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mind. "Oh, just go away! Go back to Timbuktu or wherever you came from."
    "Los Angeles, actually. But I'm here to stay for a week or so." His hard, well-manicured hand landed fast and sharply on her vulnerable bottom. "I'm here to take care of a certain stubborn woman."
    Shawna craned her head to look back at him, her eyes narrowing. "I don't need you--or anyone else--taking care of me. And I'm not stubborn." Okay, she was, but that wasn't the point.
    He snorted, holding her gaze and looking determined. "The only person I know more stubborn than you is me. And I promise I'm going to win this round." He raised his hand. "The first part of my taking care of you is going to be this spanking. Look away, unless it gives you a thrill to see me spank you."
    She snarled at him and turned her head. She most certainly did not get a thrill out of seeing him prepare to spank her! Her lower lips tingled and the moisture between her legs told her that his going Alpha dominant was a serious turn on. But she sure didn't like the idea of feeling the pain.
    His hand landed hard again and she gasped, "Isn't it bad enough that I'm horribly sick? Do you have to make it so I'll lie in bed on a sore bottom? That's sooooo wrong."
    He hesitated and then said, "Being forced to deal with a sore butt will make you think about the importance of cooperating better. Like when someone tells you to see a doctor. Like when someone tells you to stay in bed."
    Clearly he wasn't going to back down. She didn't have the energy to fight him about this...and she had to admit that she had been pretty uncooperative. She'd been cranky to the extreme every time Scott or Alan had tried to get her to at least call the doctor. They'd meant well, but she didn't like doctors. And she hated taking medicines. All those chemicals. They just weren't right for a body.
    "Are you ready?"
    "To be spanked? No. Never." She coughed and then huffed. "Just do it."
    As if she'd given him approval, he got down to the business of burning her bottom. He spanked her at least a couple of dozen times, each swat hard and biting. He didn't mess around when it came to spanking. It was delivered efficiently and quickly. Not an inch of her bottom was spared.
    She jerked with each swat and gritted her teeth. She was not going to cry out. She was not going to let him know how much it hurt.
    "Do you have any idea, really, how much trouble you've been for everyone?" He swatted the underside of her bottom. "All of your men are worried about you." Two more fierce swats to the same place.
    "I...I know," she said miserably. "I...I just...I'm sorry." She curled her fingers into the quilt and breathed through the fiery sting as he spanked her steadily.
    "I've been worried, too. And I haven't worried about very many people in my life."
    He gave her two final flaming smacks and sat down on the bed beside her with a heavy sigh of frustration. "I'm sorry I had to spank you. But you've gotten out of control. You are sick, yes, but you're being selfish too toward all those who care about you."
    She rolled against his heavy weight on the side of the mattress, wincing when her tender bottom brushed against his jeans. Tears more of shame than pain trickled out of the corner of her eyes. "I'd say thank you, but I wouldn't mean it. Not really."
    He turned to look down at her and she saw the heat in his eyes again. Desire. The man had just spanked her for misbehavior like a child and yet he clearly wanted her as a woman. They didn't say anything, both studying the other. She should move out of his reach but she stayed put. It was odd how she liked this take-charge-of-her side of him. No other man had ever dared put a hand to her butt. Nor would she have let him. So why this man? Why did she let this irritating stranger, who planned to upset her whole world, spank her bottom?
    She watched his gaze move over her, saw it settle on her still exposed bottom. His chest rose and fell in a shuddery breath. Now that the spanking