It was sharp, shocking, sending heat rushing through her in waves of both pain and something worse—pleasure she couldn’t fight. Her whole body jerked at the strike, her thighs trembling and opening without her even meaning to.

“Good girl,” he mocked softly, his hand spreading her thighs apart as though she had no right to close them. “That’s what happens when you lie.”

Before she could even catch her breath, his fingers pushed inside her, two at once, stretching her open. The intrusion was rough, unkind, and yet her body betrayed her again, clenching down tight around him as though it had been waiting for him.

She gasped, her back...