by Helen Karol
“Hey, what’s your problem?” I throw at him, steadying myself as the seat rocks a little. It's the only protest I can manage in my pleasantly drunken, jealous, and pathetically turned–on by his caveman tactics state.
“The water’s high tonight, you’re too drunk to swim and none of the rest of us are in any better of a state to fish you out. Stay there and don’t move any closer to the dock. And don’t let me see you anywhere near the water when you get home, either.”
There's a shocked silence from Lisa and Luke and I want to hide under the chair. Rick seems oblivious to the atmosphere he's created and just stares down at me with a dark look. Despite my embarrassment, I feel stupidly reassured by his overbearing concern.
Luke coughs and Lisa finds her voice.
“Wow, bad cop. Hot!”
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Chance straightened, a determined green blaze in his eyes, steel in his tone. “You sure know how to live up to those flame-colored tresses of yours, missy. That’s quite an attitude you have on you. One that’s earned you a sore spanking that’s gonna leave that beautiful backside of yours a lot redder than your hair.”
Despite all her pushing, the surreal nature of what was happening astonished Tessa when he reached out and, with one swift motion, turned her over his knee. Stunned, she didn’t fight him. Instead, she steadied herself with one hand on his lower thigh. Keeping her in place with his arm cinched in a firm hold around her waist, he angled her body so she was supported by the couch. Telling herself dignified disdain was her best route, she buried her burning face in its soft, worn leather. Now that he was actually following through with his threat, she’d no intention of gracing his caveman tactics with a reaction.
Until the first smack landed.
Even through her jeans it burned atrociously. Chance was clearly intent on getting his message across. He systematically brought his large hand down hard, covering the middle of each cheek with a fiery smack. Rhythmically alternating backwards and forwards between both buttocks, he laid on the tanning to her jeans he’d promised. A tanning that had her twisting and turning on his knees trying to avoid it. Not that it helped much. Chance just followed her movements, spanking relentlessly, keeping up the tempo and force of his blows with each of her frantic, alternating shifts across his muscled thighs.
She was soon yelping and throwing her hand back in a dual attempt to protect her bottom and stop his blows. He didn’t even break stride, simply blocking her movements with one hand while the other raised such a fire in her butt it was all she could do not to blubber like a little girl. All her bravado left her and she was mortified to hear her own voice howling and pleading for him to stop. “Oww! Ouch! Oh, it hurts! How can a spanking hurt so much? Stop, Chance, stop!”
Ignoring her pleas, he changed his pattern, spanking her thoroughly across her whole bottom randomly again and again. Lifting one thigh, he upended her even more so he could pay plenty of attention to her tender sit spots at the underside of her buttocks. Finally his hand stilled. He rubbed the base of her back and then righted her to sit on his knees. She tried to scramble off, but he held her fast. “No, you don’t, missy. We’re not done yet.” Taking her chin in his hands, he asked her firmly, “You want me to stop? For your spanking to be over? Is that it, Therese Marie?”
Rubbing her abused cheeks, she glared at him mutinously. “How can you do this to me? You hardly know me. You have no right.” Now she was no longer in the humiliating position across his knee and his hard hand was no longer burning her butt, her bravado foolishly returned.
“Wrong answer, babe.” To her horror, he turned her back face down over his knees in the opposite direction, resuming the spanking. In this position, from a new angle and with his other hand, he seemed to find new spots to spank and redden, as well as reviving the burn of his previous smacking. Unlike the last bout, when he spanked without speaking, this time he lectured.
“No right, huh?” Smack. Smack. “Let me tell you about rights.” Crack. “Not.” Smack. “Only.” Smack. “Do I have the right.” Smack. “I’ve the responsibility.” Smack. Crack. “Even if there weren’t strong feelings between us and I didn’t have serious intentions toward you, which there are…” Crack. “…and I do.” Smack.
He stopped for a few moments while Tessa lay across his knees, squirming at the furious sting in her backside, kicking her legs, bucking, yelping, and whimpering, any attempts at maintaining dignity long abandoned. Jeez. Who’d believe it! All those weeks of seemingly ignoring her while she crushed on him and now, less than a day after finally getting to know her, not only was he spanking her, but he was declaring the intensity of their feelings and the seriousness of his intentions while doing it!
