“Punish me?” she asked with false bravado. “What are you going to do? Ground me? Put me in a time-out? Spank me?”
“Yes.”
“W-what? Which one?”
He leaned in close. “All of them.”
All of them?
Had he really just said that?
And why did that intrigue her? The last thing she needed was a man who thought he could tell her what to do. Hernán seemed to believe he was the boss of her.
Something you’re not exactly challenging.
And she didn’t know why she was protesting so much about going home with him. This was exactly what she wanted. To get close to him. To find out something about her parents.
So you should be jumping on this opportunity with both feet.
Only . . . she didn’t expect this opportunity to come up like this. When she was feeling vulnerable and slightly broken.
Scared.
She
