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"What do you have in mind?" I asked.
Her eyes met mine for a second, then went distant, her gaze dropping to nothing in particular. Clearly thinking. I watched her hands open and close, open and fist, as she thought. Cops are supposed to be big, strong men, the sexy law enforcement beast, Will Smith, Matt Damon, Tom Selleck, whoever, someone big and muscled and strong.
Thing is - They're all human. They're all fallible and they're all mortal.
With Annie, she was a girl. She was strong, stronger than she looked, and she was definitely in shape, in better shape than when I found her thanks to all those desert morning runs. But she wasn't big. She was still a girl. And maybe the difference is made up by firepower and knowing what the fuck she's doing and by the element of surprise – Surprise! I'm a cop and you're under arrest! – even though as I understood it, she was under long enough that there was no telling because there was always the next job.
I wondered if she sometimes wanted to tell. Just to see the looks on their faces.
I frowned.
The looks on their faces when she brought them down.
She was still thinking. But suddenly I was angry. What she was thinking was unacceptable. About going through something like that again. Through the system the judge had in place. She'd start with the receptionist she'd taken a disliking to. Or to security. She'd hang around. She'd see if there wasn't a way back from having removed what might be the lynchpin.
Or might not. Conway had seemed to move without a lot of thought. Just, wow, oversexed co-ed, let's fuck and then –
"No," I said.
She started to say something and I loomed over her, took her chin in my hand and squeezed until her mouth opened without volition.
"Where did you go before you came back here?"
She tried to look surprised. She failed. Whatever she was thinking, whatever she had done, she had expected this.
"Breakfast."
I narrowed my eyes. "And who said you could do that?"
She yanked her head back from my grasp. "I didn't ask. I went and I did something that makes a difference and keeps some people safe only now I think I may need him back or –"
I grabbed her by the arm. "Today first. Then we'll deal with what you're thinking of for tomorrow."
"Cole! No!" Whatever she'd had in mind, there was real panic in her eyes now.
"Don't. Call. Me. That." I grabbed her arm and yanked her around to the desk, pushing her down so her hands went out to catch her, bracing her over it. I yanked the skirt up and hooked the panties down at the same time I was already starting to unbuckle my belt.
"No!" She sounded frantic.
"Submit. Submit or I'll have Barry come in and hold you."
She spat she snarled so hard. "You wouldn't fucking dare."
I didn't answer. That made today, Barry and the future. I doubled the belt in my fist and put my other hand in the middle of her back. For all her fighting, she hadn't freed herself yet.
"Count," I said.
"No!"
"Count!" And I snapped the leather across her ass so hard it popped and she screamed.
"One! Sir! Don't!"
"Shut up. Start over."
The next blow came down as hard and she only shouted, "One, sir!" and I didn't make her thank me because I was going too fast.
And I was going too hard.