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Titles by Helen Karol
Erotic Romances
HIS By Design
or individual episodes
Coveting Claire, Correcting Claire, Claiming Claire,
Conquering Claire, Cherishing Claire
The Rancher’s Woman (Published by Stormy Night Publications)
Her Keeper – Reckless Endangerment
or individual episodes
Her Keeper 1 Part 1, Her Keeper 1 Part 2,
Her Keeper1 Part 3, Her Keeper 1 Part 4
Her Keeper2 – individual episodes
Her Keeper 2 Part 1 - In His Custody
Her Keeper 2 Part 2 - In His Custody
Her Keeper 2 Part 2aKU - In His Custody
Her Keeper 2 Part 2bKU - In His Custody
Intimate Knowledge 1-4
Intimate Knowledge Eps 5-7
or individual episodes
Intimate Knowledge 1 Prologue
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 1
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 2
Intimate Knowledge1 Ep 3
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 4
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 5
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 6
Intimate Knowledge 1 Ep 7
Contemporary Romances
Chances & Choices (sweet version of HIS By Design)
The Plan – Chances & Choices Prequel
Collections
Detectives&Desires and Choices Introductory Collection
Detectives&Desires and Choices Collection
Detectives&Desires 1&2 Collection
Intimate Knowledge, The Plan & Coveting Claire
Her Keeper1, The Plan & Coveting Claire
About the Author
A Canadian, currently living in England, I combine my writing with my career as an international teacher. I have worked in many different countries where I have had the opportunity to participate in their culture and make wonderful friends. Before teaching, I was a photographer in the Canadian Air Force. In those days women were scarce in the military and we were lucky to have our pick of so many alpha men. I married one of them and we were blessed with a beautiful daughter.
I love the glamorous world of fashion and the world of film and television so that is where the action is set in my Choices Series. Hot cops are a turn on and thrillers intrigue me so I explore these in my ongoing Detectives & Desires Series. I spent a number of years in the Canadian Rockies and the Ranchlands of Alberta and that inspired my Hope Junction Series with Stormy Night Publications. It is set in a small town in the Wyoming Rockies.
I also have a series of stand-alone short stories planned around The Raffertys - a family with hot alpha males and feisty women who we first met in Intimate Knowledge and Her Keeper. Look out for the first in the series, Her Forbidden Spring. In addition to Her Forbidden Spring, I'm working on the next episodes in my e-serials as well as the next book in the Hope Junction Series.
I write stories I love to read. My students will tell you I am cynical but the fact is - scratch a cynic and you find a romantic underneath! So I really am a romantic at heart and write and devour romance of any kind. Naturally I write romantic love stories. I love strong yet nice guy, tender heroes - th
e bad boy has never really grabbed me - well okay maybe once or twice but I never let him hold on for that long!
I have been lucky to teach media and film for years and l am a big fan of romantic comedy, as well as crime and supernatural films and television. I particularly love the ones with a great enduring love story mixed with intrigue where they are friends as well - like Bones and Vampire Diaries. My love stories are a combination of these - enduring friendships and feuds, romance, alpha males, strong females, bad boys and girls we love to hate, along with cast of characters and a dollop of tongue in cheek humor here and there. My other characters will often have their own love stories in their series while still following the original couples.
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Table of Contents
Cover 1
Coveting Claire 2
Preface 3
Chapter One 5
Chapter Two 10
Chapter Three 15
Chapter Four 24
Chapter Five 30
Chapter Six 35
Excerpts from books by Helen Karol 45
Titles by Helen Karol 52
About the Author 54
Helen Karol Links 56
Table of Contents 57
About this Book 59
About this Book
The year a mutual friend introduces Hollywood haute couture designer Julian West to feature reporter Claire Fitzpatrick they are both grieving the loss of a loved one - Julian his film star wife and Claire her adoring father. Regardless, it is the start of an enduring friendship. A friendship where both comfortably forget the sizzling attraction that flared between them when they first met. Now, six years on, that attraction has re-emerged and Julian and Claire discover that the compatibility they share as best friends is echoed in their erotic preferences. When Julian spanks Claire, she is surprised at how much his short, swift discipline arouses her. As their romance blossoms, it is not long before he takes her across his knee to deliver lengthier bare bottomed spankings both erotic and disciplinary.
But neither of them is prepared for the deep love they each come to feel, but are unsure the other shares. When Claire's ex-lover reappears on the scene and Claire suspects Julian has never stopped loving his late wife, their doubts and fears ignite passions that will either bind them irrevocably together or tear them apart. When they are finally faced with the release of overwhelming emotions Julian has spent years repressing, the couple must decide if they will go their separate ways or if theirs will be a love designed to last.
HIS By Design is an erotic romance with explicit sexual content. It features an independent woman, a hot alpha male Hollywood designer and a determined ex-lover. Expect hot sex, spanking, cuffing with leather restraints, domestic discipline, and some elements of BDSM. All wrapped up in an exploration of grief, fear and the ultimate power of a love that has been brewing for years!