Chapter 257

Then she'd been so cute, hiding in the bushes with the obvious assumption that he couldn't figure out where she was - despite leaving a trail any half-decent tracker would immediately notice - his anger had dimmed even more.

She was still going to get a punishment though.

Half-play, because that was what she obviously wanted, and half-punishment, because there were safer ways to play with him that wouldn't cause him so much panic. Sassiness, even brattiness could be fun. Making him actually seize up, not so much.

"Then next time, don't try to give me a heart attack when you want to play, naughty girl," he said in a growling voice, enjoying the shiver that went through her body when he called her naughty.

Laid out in front of him, with her legs spread, it was easy to see how aroused she was - even if the evidence hadn't been rubbed all over the front of his pants. Her nipples were hard pink points, jutting up from the small s