“Mmm,” Fox said, sitting down at the table, obviously not hatched enough to speak. She set a plate down in front of him, stacked with pancakes and a few slices of bacon and handed him the butter dish.

Stella pulled the maple syrup out of the fridge and popped the cork on a bottle of champagne, pouring it into flutes with orange juice for mimosas. Kate served Dom and Stella and then sat down with her own plate of food, happy to have cooked for the three vampires who were quickly becoming her closest friends.

“This is delicious,” Dom said with a wink. “Thank you, amore.”

“Si, grazie, amore,” Stella said with her beautiful fangy smile.

Fox grinned at her. “They'll have you speaking Italian in no time. The trouble is, the Italian they speak is so antiquated that it would get you laughed out of the canals of Venice.”

Dom threw back his head and laughed. “That may be true, Fox.”

After breakfast Fox volunteered to clean up, and Dom tossed her over his shoulder and carried her back downstairs.

“Tell me something, piccolina,” he said, tossing her onto the bed.

“What?”

“Did you make those pancakes from scratch?”

“Yep. Why?”

“Well…I don't think we have any wheat flour alternatives in the house, do we?”

She gasped and clapped her hand over her mouth, her belly doing a flip. “I didn't even think of it! Dom, I wasn't testing you, I swear!”

“I believe you, bambina. But I still have to spank you.”

She gave him her best puppy dog eyes. “You don't have to spank me.”

He smirked. “Yes, I do. It will help you remember next time. Now, be a good girl and take off your clothes.”

She sat on the bed feeling defeated. “I don't want to be spanked, Dom!”

“That's the bitch of it, isn't it?” he said lightly. “Come on, if I have to strip you and put you in position, I am going to make your butt even sorrier than it's going to be.”

Her belly flipped again. She scrambled off the bed and pulled off the t-shirt and boxer briefs she had borrowed from Dom since she didn't have a change of clothes there. Dom patted his knee. She went reluctantly to him and he guided her gently over his lap.

“Did you read any of those blogs?” he asked.

Odd time to start a conversation. “Ye-es.” she said from her muffled position.

“I learned all kinds of ways to spank you better. You gotta love the internet, right?” With that, he started spanking, still conversing with her as if they were sitting down over a cup of coffee for a chat. The sting of his hand was quickly turning into that slow burning feeling. “So I'm supposed to give your butt a warm up with my hand or a wooden spoon first,” he said, spanking first one cheek and then the other, over and over again. She flinched and wriggled, but he held her firmly. It seemed like it went on forever, until her entire bottom felt like it was on fire. Then he stopped and rubbed her hot cheeks. “And then I rub for a few minutes.”

“Please, Dom. Please let me up?”

He pulled Kate to sitting on his knee, then swung one leg to the other side of his waist so she sat straddling him. He cupped her hot cheeks in his hands and leaned forward and nibbled at the stiff peak of her nipple.

“Tell me why I should let you up, piccolina?”

“Um. Because…I'm very, very sorry and I promise it won't happen again?”

He laughed. She was absolutely adorable. “I wonder if I can have sex with you and spank you at the same time?” he mused. Her little body shivered at that and he laughed again. “Come here, let's try.”

He stood up and tossed her on the bed, crawling up on it, himself. He knelt, sitting back on his heels and pulled Kate up so she sat down on his erection facing away from him, then he pushed her torso down until her head rested on the bed. She looked uncomfortable, so he grabbed a pillow and stuffed it under her chest. He manipulated her hips, enjoying the incredibly beautiful view of her reddened cheeks spread wide over his lap, the long slender arch of her back. He loved the sprawl of her blond waves on the bed where she lay, face turned to the side, mouth open, eyes squeezed shut. He brought his hand down and smacked her ass.

“Mmm,” she said, moving her hips up and down over his cock.

Smack. He brought it down again.