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“Your motorcycle,” Beau snorted. “Why am I not surprised? But, no. That won’t be necessary. I’ll drive you where you need to go.”
For a moment, she almost looked like she was going to protest. Wisely, she seemed to reconsider. “Okay.”
“But remember,” he added, placing a hand on her bare thigh, “even when we’re not together, you’ll still be my charge. While I’ll never compromise you, I may require certain things of you to keep you in the proper mindset while we’re apart.”
“Certain things?” she queried, looking dubious.
“That’s right. But don’t worry. I won’t ask anything that could potentially get you in trouble. As long as you’re discreet, that is,” he added with a smirk. “I’ll be the only one who knows about the dirty slut who keeps herself hidden beneath the prim and proper librarian.”
Lia’s eyes widened, her lips parting in that sexy way that made him almost want to kiss her. Clearly, she was turned on by the idea. While that wasn’t the intent of the exercise, it might be a nice byproduct.
“Obviously, I won’t always be in a position to monitor your behavior,” he continued. “We’ll rely on the honor system. Any successful D/s relationship, be it a romantic one or a trainee situation, is based on trust. That works both ways. If you’re to succeed in tapping into your inner sub, I will require rigorous honesty from you at all times.”
To his surprise, her gaze flitted away from his, color washing over her cheeks. Clearly, he’d touched a nerve.
“What is it, Lia? What’s going on with you right now?”
Slowly, she turned her head and met his gaze, her cheeks still pink. “Um. It’s just…” She trailed off, then resumed, “Do you know about the nanny cams set up all over this place? And the phone app that allows the Doms to track them?”
Beau was further confused by the apparent non sequitur and mildly annoyed by her apparent inability to answer a direct question. “What’s going on? Just tell me straight.”
She drew in a deep breath and blew it out. “I did something wrong while I was downstairs.”
Ah. Now he was getting it. It wasn’t that his words about trust had hit home. Whatever she’d done might have been witnessed by a nanny cam, so she’d decided she better confess just to be on the safe side.
Wait. He shouldn’t be so hard on her. She was trying to tell him something now. She could have taken her chances and waited to be caught, or not. Instead, she’d brought whatever it was up of her own accord.
When she didn’t immediately continue, he prodded gently, “Tell me what you have to say, Lia.”
She mumbled something unintelligible.
“Look at me,” he commanded. “And speak up so I can hear you.”
Finally, she met his gaze, color again splashing over her cheeks and throat as she blurted, “I played with myself in the shower, Sir. I touched myself without your express permission. I’m so sorry, Sir.”
He almost laughed at the irony, as he’d done the same thing himself. But this was clearly a teachable moment, and he needed to take it seriously.
“I appreciate your honesty. Though I can’t help but wonder,” he added with the ghost of a smile, “would you have confessed if there hadn’t been a camera in the vicinity?”
“I’m not exactly sure,” she admitted, her candor surprising him. “But what you said just now really made me think about what I’d done, whether or not you saw it. Maybe that old saying that what they don’t know won’t hurt them isn’t really true. Especially, as you say, in a D/s situation.”
Beau nodded, curious to see where she was going with this.
“I don’t want to just repeat my past mistakes,” she continued. “I thought I could power my way through The Enclave training, and we both know how wellthatworked out. If I’m going to do this thing, I need to give it my all. So, yeah. I fucked up, Sir. I disobeyed you, and just because you didn’t know about it, that doesn’t make it right.”
“No. It doesn’t,” he agreed. “You will be punished for your infraction.”
Her face fell. “Yes, Sir.”
“However,” he added. “I do appreciate your honesty in admitting what you did. That definitely counts for something.”
She looked up with an impish smile. “Something involving one of the new whips, Sir?” she asked eagerly.
“We’ll see,” he said with a chuckle. “Meanwhile, finish your pie.”
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Beau had decided he’d like to check out the auction. While Lia was also curious to see how it worked, she would rather have gone upstairs to get her reward for being honest. Though that also came with a punishment, she reminded herself.
