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The Dom inside him—the part that had been awakened by their stay in the PPP Dome and the things they had done there—swelled with righteous anger. It whispered to Sev that his sub was misbehaving—engaging in dangerous, self-harming behavior. Behavior that had to stopnow.
Sev didn’t even try to fight it. Pointing to his lap he gave Mia a stern look and said, “Over my knee.”
“What?” Mia took a step back from him, her eyes going wide. Clearly she hadn’t expected this.
“You heard me.” Sev pointed to his lap again. “I said,over my knee. Now,Mia!” he added in such a stern voice he knew she wouldn’t dare to disobey.
Unwillingly, as though tugged by some invisible chain, Mia approached him.
“You wouldn’t dare,” she whispered. “We’re not in the PPP Dome anymore, Sev.”
“Call me ‘Sir.’ And it doesn’t matter where we are, you can’t mistreat yourself like this.” Sev growled. “Now take off that ridiculous robe and get your ass over my knee!”
“You can’t do this to me—I…I’m a grown woman,” she protested. But there was a breathless quality to her voice and Sev could hear her heart pounding as she slipped off the robe and let it fall to the floor.
“I’m doing it, baby girl,” he growled. “Get up on my lap right now and take what’s coming to you!”
Mia’s eyes went even wider but she came to him anyway. To Sev’s satisfaction, she lay on the couch, arranging herself face down across his lap with her ass in the air.
“Good,” he said. “Now I’m going to give you a bare-ass spanking for being so stubborn. Understand?”
Mia didn’t look up but he heard a muffled “Yes, Sir,” which he approved of.
Reaching down, he pulled up the hem of her night shirt to bare her full, luscious ass. Then he began to spank her.
He didn’t go too hard—the idea was to teach her a lesson and get her to talk, not hurt her. But he didn’t go too soft either—the spanking was a real punishment for putting herself in danger and itoughtto sting.
“Oh! Oh, please, Sir!” Mia gasped and writhed on his lap until he had to hold her down. Wrapping one arm around her, he continued with her punishment.Smack…smack…smack…His big hand rose and fell, turning her ass sunset red before he finally let her up.
By then she was crying, the tears filling her clear gray eyes in a way that twisted Sev’s heart. She had needed the punishment, but he hated to see her upset.
“Come here, baby,” he murmured, turning her over and pulling her against his chest. “It’s okay—everything is going to be all right now.” He stroked her long hair away from her face and waited for her to get control of herself.
Mia swiped at her eyes and pressed close to him. Sev was glad to see that she was willing to take the comfort he was offering. Maybe the spanking had softened her up and they could finally get to the root of what was hurting her.
“All right, baby girl,” he said softly. “Now tell me—why did I spank you?”
“I…because I was putting myself in danger…Sir?” Mia said, looking up at him uncertainly.
“That’s part of it.” Sev nodded. “What else?”
She shook her head.
“I don’t know.”
“Because you’re shutting me out,” Sev explained patiently. “You’re hurting—I can see that. But until you tell me what’s hurting you, I can’t help you, baby girl.” He stroked her flushed cheek gently and looked into her eyes. “Talk to me, Mia. What’s wrong?”
“I…” She bit her lip and looked down at her hands. “It’s so…soembarrassing.”
“Tell me anyway,” Sev said. Guessing, he asked, “Does it have to do with those images they were showing on the screen when I found you in the Inner Sanctum?” That felt right because he remembered how ashamed she’d been—how she’d tried to take the caning because she’d been, as she said, “wrong and dirty.”
“That’s…part of it,” she confessed and her cheeks went even pinker, letting him know he’d guessed correctly. “It’s just…that’s not the first time something like that has…has happened to me. And it…it reminded me of how bad I am and how I don’t…don’t deserve to be happy.”
“What?” Sev frowned. He’d had an idea that the time they spent at the PPP Dome had stirred up bad memories of the past for Mia—the same way they had evoked his own past on his home planet. But he still didn’t know what those memories were. “Why would you think you’re bad and you don’t deserve to be happy, baby?” he asked her gently. “What happened to make you think that?”
“I guess I might as well tell you,” she said dully. “You already saw what I was doing on that screen.”
“What? Touching yourself?” Sev shrugged, uncertain why this was such a problem. “Why is that a big deal? I mean, I know it must have been embarrassing for everyone to see it—those bastards—showing it like that!” Just the thought of how her privacy had been violated made him angry all over again. “But everybody does it—touches themselves, I mean.”
