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“It’s okay,” she croaked, her throat tight. “I deserved it sometimes. But sometimes, I think it was just easier for her to ignore me like that. I was a weird kid. I mean, I am still weird. Obviously.” She tried to laugh, but it came out strained.
“Watch it,” he growled, and she tugged her head away to look up at him. “Don’t call yourself names.”
“But it’s true. I’m a weirdo.”
“Abbie,” he said in that low, warning voice of his. “That’s your last chance. Then I’ll get the paddle.”
“You have a paddle?” she gasped.
“Not yet, but I can use a wooden spoon until I get one.”
“A wooden—no! You can’t use that!”
“Watch me.”
She gulped. Yep, he was totally serious.
He took another deep breath. “No more corner time,” he said, and relief flooded her. She hadn’t even realized she was so anxious about it until he said that.
“Promise?”
“I swear, baby girl. What else would she do? I don’t want to do something to trigger you again.”
“Nothing.” She shrugged. “She just would say I was bad, that I was the worst child she’d ever seen, and lock me in my room.”
“Fuck.” He scrubbed his hand over his mouth. “Fuck. I’m sorry.”
“You didn’t know,” she murmured, resting her hand on his shoulder. “I should’ve told you. But I didn’t know it would upset me like that.”
“No, I shouldn't have left you during your first punishment. That was my fault. I should’ve been here to check on you, to make sure you were okay.”
God, her heart ached for him. Reaching up, she pressed a soft kiss to his cheek.
“Thanks for taking care of me, Daddy,” she whispered, and a fierce expression fell over his face.
“Always,” he vowed. “I will always take care of you, Abbie. I’m sorry I fucked up this time, but it will never happen again. I promise you that.”
Somehow, she believed him.
nineteen
“How are you feeling?” Jett asked, gently stroking her cheek, some of that fierceness he’d just had dissipating again. “You okay?”
“I’m fine,” she said, nodding. She actually felt better getting some of that off her chest. She’d never talked about it to anyone before, not even Chris. He saw what happened, but he was so much older than her, he wasn’t around for a lot of it.
She was only a little kid when he left. He’d come home sometimes, but after he was overseas in the military, that stopped happening. It wasn’t until he’d come back that he spent more time with her. By that point, she was used to being locked up in her room, and he assumed it was her wanting to separate herself from the family, not her mother still doing it.
“I’m okay,” she said again.
Jett eyed her for a long moment, like he thought she was lying. But she wasn’t. She was fine. She was more than fine.
Well, she was fine other than the guilt for disobeying him eating away at her.
Sighing, she rested her head on his shoulder. “I’m sorry I left the corner,” she muttered.
“I know you are, baby,” he said softly. “Do you want your spanking now or later?”
She still couldn’t believe he was actually going to spank her. Seemed a bit overdramatic, if you asked her.
