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of your bodyguards.”
    That was what Lissa had thought he’d said.

Chapter 6
    She was too stunned to argue as Asher took hold of her arm once they emerged from the hospital, before guiding her toward a black SUV in the car park. His associate, Zander, walked over to get in behind the wheel of a second SUV.
    “So what happens now?” she prompted as Asher made no effort to start the engine once they were both seated in the front of the powerful vehicle.
    He glanced at her. “Well, first you apologize for behaving like a spoilt brat by talking to me that way in front of your father. Then—”
    “What?” Lissa instantly bristled at his domineering tone, her hands clenching on her thighs.
    “You heard me.” His tone remained unrelenting, hard. “I want an apology from you for having been as much of a bitch as your mother.”
    “How dare you!” The last thing Lissa ever wanted was to be anything like her mother.
    Asher’s jaw clenched. “Don’t challenge me.”
    “I don’t recall saying anything that wasn’t true.” Her tiredness and Asher’s uncompromising tone made her stubbornly determined not to back down.
    “You called the employees of Knight Security incompetent. Implied we’re responsible for your father being shot.”
    “If the cap— What the hell are you doing?” Lissa gasped as Asher pressed a button on the door beside him and his seat automatically moved all the way back before he reached out and hauled her over onto his side of the SUV. “Let me go, damn it!” She fought against the arm he had placed across her back to keep her in place facedown across his thighs.
    “Pity about the denim,” he bit out harshly as he easily fended off all her struggles. “I’ll have to make sure I make the spanks doubly hard if you’re going to feel it.”
    “ Asher! ” Lissa barely had time to gasp out his name before his hand landed painfully on her jeans-clad bottom. “You really are an asshole!” she choked.
    “Watch your mouth,” he growled as he landed another painful smack on her bottom. “You aren’t the only one who had no sleep last night, you know.” And another one. “Nor have you been treated like shit this morning by the person you went to bed with yesterday.” And another.
    “How come you’re allowed to swear and I’m not?” She turned her head to glare at him, her dignity in tatters. She had never been spanked in her life before, nor was it turning out to be the sensuous pleasure she had imagined earlier. Asher’s hand hurt, damn it.
    “Because, as usual, you’ve pissed me off.” Ash was enjoying spanking Lissa much more than he should have. There was something hot about feeling her firm flesh beneath the palm of his hand, as well as the satisfaction of delivering the well-deserved chastisement.
    “And now you’re pissing me off.” Those topaz eyes had fire blazing in their depths.
    “I can live with that,” he dismissed as he landed another smack. “I’m still waiting for that apology.”
    “Go to hell!”
    Ash landed three smacks in quick succession. “I told you to watch your mouth.”
    “I don’t answer to you.”
    “News flash, Lissa—right here and right now, I’m exactly who you’ll answer to.”
    “When hell freezes over!”
    “I could just keep spanking you,” he considered. “Problem is, it’s not a punishment when you’re enjoying it so much…” Ash mused as he realized her squirms were now accompanied by throaty moans. “You like having your bottom spanked.” His hand squeezed and caressed the twin orbs of her shapely bottom.
    The cheeks on Lissa’s face burned almost as hotly as the ones on her bottom at the truth of his words. Her only consolation was the windows were tinted, so hopefully no one else—including the man in the other SUV—had been able to look inside the vehicle and see what Asher was doing.
    And, in spite of the pain, the sting to the flesh on her smacked backside had caused a heat between her thighs that dampened