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Horror struck Dree. “Oh,God,no. I’m not shipping off my rugrats to some rich-kid warehouse. Who would milk the sheep in the morning?”

Maxence nodded sagely. “Precisely.”

“Can I still be a nurse?” she asked, wrapping her arms more tightly around his neck.

“You can do anything you want,chérie,”he said, rubbing his hands over her calves alongside his thighs. “Wecan do anything we want. You could take a job in a New York hospital, or you can use your expertise to run a nurse’s outreach program through my charitable endeavors.”

Dree was having too much fun just dreaming up all this silliness with Maxence. “But what if I find someone who’s hotter and richer than you are and run off?”

Maxence chuckled and flipped her across his lap, butt up. “Then I’ll track you down and spank your little bottom until it’s pink.”

He popped a quick swat on her ass, a sharp crack that didn’t hurt so much as promised he knew precisely what he was doing.

Dree squealed because it seemed like the proper thing to do when a hot guy gave you a sexy spanking.

“As a matter of fact,” he said, inching her skirt up her legs, “I’m going to take your panties off and give you a bare-bottom spanking right now because you have been a naughty girl.”

“Have I?”

“I’m sure you were at some point.”

As cool air inched up her thighs, Dree remembered something. “Uh, surprise!”

His voice dropped to a bass rumble. “Oh, my naughty littlechérie,what have we here?”

His huge hand palmed her naked ass.

“Yeah, well,” she said, “I didn’t expect to come up here and find another woman in your bed.”

He massaged her ass cheek, gripping her flesh. “This is always a delightful surprise, but it’s very naughty of you to walk around the castle with no panties on, you naughty little secretary.”

“Uh, I’m justpretendingto be your secretary. I’m a medical professional.”

“Naughty, naughty little secretary,” he repeated, his voice even lower. “Do you know what royal princes do with naughty little secretaries?”

“Chase them around the desk? Because I’d just stand there and let you catch me.”

“It starts with a bare-bottom spanking.”

“I think you have a thing about that.”

Crack.

“Ouch!”she squeaked. His second spank on her other ass cheek stung more than the first. It was still within the realm of fun, though.

He massaged her butt cheek again, rubbing the twinge away. “You remember your safe words?”

Oh, he was going to get that kinky, huh?“Code blue for slow down. Code black means stop.”

“Good.” His fingers dipped lower, sliding along the bottom of her ass and around to the inside of her thigh.

Dree pushed herself up on her arms and twisted to look back at her own butt. “What are you doing back there?”

Maxence moved her legs apart, pushing one off the edge of his knee. “Whatever I want to.”

She braced her toes of that dangling leg on the floor so she wouldn’t topple off his lap. Her thighs were spread open, and considering that she was face-down, so was her ass. “Yeah, but are you going to—”

He ran his fingers up the inside of her thigh and lightly brushed her folds, then pressed inside to drag his fingertip.