Unconditional
She’s got a lovely ass.”
    “But I have cellulite,” Ashley protested.
    Yes, she would need some modifications to her thought process. He brought his hand down on her gorgeous ass in a hard smack.
    Her whole body shook and the sweetest squeal came out of her mouth. “That hurt!”
    Indignation. He chuckled. “Yes, that’s why they call it punishment. And you just added ten extra strokes with the cellulite comment.” He gave her several more in rapid succession, not allowing her to breathe in between.
    Her fingers had a death grip on his ankle. “I was just saying what the problem with my backside is.”
    “You are digging yourself a bigger hole, sub.” The lieutenant whistled as he shook his head.
    “I’m trying to make you understand that there isn’t a problem at all.” Three more. She’d taken eight hard whacks, every muscle clenching with tension. She wasn’t relaxing the way a longtime sub would.
    He heard her sniffle. “I don’t think I like this part.”
    She was crying openly, her nails now digging into his leg. Fuck. Maybe she had really delicate skin.
    “Please, I don’t think I can take another one.”
    She was going to safe word on him. He had to let her do it. “Use your safe word then and we’ll be done.”
    “Give it a minute,” another voice said. Karina was wrapped in a short black robe, having finished her scene. She looked at him. “Can I help, Sir? She’s very new and sometimes getting through the first discipline session is hard.”
    “Karina, you know better than to get between a Dom and his sub,” Derek said.
    “She won’t be his sub for long if she walks away now.” Karina sent the cop a look that could have frozen the balls off a man in the dead of summer.
    Apparently, he was far more open to help than Derek Brighton. “Please, Karina. If you can help, I would appreciate it.”
    She winked and got to her knees on the floor. “First of all, give me your hands, sweetie. You can hold on to me. What did you do?”
    Ashley laughed a little. “I said I was fat.”
    “Oh, now you’re in for it. I told you that would happen. How many?” Karina asked.
    “She’s up to thirty,” Keith explained. “She’s taken eight.”
    “Okay, well, you do what you do, Master Keith.” Karina nodded his way.
    Whack.
    Ashley tensed.
    Karina’s voice was soothing and deep as she spoke to Ashley. “Relax, honey. I want you to really think about what’s happening to you. Your brain is in charge, but it’s your body’s turn. What does it feel like?”
    “It hurts,” Ashley shot back.
    Karina nodded again and Keith gave her another smack. He could see what she was doing and the sub was one smart lady. He held his hand against Ashley’s skin this time, allowing her to process the sensation.
    “Stop thinking and feel,” Karina encouraged. “Yes, there’s pain, but what’s underneath it?”
    He closed his eyes because he just fucking knew he’d screwed up. He’d pushed her too hard.
    “Heat.” The word came out on a breathy moan. “My skin feels hot.”
    He gave her another, this time right where her ass cheeks flowed into her thighs.
    Ashley whimpered, but she didn’t tense the way she had before. “It’s like my nerves are firing off.”
    “But you don’t know what they’re trying to tell you,” Karina added. “Yes, you’re getting there, sweetie.”
    Again. He smacked her sweet flesh and Karina talked her through it. He could tell Ashley was crying, but that was all right because her spine had softened, her body relaxing. She stiffened with the next few smacks and then she simply gave over.
    “Can you handle another ten?” Keith asked.
    “She’s nodding,” Karina said. “She’s good, hon.”
    His cock was back to stiff because she was finally responding properly. The discipline was meant to correct a behavior, but there was an underlying sensuality that should speak to her. She should get wet from what was being done.
    He breathed deeply and sure enough,

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