Pawn of the Billionaire(45)

“Keep still, Antonia.”

I screwed my eyes tightly shut. I could feel everything more intensely that way, and as his right hand slipped inside my panties and tugged them down over my ass, I bit my lip. Oh God! He’d know how wet I was, how ready for him.

“Oh. Looking forward to this then.” His voice, cool and amused. His fingers, slicking their way through my folds. My heartbeat, racing ahead with excitement. All my attention focused on my core, and the actions of his fingers as he pressed delicately forward.

Then he’d withdrawn his hand, and I moaned in disappointment. He cleaned his fingers by wiping my sticky juices onto my ass cheeks and chuckled.

“This is a punishment, Antonia. It’s not meant to be fun.” He tapped my ass. “Do you know why you’re being punished?”

I gritted my teeth. I might be aroused by being spanked, but I wasn’t going to play games with him.

“Antonia?” I stayed silent.

“If you want to play games, then that’s fine. You’ll stay right here, over my knee, until you answer my question.” A note of amusement crept into his voice. “It’d be a shame if Lawrence or David came in to tell me lunch is served, wouldn’t it?”

What? I jerked in shock. Then I felt my anger rising. He wasn’t playing fair.

I muttered something that I knew he wouldn’t hear.

“I beg your pardon? Speak up.” He sounded triumphant.

“The moment that happens is the moment our agreement is off. Sir.”

There was a moment of silence. Then. “Touche, Toni. I understand. All right, if you don’t want to tell me why you’re being punished, I’ll remind you.” His finger tapped my ass cheek. “One, you are far too familiar with staff.” He tapped the other cheek. “Two, staff can find it very awkward if you’re over familiar, and then have to require them to do something. The whole dynamic changes.” Back to tapping the first ass cheek again. “Three, this needs to be a reminder that you’ll remember.” He started rubbing my ass. “I’m afraid it will hurt.”

A smile entered his voice again. “But I think you’ll enjoy the aftermath.”

He shifted my position slightly. “Get ready.”

This was a different order of spanking. I knew that from the very first blow. He got into a rhythm very quickly. The usual — one ass cheek, then the other, then the low blow to the sweet spot at the top of my thighs. Within a couple of minutes, I was sweating with pain, trying to move forward to avoid the low blow.

I clenched my jaw. I would be damned if I’d beg him to stop. I could feel my butt stinging like crazy, and I knew my cheeks would be blazing red. I just hoped his palm would be stinging even worse. I tried to count. Last time it had been what? Twenty? I couldn’t remember. Anyway, I didn’t know how many he’d already landed on my poor ass. I wondered hazily if his arm got tired. I wondered even more hazily if he’d ever stop. Then I realized he had stopped, and his hand was rubbing my ass.

“Toni? Well done, you’ve been very brave.”

I didn’t answer him. I don’t know what had happened, but I was in a comfortable haze. The only thing that mattered was that I was with him, and I hoped for some sex pretty soon. I didn’t even mind that none of it made sense to my modern mind.

“Toni?” His voice was quiet. I felt my panties being pulled up and the sting of the pressure of them. Then he tugged my skirt back down, and was lifting me up, limp in my pleasant haze.

He chuckled. “Zoned out on me, have you?” And he tucked me into his arms and carried me over to the sofa. I gave a sigh of satisfaction as I snuggled down onto his lap, and shut my eyes again. I sensed his gaze on me and kept my head down.





James





I was humming as I dressed carefully for the evening. I wondered how Toni would take it. She thought we were just going out for dinner, but I had a surprise for her.

We’d had a good couple of weeks. The launch of Chess had gone without a hitch, and thank the Lord that she’d discovered the flaw in time. The USCF and the online Chess.com had both reviewed it favorably, and it had rocketed high in the stores.

Toni seemed to be behaving more carefully around Paul, but was sparkling with excitement over her app. She still wouldn’t tell me what it was about though, and I indulged her, wondering if she wanted to surprise me with it. Even Tom hadn’t been able to discover what it was about from Paul, though I’d told him not to push too hard.

The best part of all was that I’d discovered she was an excellent player. Most evenings we had a tournament in my suite, and I’d surprised myself by taking it so casually that we played strip chess. I grinned at my reflection.