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about
that.”
    Before Laken could ask what the hell he meant by that, he
turned on his heel and dragged her across the room.
       “What
are you...?”
    The words came out in a rush of breath as he sat down in the
chair behind the desk and yanked her over his knee. The position was so
humiliating that Laken couldn’t do anything but lay there, her bottom in the
air. It didn’t help that she had to put her hands on the floor just to keep her
balance. Or that he put a strong hand on her back to hold her in place when she
finally tried to push herself upright.
    She craned her neck to glare at him over her shoulder. “Let
me up right now!”
    “Not until we get a few things straight,” he ground out.
“First, I’m the captain of this ship, and you’ll treat me as such. Second, as a
stowaway, you can and will be punished as I see fit. And third, if you continue
to act like a spoiled brat, this spanking will only be the first of many.”
    Her eyes went wide. Spanking. He was joking, right? She’d
never been spanked in her life and she wasn’t about to get one now. She opened
her mouth to tell him to go to hell when his hand came down hard on her
ass.   She gasped as heat spread
across her bottom.
    “Owwww!”
       She
struggled to push herself upright, but it did no good. Thinking it might help
if she squirmed instead, she wiggled around, but all that did was make her
short skirt to ride up even higher so that the next smack landed on her
partially exposed cheek. The sting made her go rigid across his lap.
       “Let me
up right now, you...”
    Another smack interrupted her. It was followed by another
and another until she couldn’t think about anything but each stinging spank and
the heat that came with it. The embarrassment of knowing he was getting a look
at her panty-clad ass was almost as bad as the spanking itself.
    Somewhere in the back of her mind, she knew she should be
concerned that the crew would hear her protests and be able to figure out
exactly what was going on, but the spanks stung so fiercely that she didn’t
care. She just wanted it to be over with.
    Then, as quickly as it had begun, and much to her relief, it
was over and Laken was back on her feet, Captain Karsten towering over her.
Face flushed, she glared up at him. She was torn between slapping that smug
look off his handsome face and rubbing her freshly spanked ass, but decided
giving into the urge to slap him might earn her another trip over his knee, so
she reached back to cup her sore bottom instead. She could feel the heat coming
from her poor cheek even through the material of the skirt.
    “How dare you spank me like I’m a child!”
    His dark eyes were hard as flint as he glowered down at her.
“Then stop acting like one. I won’t put up with it on my ship, Ms. Andara.
You’ll behave yourself while you’re on board, or I’ll do it again.”
    Laken opened her mouth to tell him there was no way in hell
she was going to let him spank her again when the door abruptly slid open.
Startled, she turned to see a pretty, dark-haired woman standing in the
doorway. She gave Laken a curious look, her brow furrowing slightly. Suddenly
realizing that she was still cupping her bottom, Laken colored and quickly took
her hands away. Glancing at the captain, Laken found his gaze on her.
    She wasn’t surprised when he didn’t bother with polite
introductions. “Devorah will show you to your quarters.”
    Laken didn’t reply. Giving him a scathing look, she turned to
follow the woman.
    “Wait a minute,” Karsten said.
    Almost against her will, Laken turned at the command in his
voice to see him holding out her purse.
    “Don’t forget this,” he said. “And don’t forget to behave
yourself, either. I expect you to keep to your quarters and the common areas of
the ship. Which means I don’t want to catch you wandering around anywhere
else.”
    Laken wished could have come up with something sharp and
cutting to say, but nothing came to