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“Maybe I should go back to gagging you.” He sent her a stern look.
She pressed her lips together.
“Listen to me. We are not having money problems.”
She appeared unconvinced.
“The thing is . . . the shop has gotten busy. Incredibly busy. And I thought that hiring Cruz would help, but he’s just brought in more business.”
“That sounds like it should be a good thing, but your tone says otherwise.”
“It is a good thing. But we’re becoming too big for the shop. We need to hire more people, except there’s no more room for them.”
“We have to shift to another shop?” She bit her lip. “All right . . . if that’s what we have to do. Do we have the money to do that?”
“We’d need to get a loan. I’ve got some money. But rather than move, I was actually thinking of starting a second shop.”
“Really?” She suddenly smiled. “Now, that’s a clever idea.”
“Thanks, I have them occasionally,” he said dryly.
“Aww, Daddy. Don’t put yourself down.” She waggled a finger in his face. “You have them more than occasionally.”
He caught her finger with his mouth, biting down gently.
“So you’re going to open another shop?”
“We are,” he said firmly.
“If it’s a ‘we’ thing, then how come you haven’t told me about this before now?”
He brushed her hair back off her face. “It’s my job to make sure that you sleep easy. No stress. No fears. I didn’t want to tell you any of this until I had the details worked out.”
“Oh, but it’s all right for you to be stressed and worried?” she challenged.
“Yep,” he replied firmly.
“I want to help, Duke.”
“You do help. By being you.”
“By being an added burden you have to take care of.”
“Now those are spanking words,” he growled. “That’s ten.”
Uh-oh.
Why hadn’t she thought before she’d spoken?
“Now, Daddy, I think you’re being hasty,” she said quickly as he moved her so she was lying over his lap rather than sitting on it.
Then, her pants and panties were being pulled down past her bottom.
This wasn’t good.
Not good at all.
Smack!
