She bristled. "No...it's not nothing. I know I shouldn't have done it, and that I should have told you...I'm not arguing that...but you never made it clear to me how important it was to you. If I had better understood your desires or your reasoning... I would have known. But you're always so damned vague. How was I to know where I stand?"
"That may be. But this is not something I ever expected from you. Not something I thought to plan for."
She sighed and bit the inside of her cheek, nodding in agreement and furrowing her brow. "I must admit...I haven't been myself these last weeks...but we can talk of that later...I will accept whatever you deem appropriate as my punishment."
He snorted derisively. "Punishment?"
She squelched the heat of embarrassment clawing up her throat. "I don't m
