Trace & Tori [The ShadowDance Club 4] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Avery Gale Page A

me.”
    Tori felt her breathing accelerate in anticipation and knew her pussy was already weeping. She tried to block out the fact that this handsome man was going to be looking at her most private parts. She half chuckled at her own foolishness.
    “Want to share what you find so funny, princess?” Tori thought she heard a note of irritation in his voice, and she certainly didn’t want to hurt his feelings.
    She turned to face him and said, “I’m sorry, I wasn’t laughing at you. I was thinking about how ridiculous it is to feel embarrassed about you looking at my, well, um…my privates when you have already made me come twice. And I’m pretty sure you have seen women naked before, so it won’t really be any big deal for you.”
    Trace moved so fast she didn’t even realize he had until she found herself laid over his lap. What the heck happened and when did he sit on this chair? Holy shit but he moves fast.
    Trace gave two sharp swats to both ass cheeks and watched as they turned pink immediately. “Stop making it seem as if you are not anything special. I’ve had enough of that, and I have warned you, but you don’t seem to be figuring it out, so I’ll try another approach.” The next swats were right on top of the crease between her ass and upper thighs, Trace knew she would feel those with every step she took for the rest of the evening, and that was exactly the reminder he was after. Trace knew a lot of Doms who thought the harder the spanking the more it taught a lesson, but he had never found that to be true. He liked to use well-placed stinging swats that would leave a tenderness long after the spanking was done as a reminder of the sub’s error.
    “Now, I’m going to give you four more spanks, and I want you to count them after each one, do you understand, Tori? I want to make it perfectly clear that you are getting this punishment because you continue to diminish your value to me, and I have simply listened to all I intend to of that bullshit.”
    Tori’s voice was shaky and he could tell she was crying. He knew she wasn’t in great pain, but her reaction was more likely because she felt bad for letting him down. She was clearly a person who liked to please others, and his displeasure with her would be what was really causing her tears. She carefully counted off the last four swats, and when they were over, he pulled her up and onto his lap so he could wipe her tears. “Sweetness, you are an amazing woman, and I want you to understand how very special you are. I have helped train many subs, and I was married to a woman who tried to be a sub for many years before we both gave up on the idea. But you? Oh, princess, you are something so very precious, and I can’t stand it when you don’t recognize the fact that I am enchanted by you.”
    Tori looked up into his eyes and couldn’t detect any hint of sarcasm or teasing. Could he really see something in her that no other man had seen? The two guys she’d dated in college had never cared anything about making sure she felt valued, and her stalker in Houston had just wanted to own her. Just the thought of Officer Gary George still had the power to make her almost physically ill. She knew Trace had only given her the spanking to make her realize how many times she had devalued herself and for some odd reason that had endeared him to her even more. The only thing troubling about the spanking was how hot it had made her, and she really didn’t understand how that could be.
    She remembered reading somewhere about how closely pleasure and pain were interpreted by the brain. At the time she had discounted that figuring the words had obviously been written by a masochist. But now she was going to have to re-think that observation. And for just a minute she wondered what other misconceptions she might be harboring about her own sexuality.
    Using his thumbs to remove her tears, he watched her sweet face as she tried to process all the feelings she was