The Woman Next Door Read Online Free PDF Page B

her.
    “I do not want to take a nap!” she pouted, even as she backed up a couple of steps when he entered the room and shut the door behind him. “You wouldn’t dare!” she gasped as he reached for her.
    “I warned you what would happen, didn’t I?”
    “I didn’t think you would really do it, Craig! Don’t you dare!” She tugged on her arm, trying to free herself, but he had a tight hold on her and she was unable to escape his grip. “I’ll go to bed if you really want me to!” she said, capitulating and sacrificing her pride.
    “Oh, you’ll go to bed, all right. But, you’ll do so with a stinging butt.” He sat on the side of the bed and tugged her down across his lap, and then his hand smacked the seat of her jeans, leaving a stinging handprint. “I think you’ve needed a spanking for a long time, haven’t you, little girl?”
    “No! I am not a little girl, and I don’t want a spanking!” she insisted, but Craig ignored her and continued to spank her, the swats stinging like crazy. “Ouch! Ow! You’ve made… Ouch! Your point! Stop now! Ow!”
    Craig spanked her again and again for good measure. “You do not tell me when to stop a spanking, Miss Elizabeth. I’ll stop when I am ready, and when I feel you are remorseful! You aren’t even close to being sorry!”
    “Yes, I am!” she screeched when he spanked her again as she was trying to talk. “I am!”
    “You are not. You’re too busy having a tantrum.”
    “Please stop! I’m sorry! It hurts! Please, Craig! I am truly sorry!”
    Craig was sure she’d had enough. He had no doubt she was stinging right now, and that was what he intended. He didn’t want to be harsh with Lizzy when she was recovering from a concussion. She also needed to rest, and while he didn’t consider things of that sort to be important on a daily basis, Elizabeth needed extra care and extra rest right now.
    Elizabeth felt dizzy when he lifted her and then put her in bed. Her butt was burning and she was so embarrassed she didn’t know what to do with herself.
    “Do you think you can go to sleep now?”
    She nodded, wanting to be left alone.
    “Good,” he whispered, and then he bent down and kissed her on the cheek.
    Elizabeth couldn’t believe the man. One minute he was spanking her so hard that her poor butt was on fire, and in the next minute, he was kissing her tenderly! One little kiss hardly made up for the stinging bottom she had. Elizabeth fumed, but she also fell asleep within five minutes.
    Craig peeked in on her and smiled when he realized she was asleep. While she was resting he would try to get some work done. Forensics sent over a report on his fax machine and he didn’t recognize any of the names the partial matched. Still, he concentrated on investigating the men and searching for anything that could lead to the man who attacked Elizabeth. Craig did not believe this was some random attack. He believed that Elizabeth saw something she didn’t realize she was seeing at the time. What he needed to do was get a court order so that he could compare his list to the list of patients seen in the ER the last few weeks.
    Craig went into his kitchen and prepped some veggies for a stir-fry for their lunch. He took out some chicken tenders and then cut them into thin strips. He wouldn’t start them until his houseguest woke from her nap. He washed his hands, and then he went to check on Elizabeth. To his shock, her room was empty!
    * * *
    Elizabeth didn’t mean to get lost when she woke and decided to go for a walk. She needed some time to compose herself and think about her feelings. Craig Johnson spanked her and there was nothing that could change that fact! Did he care about her? She didn’t know. She didn’t have the best instincts when it came to men. The Domestic Discipline sites she belonged to claimed that a spanking was an act of love. If that was the case, he must love her a lot because he certainly spanked her thoroughly… until she said