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“I won’t be talked out of this, baby. He has this coming. Right now, I have someone working on some information to send to his boss that’s going to result in him losing his job. He’s close to losing his house. I have a private investigator looking into anything else I might need. And what I don’t find, I will create. No one touches what belongs to me and lives. Or lives a nice life anyway.”
“This will affect Cammie.”
“In some ways, yes. However, I’ll keep her out of it. Not because I like her or she’s blameless, but because you care about her.”
“I know that she . . . that she hasn’t acted like a very good friend. But once we were and I couldn’t live with myself if we hurt her.”
“It wouldn’t be ‘we’ it would be me. But I won’t do anything to her as long as she doesn’t hurt you anymore.”
“Thank you.” She kissed him lightly. She knew it wasn’t just because of her that he was leaving Cammie alone.
Reuben had a soft spot for women and children who were in distress. Cammie had been abused. Reuben might be angry with her, but he still wouldn’t harm her.
“You know . . . I think I should show you just how grateful I am,” she told him.
“Should you? And how will you do that?”
She didn’t know where this daring side of her came from. She’d never been like this before.
But maybe it had always been there. She just hadn’t known how to access it.
She climbed off him and moved to the door, locking it.
She wasn’t quite that daring yet.
Then she walked back to him as he shifted around, placing his feet sitting on the floor.
“Baby, you don’t need to do anything to thank me,” he told her firmly.
“I know. I want to. Is that all right?” She bit her lip, wondering if he didn’t want that.
Perhaps he was busy.
“The day I ever say no to you touching me is the day I fucking die.”
She rolled her eyes even though she was ridiculously happy. “Dramatic, but okay.”
He narrowed his eyes at her. “If you want me to recall that spanking I owe you . . .”
“Daddy! I don’t know what you are talking about.”
“I’m talking about the fact that you were living in substandard conditions with a man who was growing increasingly angry at you.”
“Oh. That.”
Fudge.
“Yes. That. I was going to hold off on spanking you because you went through a lot last night. But I’d be happy to rethink that.”
She shook her head and kneeled in front of him. She winced as pain radiated up her legs.
Ouchie.
Reaching out, he cupped her chin. “Be careful. I won’t be happy if you hurt yourself.”
“But it’s okay if you hurt me?”
“Entirely different thing.” Reuben ran his thumb along her cheek, making her breath catch. Then he slid his thumb into her mouth, and she moaned.
