He caught her speeding in a school zone and decided she needed to learn even civil disobedience could have very painful consequences.
Welcome to Sneak Peek Sunday. For this hop we get to share six paragraphs from a published work or a WIP (work in progress).
My submission for this week is from my 3rd book, Arrested by Love. A handsome, but strict, police officer decides a spoiled socialite needs a special lesson in obeying the law.
Tiffany Morgan has been in love with Kyle Sinclair since she was ten years old, when he'd turned her over his knee for attempting to swim in a raging white water river. Though she'd been furious with him at the time, Tiffany never told her family what Kyle did. Instead, she began trailing after him like an annoying younger sister as she tried to gain his attention.
Now, eleven years later, Kyle, a patrol officer, is finding it much more difficult to maintain his distance from the irresistible and vivacious redhead who continues to invent ingenious ways to attract his interest. Though he dismissed her initial attraction to him as infatuation, as she grew-up, his own feelings of desire and protectiveness deepened. So, despite his constant struggle to resist the spirited little minx's lures, Kyle finally has to admit that he is losing the battle--badly.
After Kyle makes it clear to Tiffany that speeding will earn her much more than a ticket from him, he gives into the inevitable and asks her out on a date. He loves her, but isn't sure he's the right guy for her. However, he no longer fights the attraction between them as he dates her exclusively, but Tiffany wants more, so she makes her stand, and Kyle makes it clear how her life will change if they get married. And he persists by asking if she even thought she could live on a budget. When she informs him she is not fiscally irresponsible, he tells her that if she can live for one month on the budget he sets for her, and show how she'd been able to save the rest of her salary, without going to her daddy for help, he will ask her to marry him. But after two weeks in a row of going over, Tiffany seeks out her father.
"Come here, pumpkin," Patrick Morgan said, opening
his arms to his daughter. "Shh. There's no need to cry about it. I'm sure Kyle will understand, though he may
insist you take that dress back."
"But, I can't do that," Tiffany wailed "I've already worn it on one of our
dates, and accidentally spilled some wine on it."
"I see," he said patting her back. "The problem is, pumpkin, I think Kyle
has a very good point. It's past time
you learned to manage your money. Daddy
won't always be there to bail you out when you get into trouble."
She looked up at him with tears streaming out of her
eyes. Her father had never refused to
give her money before when she needed it.
And now when she needed it most he was going to back Kyle. "But, Daddy, I'm afraid."
Her father looked concerned. "Of what, pumpkin? Are you afraid Kyle will hurt you in some
way?"
"No. I'm
afraid he'll say I'm too irresponsible now for him to consider marrying
me. And that means I'd have to live with
you and mom--forever." Hugging her father she gave another mournful
wail.
Tiffany loves Kyle, and wants to prove to him she can will make a good wife, except she's never tried to keep to a budget before, and she quickly discovers it's much harder than she originally thought. She knows going to her father is against the rules, but she can't face Kyle's disappointment for the second week in a row, so she breaks the rule, convincing herself she'll make it up in another way.
M/F, DD and sexy spankings in rural Connecticut.
If you're 18 or older, you can read the first three chapters at Arrested by Love
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She rea is Daddy's girl isn't she lol. A hard lesson for her. Great snippet Kathryn :)
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