? You’ve been on a roll, Meadow, so of course I want to punish you.”

And then I leaned in, brushing my lips against her warm neck. “But I don’t deliver that kind of punishment using my bare hands, baby girl.”

Meadow let out a soft gasp, whimpering as I pressed a kiss to the side of her neck and pulled back to look at her.

And this vision? Her sitting on my desk, trembling beneath my touch…

Wearing my damn t–shirt?

She was my undoing. And I was going to punish her for it.

She swallowed. “What do you use, then?”

My jaw clenched. I considered telling her about the Tether room, but I wasn’t ready to show her yet. And I couldn’t tell her about it without showing her exactly what I used to deliver punishments. So I glanced down between us at my belt.

Meadow followed my gaze, letting out sharp breath when she saw what I was referring to.

My belt.

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