Daddy Devious Novel – “Little girls do not run on the stairs.” He turns me to the side, one hand gripping my upper arm, while the other swats my hip with fast, sharp spanks. “Ow, ow, ow!” Yelping at the shocking pain, I dance in place as he continues to spank me. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry!” I don’t know what I’m apologizing for, exactly, but it seems like the appropriate response and I’m willing to do or say anything to end this humiliating punishment.
He ends the spanking with two extra hard swats before turning me back to face him. The lines of his face appear to be etched in stone, and there’s a cold fury radiating from him that makes me want to shrink away. “Where are you supposed to be right now, Ms. Finch?” Victoria I need to quit my job. Like, yesterday. There’s no way I can take another two weeks of this.
Of constantly jumping at the sound of my name, of tensing up every time those elevator doors open, expecting to see uniformed guards marching toward me. Or worse, Maxwell Stone himself. All morning he’s been on my mind. That little ha-smile, like he knew something I didn’t. The fact that he knows my name. My face. What else does he know about me? I will be seeing you around. Those words have lived in my head for four solid hours. Replaying over and over until I want to scream.
Or march myself right up to his office and demand to know what he’s playing at. But I know I won’t do that. Even if I hadn’t embezzled all that money, I would never have the nerve to demand anything from a man like Maxwell Stone. I do have some sense of self-preservation, after all. By the time my lunch hour rolls around, I’m wishing I hadn’t touched even a single penny of that money. It isn’t, I’ve decided, worth the ulcer all this stress is certainly giving me.
The second I get home, I’m going to find the smallest, most remote little town in America and book myself a flight. Or maybe I’ll just buy a cheap used car. Would that be harder to track? Possibly, if I took out some cash and paid for some cheap roadside motel rooms along the way instead of using my debit card.