Page 16 of Accidentally Matched

“I will,” I say as Marcia packs up and leaves for the day.

A few minutes later, the three ranch hands step out of the boardroom. Finally.

I greet them cheerily. They mumble something, seem to turn red, and scurry out.

I don’t waste any time. Swinging my handbag over my shoulder, I step into the office. Colter has risen from his seat and flips through files in a filing cabinet.

“I’m a busy man, Tierney, and it’s the damn middle of the day,” he says, walking out of the office to Marcia’s desk, where he opens the laptop and starts clicking the keyboard.

“And I’m a busy woman. Since all you gave me was fifty hours to learn everything I want to know and you won’t accept my group chat invitation so we could coordinate things, plus I have a party to go to tonight. Why don’t you believe in true love, Colter?” I surprise myself by asking that question, which just came out of nowhere.

“Can’t believe in something that doesn’t exist.”

“But it does.”

“Your dog tell you that?”

“Look, I know you think what I do is a joke. I know you think I’m a joke. Just a silly little airhead in pink doing frivolous things, so I must be brainless, right? Just a silly, ditzy—”

Colter moves so fast, he pins me to the wall in a heartbeat, knocking my breath from my lungs. His huge, intimidating body presses into mine. I can physically feel the throb of my pulse pounding under my skin.

He opens his mouth to speak, then closes it again. I frown.

“What?” I ask.

“Don’t,” he says, releasing me. Since my limbs are too quivery to move, I stay where I am.

“Don’t what?”

He gives me a theatrical sigh. “What do you want, Tierney?”

“I want you to spank me. Please.” I awkwardly haul out the flogger from my bag and drop it onto the desk beside us.

“I’d like to find out if it’s something I’ll enjoy. I read some women get highly aroused and can even orgasm from it.”

“You want me to spank you?”

“I do,”

“Hard?” he asks softly, backing into me further.

“Yes.”

Wait, I should have said only as hard as need be. No, just a tap. I’m a big baby and will cry if it hurts too much.

“Then will you go away?”

“Well, after I get Nolan to show me what nipple clamps can do to my nipples. And then Jace, to show me if I can squirt with that curved dildo thing. Then I’ll go away.”

“Fuck,” he breathes, and my skin bursts into flames. Thank god, there is no way I’ll ever develop feelings for any of the Lone River guys, or I’d be in big, big trouble.

I can’t catch my breath as his hands slip under my dress and travel all the way up to my thighs.

“Oh,” I whisper when he hooks his calloused fingers into the thin band of my panties and pulls them off me. They must be heavy with my wetness.

He scoops me up over his shoulder, grabs the flogger, then takes a seat on the only sofa in the office. He flips me around so I’m lying over his lap, my ass in the air.

A cool breeze drifts over my exposed bare bottom as he lifts the ample material of my dress and tucks it into the small of my back.

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