decided to do to her. She was really placing her safety in his hands.
What Cally remembered most were his eyes. Dark and penetrating. As if he could see right through her. Read her desires as if they were etched on her very soul. Although her body did a pretty good job of betraying her feelings to him too. He was the type of man she would have said yes to, if he’d picked her up in a nightclub. It gave her a thrill of anticipation about what was to come. Put a whole new spin on the term office job.
Cally was silently congratulating herself on a job well done, when the door catch clicked quietly into place. She froze on the far side of the door. There was nothing she could have done to prevent the mechanism working. Had he heard?
Her heart sank as she heard Jake jump up so fast his chair nearly turned over. He pounded toward her, yanking open the door that had taken her several minutes to shut, in two seconds flat.
‘I told you to close the door silently. I thought we were getting somewhere. That you had understood. I give the instructions and you follow them. To the letter.’ He was raising his voice.
Any protest about it not being her fault died on her lips as he grasped her wrist. He knew she couldn’t fulfil the task. He had set her up to fail, so he could punish her some more. God, he really got off on punishing her. His fingers circled her delicate bones easily and he pulled her back toward the centre of the room roughly.
He grabbed the back of a chair, sat down heavily and heaved her easily, unsteady as she was on her stilettos, face down across his lap. He sat a moment until she had stopped struggling to right herself, and, no doubt, to give her a minute to consider what was coming next, then he smoothed the fabric of her skirt slowly but firmly over her bottom, copping a good, lengthy feel of the curves and valleys at the same time. So different to Mathers.
Every second or third slow, precise word of his was accompanied by a firm spank. ‘When I order you to do something, you will do it immediately. Exactly the way I say it is to be done.’ On her already heated posterior, the feeling was excruciatingly fraught. Each beat hurt and excited in equal measure. She was already back to her squirming need to orgasm, writhing over his knee to get some relief.
He ended up with three firm slaps. ‘Is that clear?’ Just so she was in no doubt, he ordered her response. ‘Answer me.’ He dragged her to her knees before him and curled his fingertips round her jaw to force her to look up at him.
Cally could feel her face glowing to match her rear. From being upside down, from the humiliation of being spanked across a handsome stranger’s knee, and from the excitement that she was certain he could detect, building in her body and her mind.
‘Yes, sir. Yes.’ She was breathless. ‘I’m sorry.’
He leant forward and kissed her gently on the mouth. His firm lips were a soft graze upon her throbbing ones. She longed for the blessing to continue, but he withdrew coldly from her.
‘Now it is clear to me,’ he began, ‘that I cannot allow you to return home. You will be retained in my service for 24 hours a day.’
She opened her lips slightly as if to protest and his fingers bit into her jaw in reminder that she had no say in the matter.
He continued. ‘At first I thought I could trust you to obey. To go home, still complying with my instructions, but I can see you are a wilful young woman. One who thinks she knows what is best for her. You need further correction and training before I can allow you a little freedom. You may respond.’
‘I –’
He cut her short. ’You see. You have failed to thank me for allowing you a word. Again I am proven correct in my assessment of you. Wilful. This behaviour must be amended. You need to be corrected for your faults until you truly learn obedience to your employer.’ He leant in and rubbed his jaw along hers, inhaling her perfume. ‘Speak.’
‘Thank you,