Lessons for Lexi (6 page)

JT crossed his arms over his chest and
watched her with amusement. “You think I’m a psychotic pervert?”

“Absolutely,” she put her hands on her
hips. “You proved the psychotic part by spanking me and you proved the pervert
part by having a hard-on the whole time you were doing it.”

JT let out a startled laugh. “You felt
that?”

She tossed a half dozen rolled pairs of
socks into her suitcase. “Of course I felt it. I was lying on your lap for
God’s sake.”

JT shrugged. “What can I say? You’re a
pretty girl and you have a cute ass. There was bound to be a reaction.” His
only answer was a glare that could melt ice. “To be entirely honest with you, I
was more talking about the kicking you out part than the spanking. Actually, I
think a spanking was exactly what you deserved for your part in this. Maybe not
as hard as the one I gave you, but yes, I think spanking you was the
appropriate response for bringing drugs onto my property.”

Lexi’s jaw tightened as she closed her
suitcase but she didn’t respond. She’d had her moments of misgivings when
Pennypinch and Althea had been discussing it, but she didn’t feel like it was
her place to stop it. It was Althea’s house after all. Of course, she had
ignored the fact that it was also JT’s house. “I didn’t bring drugs onto your
property.”

“No, you brought a person that you knew
would bring drugs. Don’t tell me that you didn’t know his van was full of pot
plants when he got here.”

“I didn’t know you were so uptight.”

JT hand’s clenched. ”It’s not about
being uptight, Alex. It’s about a felony. And you’re one to talk about being
uptight. You’re getting all upset about one little spanking.”

“It was an assault and it was
humiliating.” Lexi responded
,
her voice filled with
venom.

“
Which is why I can
be pretty sure that I won’t find marijuana plants growing in the back yard
again.
See how that works?” She lifted her suitcase off the bed.
 
“What, you’ve never gotten spanked before?”

Lexi glared at him but didn’t respond.

“I’ll be damned, you haven’t.” JT laughed
out loud. “
Me
and my brother just about wore out every
belt my father owned. Wow, damn shame.” He gave her a once over. “It probably
could have benefitted you if someone started beating your backside earlier.”

Lexi rolled here eyes and tried to push
her way past him.

“Alex, I’m serious, please stay.”

“Bite me.” She walked around him but he
slid in front of her again.

“Fine, if you’re going to leave, at
least clear the air with Althea. I don’t want her thinking it was something she
did.”

“I was going to do that anyway.” Lexi
reached for the door knob.

“Make sure you tell her what I did
too.”

She stopped. “Excuse me?”

“Well,” JT crossed his arms over his
chest and looked at her lazily, “if you’re going to leave, I think Althea
should know the exact reason why.
Probably Radford too.
It’s only fair that he know the reason he’s being uprooted from his home. Do
you want to tell them I spanked you, or should I?”

“You’re not serious.” Lexi was
horrified at the idea of ever even mentioning it again. The spanking she’d
gotten earlier was something she’d planned on taking to her grave.

JT was somber. “It’s the right thing to
do.”

“You’re an asshole.”

“I know,” JT stepped towards her and
leaned down until they were nose to nose. “But you’re going to stay.”

Lexi calmed her breathing down, taking
slow deep breaths. She was stuck. There was no way that she would ever tell
anyone what JT had done, and she’d die of humiliation if he did. If anyone ever
found out, it would be on the news in no time. She was also sure that the
Republican Party would throw JT a parade.
“Fine.
Just
keep your hands to yourself,” she replied darkly.

“As long as you keep the drugs off my
property, that shouldn’t be a problem.”

Chapter 6

She didn’t even make it another week
before she was getting disciplined again. After JT left, she’d demanded that
Pinchpenny move the plants. He’d put them in the van, but when the weather
reported a possible frost, she’d relented to them hiding the plants in the
garage, just for one night. JT wasn’t expected to show up again for a few days and
she figured she’d be safe.

Unfortunately for Lexi, JT decided to
adjust his schedule. On a Saturday night at 7, just as she was getting ready to
head up to her room, the house phone rang. She made the mistake of picking it
up.

“Alex, just the person I was hoping to
talk to. Can you come meet me in the garage?” Lexi’s stomach dropped as JT’s
barely contained anger bled through the phone line.

Apparently, he’d decided on a surprise
inspection. And judging from his location and the anger in his voice, he had
found the pot plants they’d hidden. Her mind flashed back to what had happened
the last time he’d found pot on the property. She hung up the phone and bolted
for the front door.

Raj looked up at her in surprise.
“Where are you going?”

“China,” she choked out as she yanked
open the door.

He turned his attention back to the TV.
“Have fun.”

Lexi made it to the driveway before she
noticed that JT had blocked her in. She spun around and found him watching her
from the back of Pinchpenny’s van. In two strides, his hand clamped around her
upper arm and he began to drag her forward to his car. “Had a feeling you’d try
to run.”

“JT listen,” she dug in her heels. He
kept dragging, opening his passenger side door and pushing her to get it. She
looked up at him in alarm. “Where are we going?”

“My apartment.
Based on how
long, and how loud it’s going to be, we’ll need our privacy.” He bent over her
and buckled her seat belt, then stood, looking down at her again. “If you move
one inch out of that spot, I will drag you back and we’ll just do it here in
the garage.”

Lexi swallowed and didn’t move a
muscle. It was bad enough she was about to get her ass beat. She didn’t want to
worry about someone walking in on it too.

“The funny thing,” JT said as he
buckled his seatbelt, “was that if you had just come down to the garage and
pretended to be surprised when you saw the plants, I would have just assumed
Althea and your hippy friend did it behind your back.”

