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“Oh, I had some idea.”
“You did? Because I thought you must have missed that. Otherwise, why would you disobey me this morning?”
“I’m not disobeying you.” Why was her voice pitched so high?
She took another step back. His eyes narrowed, the only sign of emotion on his face.
“Are you scared of me, Faith?”
Her instinct was to tell him no. But he seemed to know when she was lying.
“I think I’d have to be crazy not to be, uh, wary of you.”
“Do you think I’d physically harm you?” he asked.
There was a tenseness to him that actually made her feel bad. She took a step forward. “No, I know you wouldn’t harm me. It’s just . . . you’ve got a really diabolical mind.”
“Thank you.”
It wasn’t really a compliment. But she wasn’t going to tell him that.
“So, you trust me. That pleases me.”
She wasn’t sure she’d go that far. She trusted him enough to know that he wouldn’t harm her.
“Did I not tell you to sleep in today, Faith?”
“Um, yes, but?—”
“And did I not tell you that a car would collect you at midday? After you slept in.”
“Well, yes, but?—”
“So, you know that I told you these things, and yet you’re here at eight in the morning. Did you sleep at all?”
Fudge knuckles.
He wasn’t going to let her talk at all, was he?
“I might have gotten an hour or two. But you can’t have had slept much either.”
“I don’t need more than a few hours a night.”
She didn’t know why, but she lapped up that bit of information from him. It was so rare for him to give her pieces of himself.
“But you need sleep. Which is why I told you to sleep in. Are you pushing me because you want to see whether I’ll punish you or not?”
This time, she took several steps away. “I don’t need to be punished.”
“Naughty girls get punished. Good girls get rewarded. It’s too bad you won’t get rewarded today. I think you would have enjoyed it.”
Drat.
Now she really wanted to know what the reward would have been. That wasn’t fair.
Maybe you should be more focused on the punishment.
“But I am owed a reward. Maybe they could cancel each other out.”
