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    â€˜You won’t qualify in any of them if I write to the governing board accusing you of negligence,’ Michael Landers said evenly.
    â€˜But why would you...?’ Lisa gasped.
    â€˜Because I believe that adults should admit to their mistakes and accept the appropriate reprimand.’
    Lisa knew that the appropriate reprimand in his book was a stripped sore bottom. She licked her lips, but her mouth remained steadfastly dry.
    â€˜Can I have a drink?’ she asked unsteadily. Watched his tanned hands as they uncapped and poured from a bottle of carbonated mineral water. Realised her own hands were unsteady as she accepted the cut crystal glass.
    â€˜Don’t look like the condemned woman having a final request,’ he joked.
    â€˜I feel condemned,’ Lisa admitted hollowly, knowing that she’d never envisaged such a disquieting scene on this peaceful island. ‘You seemed so pleased when you offered me this Herbal Consultancy that I thought...’
    â€˜Thought that I was impressed with your enthusiasm and your knowledge?’ the doctor said when she tailed off. ‘Yes I was. I could see the books in your flat, the way you’d examined herbs uses as medicine, teas or foods to their roles as gardening aids and cosmetics. I liked the fact that you’d originally trained as a counsellor and were still working as one, understood something about the human mind.’
    â€˜Yet I made one mistake through overwork and ruined everything,’ the twenty-eight year old concluded sadly.
    â€˜No, you made one mistake that a good hard spanking will put right.’
    â€˜But even my parents didn’t spank me,’ Lisa protested, looking for another angle to protect her extremities.
    â€˜I’m glad to hear it,’ Michael Landers replied strongly. ‘Spanking children is a form of abuse.’
    His words threw her for a moment. Lisa toed the carpet as she tried to figure his philosophy. She agreed that the physical chastisement of youngsters was wrong - but she also thought that it was wrong to punish your subordinates the way he’d caned the luckless Jamilla. ‘I don’t understand,’ she said at last.
    â€˜Well, would you hit someone under eighteen who looks to you for protection and advice? It’s cowardly and cruel. It’s an act that’s born of stupidity and anger.’
    â€˜I agree with you,’ Lisa said. She took a deep breath. ‘But it’s also wrong to discipline me because I’m in a childlike position compared to you.’
    â€˜Nonsense - you’re a twenty-eight year old woman with a counselling diploma,’ her boss countered briskly.
    â€˜And that’s precisely why I’ll feel stupid being bent over your lap and having my...’ She found she couldn’t bring herself to add the words bottom spanked. ‘Feel stupid being corrected,’ she substituted falteringly.
    â€˜But you deserve to feel stupid because you acted stupidly,’ Michael Landers said, tapping his fingers against the couch.
    Damn it. He was winning this war. She was running out of verbal fire. Lisa sucked in her breath then played her trump card. ‘I know that you secretly get off on this. I saw you caning Jamilla yesterday.’
    Michael blinked twice, then he smiled lazily down at her. ‘It’s no secret that I enjoy roasting a womanly bottom. All of the staff at Vitality have been recruited because of their sexual submissiveness.’ He waved a hand in the direction of the window which led to the gardens and the stables. ‘I’ve got a veritable sub-culture here.’
    â€˜But I’m not like that,’ Lisa made herself look at him square on, pushed her shoulders back in what she hoped was a dominant gesture.
    â€˜Oh, but you are. I knew that you had a subservient side the moment I met you,’ Dr Landers said. He clapped his right hand softly down on his left palm three