Stony Creek Hero [Stony Creek 2] (Siren Publishing Classic) by Taylor Berke Page B

in the right direction, Miss Thing. I am just loving that sexy top you have got on today! Let me guess. It is all part of your fishing expedition, no?” Beth mused before taking a bit of the delicious juicy slider that Mimi had just placed in front of her.
    “She is not lying. You look amazing in it. Are you, um, trying to, perhaps, hook Ben with a bit more femininity? Do you think that a change of clothes is all you need?” Maddy smiled sweetly.
    Lizzie leaned her head onto her hand while she thought for a moment. “You know, girls, for a long time, my life was about taking care of my father. It was about responsibilities and trying to be what other people told me I was. I decided last night that I am going to attempt to be who I think I am from now on.”
    Looking uncustomarily out of sorts, Billie looked her in the eye and asked, “So, who are you?”
    “I am a woman who has not found love yet. I am a woman who has done what other people told me to do. I dressed as they suggested I dress and participated in activities that I was told were appropriate. That is not going to be me anymore, girls. Lizzie Carmichael is going to dress like the sex goddess that she hopes she can be. She is going to do what makes her feel good about herself. She is going to take the time to find out what it is that really makes her happy and going to do her damnedest to get that lug of a Powell to see me as more than a flavor.”
    “Well, I am sure you won’t mind if he gives you a lick! Be careful, young lady, big fish have big equipment!” a voice from the next table drifted over. It startled all the younger women who suddenly turned to see and hear all the older women burst into laughter and smile wickedly.
    “Julia Morgan, you mind your business. I don’t want you giving poor Mabel any more heart palpitations when I don’t have a defibrillator in here!” Billie barked out.
    The older women looked down and grumbled to each other about Billie turning into a grouch in the last week.
    “Well, they have got at least one thing right,” Beth chimed in.
    Maddy looked up and asked, “What’s that?”
    “Well, Ben certainly has a craving to taste our little Lizzie here but also loves to give some licks, in the form of a spanking!” Beth replied deviously.
    Lizzie blushed as Maddy looked at her wide-eyed in shock. “Really, Lizzie? Is that true?”
    “Um, I guess that my answer would have to be a yes,” Lizzie said with a grin. Truth was, she hadn’t minded Ben taking her in hand, nope, not at all. She felt herself becoming aroused just at the memory of being forced over his lap as he not-so-gently smacked her globes. He had her squirming from mixing the slaps with massaging caresses as he administered his protection , as he had put it those months ago. Yum, she hoped that she could get him to be protective again and soon!
    Maddy still looked shocked and just said, “Wow! Billie, is there something you need to share also?”
    “Ugh really, no! It’s not like it’s in the Powell family code or something,” Billie mumbled.
    Again a more mature female voice chimed in. “Don’t get all high and mighty over there, Miss Doctoressa. You have come into work for the last two months like you were riding in the saddle for twenty-four hours at a clip! Don’t throw stones at other people’s windows, missy!” Julia whispered for the younger table to all hear. Mabel and Millie were nodding their heads with the naughty knowledge of why Dr. Billie was walking funny.
    “You are so fired. Millie, you are hired,” Billie told Julia with a smirk.
    “Why not me?” Mabel asked as though insulted.
    “Because you keep going into fibrillation and then I will have no one to assist me. Oh wait, Julia can’t even stand the sight of blood so I have no assistance now anyway. Okay, you are hired, too!” Billie stated.
    “You are really grouchy today, Doctor. Eat something,” Julia said before she turned around.
    Maddy confessed to Lizzie that