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to get all emotional,” Graham said, openly frustrated.
    “You’re demoting me, and I’m not supposed to get emotional?” she countered, her eyes glassy.
    “Are you surprised about getting demoted?” he was aghast. “Let me assure you, if you were a man, there’d be worst things. You endangered your life and Thorton’s life, you ruined expensive equipment, and you single-handedly put us behind schedule. It’s not like your record was a particularly rosy picture before now. Your record is ripe with insubordination from nearly every professional dealing you’ve had. You’ve had nearly every officer on the ship write you up.
    “To be perfectly frank, Eleanor, I suggested to Thorton that he discard you from his service, but luckily for you Thorton only believes a demotion is in order. Supposedly as horrible as you’ve been to him, he still wants to work with you.”
    “So I got disciplined in public and I got demoted?” she clarified, her face heating red.
    “Your surprise about that is disturbing to me,” he told her firmly. “I don’t care if you can’t sit down for the rest of your life, Eleanor. I’m not going to lose you because of your damn pride, which is nearly what happened yesterday.”
    “If you would've just let me have time to properly conduct my experiment, it would have gone perfectly! I admit that I probably shouldn’t have done the modification on Engine Number Two when we were running on full-power, but I still have faith that it will work if you give me a little more time…”
    Graham looked incredulous, like he didn’t believe what he was hearing. In fact, he shook his head a little bit as if he was imagining the whole thing. “I can’t believe you’re still arguing about this! Don’t you learn?”
    “Yes, I do. Which is why next time, I’ll be doing it right,” she assured, planting her feet firmly and putting her hands on her hips.
    He wished she was like this only because she was tired from working until morning, but he had a feeling that the doe-eyed little pixie was actually serious. Without another word or thought, he reached out and grabbed her arm and pulled her over to the sofa.
    “Stop being a tyrant!” she demanded, folding her hands over her bottom even before he pulled her over his lap. “I’m talking about progress, Graham!” she cried, kicking her legs wildly in protest until he forced them down by pinning her legs skillfully under one of his own. “I’ve already been spanked, damn it!”
    “Then act like it,” he told her, flipping her skirt back up and her leggings and panties clear down to her knee-high boots. “You need to learn not to antagonize me.” He pinned her hands to her back as they were beginning her constant pursuit in trying to protect herself that way, and quickly noticed the red welting all across her skin.
    He wanted to huff an angry sigh—how in the galaxy does a woman take a spanking like that and have vinegar still left in her spirit to earn herself another? He didn’t want to have to spank her again! Thorton certainly did a number on her already… Not that he was upset with him for doing so. It was encouraging to know Thorton was finally serious about being an officer.
    She tried to seek out the floor with her toes. She never could—she was too damn small. “Graham, c’mon!” she groaned pleadingly.
    Graham suddenly started spanking her already-quite-scalded flesh with his firm, paddle-like hand, which she had told him several times was as hard as wood.
    “Stop! Please, stop! I get the point!” she promised. She already felt a tear roll down her face—she was already emotional, she was already defeated.
    “I don’t even care if you get the point or not,” he informed her in a growl. “It’s not about you understanding, it’s about you obeying. You need to learn to obey. You need to control your tongue. You need to control your actions. You need to control your temper.” He spanked quickly and thoroughly even