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I shoved him again. “You didn’t answer my question.”
He caught my hands and lowered them to my thighs. “Stop hitting me. You keep doing it, I’ll think you want to be hit back. And since the only place I’d ever hit a woman is on her ass after she begs for it, well…”
Heat flooded my core. Every time he threatened to spank me, I had the urge to present myself to him like a wild animal, ass up, face down.
“I would never beg you.” At least I’d managed to say it with conviction, though I didn’t feel it. Not in the least.
“We both know that’s not true. But that’s not what we’re talking about, is it? We’re talking about you backing out on our bet. I gotta admit, I’m disappointed in you. I thought you had a little more integrity than that.”
“Oh, Lachlan.” I shook my head. He wasn’t going to get me with that. “Wrong button to push.”
He exhaled and let go of my hands. “All right. How about this?” Rising from the bench, he slung his backpack over his shoulder and offered me a hand.
I hopped up on my own, scowling at him. If I didn’t scowl, I’d laugh, because he looked so grumpy, and this was the most ridiculously fun argument I’d had in a long time.
And then, he had to go spoil it.
Bending his knees, he grabbed me by the back of my thighs and hoisted me over his shoulder. I shrieked, but he patted my butt and started walking with me hanging upside down.
“Quiet, Elsa.” His bark was mocking. I could almost hear the laugh under it.
“You think this is funny, asshole?” I slapped at his back and butt and kicked my feet in protest. His arm was an iron bar around my legs.
“I told you not to hit me,” he said calmly.
“You’re kidnapping me. You don’t get to have the moral high ground, buddy.”
He walked so carefully, his steps a mile long, I was barely being jostled. If I cared what anyone on this campus thought of me, I would have been humiliated. I wasn’t, though. What I was feeling came from the rage family.
“I’m walking you to my truck, which was part of the wager.” He swatted my ass lightly. “You agreed to this. I’m just taking you at your word.”
“The wager is null and void.” I wiggled on his shoulder. “And you said you wouldn’t spank me unless I begged.”
His palm came down on my butt again, hardly more than a pat. “If you think this is spanking, you’ll be in for a surprise.”
God, how did he continually make my panties wet? This was a problem.
“I won’t be in for a surprise because I’ll never experience that. I don’t beg.”
Suddenly, my world went from upside down to right side up and my feet were on the ground again. Dizzy from the vantage change, I stumbled into Lachlan. He caught me under the elbows, holding me upright and steady.
Blinking, I blew my hair out of my face and took in my surroundings. We were in the student parking lot, next to Lachlan’s old crusty truck.
“You good?” he rumbled.
“I’m fine now that I’m not being tossed around like a rag doll.”
He laughed, and it was so deep and resonant, I felt it in my chest. His teeth were perfectly white and straight except for one eyetooth. It was slightly twisted, making it stick out from the others. I wondered about that tooth. Why did the rest of them line up while that one rebelled? Was it natural? Or a braces mishap?
I caught myself drifting closer to Lachlan, my head tipped back as I studied his slowly disappearing smile.
“Let’s get you home.” But he took another long moment to release his hold on me.
“I can buckle myself into the truck this time,” I said.
He huffed lowly, ignoring me otherwise. The truck door creaked open, and he all but shoved me in. Then he strapped me in like he did every time, giving it a tug to ensure it was properly in place. I gasped as it tightened across my lap even though I’d been expecting it. His head swiveled to look at me, bringing us face to face. His eyes swept from my parted lips to meet my gaze.
“Okay?” he asked.
