CHAPTER 8 BRUCE Lilly looks down bashfully at the dog, and her blushing face makes me think of spanked butt cheeks—for some unknown reason. Damn it. The last thing I want is to turn into a spanking-obsessed billionaire cliché. “You’re right,” she says. “Setting down the box with the toys was an oversight.” She has a whole box of this stuff? I’ve never been this simultaneously infuriated and turned on, not even when I saw a naked woman in the crowd of Occupy Wall Street protestors years ago. Taking a calming breath, I thrust the toy into Lilly’s tiny hand. “Make sure this never happens again.” I would forbid her from m**********g completely, but I don’t need the HR rulebook to know that is not something that is under my control… unfortunately. “I’m sorry,” she mutters, her face turn

