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I promise I only want to protect you. I won’t let you carry around guilt, and if a spanking helps you feel better, I’ll give you a spanking.” If anyone understood the devastation of guilt, it was Ben.
    “It did make me feel better, but I didn’t expect you to…” Her words trailed off and she blushed.
    “Spank your bare bottom?”
    “Yes. I didn’t expect that.”
    Ben hadn’t expected it either. He felt wicked for baring her to his gaze. At the time he’d told himself he only wanted to punish her properly, but the truth was much darker than that. He’d wanted to see her little ass turning red under his slaps. The fruits of his labor. He’d wanted to glimpse the sweetness between her thighs as she squirmed over his lap. He’d wanted to slip his fingers into her wet core, but he had at least shown some restraint in that department.
    This time.
    “Do you wish to be spanked over your panties or over your dress next time?”
    “Next time?”
    “If I have to spank you again, Hanna.”
    She gawked at him as the seconds ticked by. Outside, Lady barked and her footsteps sounded on the porch. The wind chimes clattered their familiar slow song. A gust of wind lifted the curtains and sent a few papers flying off his desk. Lost in the moment as their eyes remained locked, he waited for her answer, heart hammering in his chest.
    “If you have to spank me again, it should be as it was this time. I—I trust you to give me what I need.”
    Bare bottom. His cock hardened and strained against his jeans. Not exactly perfect timing when he’d planned to give her a hug. But he couldn’t send her away without offering her comfort. Hell, he needed it as much as she did after bringing her to tears.
    “Come here. Come to Daddy.” He gathered her close, tucking her head under his chin. He stroked her hair and wrapped an arm around her waist. She melted against him, circling her arms around his center and pressing her cheek to his chest.
    He never wanted to release her. If he could have stopped time, he would have done so without a second thought, even if it cost him his soul. He leaned into her, inhaling the scent of the shampoo they’d picked up at a drug store after leaving the pizza place yesterday. In fact, he’d gotten her all sorts of female toiletries he suspected she wasn’t accustomed to. It occurred to him that her legs had appeared smooth and bare when he lifted her dress. Apparently she’d used some of the stuff he’d bought her. More transformation. The shy Amish girl was disappearing, and a beautiful, innocent woman was taking her place.
    More barking from Lady broke into his reverie, and he pulled back far enough to place a kiss on Hanna’s forehead. She blushed again. It appeared he pushed her limits, but it also appeared she liked it.
    “No one has hugged me in years. Well, besides my little nieces and nephews. My mother was the last adult to hug me, and that was when I was five years old, right before she died.”
    “Amish people don’t hug each other?” Ben had had no idea. He was stunned.
    “We do. Sometimes. But it’s not allowed in public. My daat is rather rigid on the subject and doesn’t encourage it at home either.”
    Though Hanna had grown up a few miles away, she might as well have been from another country, as different as her upbringing had been.
    “Would you like to go fishing with me today?”
    Hanna’s face lit up. “Yes!”
    “Go put on a pair of jeans and meet me in the kitchen.”
    He gave her backside a playful swat and she rushed out of his office. He then counted backwards from one hundred until his erection softened and his pulse returned to normal. In the kitchen, he rooted around in the refrigerator and the cabinets for something to pack for a picnic lunch. He decided on ham sandwiches, fruit, and pasta salad.
    “What are you doing?”
    He turned to see Hanna standing beside the table, and her appearance caused his erection to return full force.
    One hundred.