Lexi tensed as he gunned the engine.
“Shit, I didn’t even think of that.”

“Now is not the best time to use four
letter words.”

Lexi clamped her mouth shut so she
could resist the urge to tell him to fuck off. The shock of getting caught had
worn off and her mind was racing for ways out of what was about to happen. When
he paused at a red light at an intersection, she considered jumping out and
running for it. As if he had read her mind, he pressed the button for the door
lock. She jumped a little as all four locks tumbled shut at once.

The drive from Althea’s to JT’s was
about 20 minutes, but to Lexi, it passed by in seconds. Soon, they were pulling
into his parking spot and heading towards the elevator. He kept his hand
clamped around her upper arm the entire time as if he expected her to run. She
considered it more than once. They rode the elevator in silence and she
stiffened as the doors opened on the top floor.

“The elevator opens right into your
apartment?” Lexi was momentarily distracted by the view. His apartment was
huge, lots of open space, with dark, masculine, geometrically shaped furniture.
It reminded her of her loft at home.

JT raised a key card.
“Special key code.
Only this card opens the elevator.”

“Oh,” Lexi walked forward into the room,
again feeling nervous. She wrapped her arms around herself as JT walked past
her into the kitchen. He picked up the phone and walked back to Lexi. “Call my
aunt and tell her you’ll be gone all night. I don’t want her to worry.”

Lexi had to force her frozen fingers to
wrap around the handset.
“All night?”
Her voice was
almost a whisper.

He only nodded.

She made the phone call. Raj answered
and she thanked god for small favors when he didn’t ask any follow up
questions. She hung up quickly, half dreading what was to come and half wanting
to just get it over with.

JT crossed his arms over his chest again
and watched her from the center of the room. While she had been on the phone,
he’d dragged a chair into the center of his sunken den. It was in front of two
large bay windows that gave a view of the city sky line. Lexi hated the spot.
Even though she knew no one would see it, she felt like she would be on
display.

“I noticed that last
time,
the embarrassment is a little worse for you than the actual punishment.”

Lexi stared at a spot on the floor
rather than him. She gave a brief nod.

“Take off your clothes.”

Lexi’s entire body went cold. She
prayed she had heard him wrong. “What?”

“I’m assuming a nude spanking is a hell
of a lot more embarrassing than a clothed one. Hopefully, that will drive the
point home this time.” He nodded at her. “Now strip.”

She clutched her shirt in her hands.
“JT, no.”
Her voice was breathy and her plea came out as a
choked whisper. Her face was burning red and she knew she was going to start
crying at any second.

He was unmoved. “Either you take them
off or I do.”

Lexi closed her eyes and swallowed. It
took her a minute to make her hands move. After a second and a couple deep
breaths, she started to lift her shirt to pull it over her head. She couldn’t
look at JT. Instead she kept her gaze focused on the floor.
 
She clumsily pulled her shirt over her head
and tossed it on the kitchen table. She started to unbutton her jeans. She
could feel his eyes on her as she pushed them down to the floor and stepped out
of them. Then, she was standing before him in nothing but her underwear, a
plain pink cotton set. She froze with her arms crossed over in front of her.

“Alex, stop stalling.” His voice
sounded deeper than usual.

Her eyes filled with tears and she
hugged herself tighter. “I’m not fucking stalling,” she spewed out bitterly. “I’m
scared.”

She heard him walk towards her, but
still couldn’t look up. She closed her eyes and one of her tears spilled over.
When he was within arms distance of her, she expected him to start wrestling
her out of her
undies
. She flinched when he raised a
hand. Instead of grabbing her, he used a thumb to wipe the tear off her cheek.
His voice was low when he spoke again.

“First, there’s no reason for you to be
so scared.” JT told her firmly. “Nothing that is going to happen tonight is
going to cause any permanent damage. Yes, it will hurt, and it will be
embarrassing, but I’m not going to seriously injure you.” He dropped his hand
from her face and Lexi sucked in a breath as he moved it to the clasp of her
bra instead. “Also, this is the last warning I’m going to give you about using
four letter words.” He popped open the back clasp of her bra and Lexi hugged
herself tightly to keep it from falling off.

“’Fucking’ isn’t a four letter word,”
she spat at him sarcastically, “it’s seven.”

“You’re going to regret clarifying that
later.” JT crouched down, looping his thumbs through the waistband of her
panties. Lexi gave a startled squeak as he yanked them down to her ankles.
“Step out.” With her hands still clenched over her stomach and breasts, she
stepped out of the panties he’d pulled down. His eyes fixed on her arms as he
straightened. “Move your hands.”

Lexi’s eyes were glassy and she let out
a sob before shaking her head. She was shivering, but she wasn’t cold. She
couldn’t make her arms move. She gasped when JT grabbed her wrists with a
frustrated huff and yanked them away from her body. Her bra traveled down to
her elbows and JT hurriedly ripped it off and tossed it on the floor. He held
her wrists apart and his gaze traveled down her body. Lexi couldn’t hold back
anymore and she started to sob.

“Calm down,” his voice was soothing,
but his eyes weren’t on her face. Instead, they were traveling across a maze of
scars crossing her abdomen. They were faded, but still slightly raised. He
released her wrist and she let her arm drop down to her side, not trying to
cover herself anymore. There was no point. He’d seen everything. Her crying
calmed to slight whimpers as he trailed a finger across one of the scars. “What
happened?”

Her voice was thick and it was hard to
speak. “I don’t want to talk about it.”

His hand moved to her chin and he
tilted it up so she’d look at him. “Alex,” his voice was cajoling.

She pushed his hand away. “Let’s just
get this over with.” She shoved past him and with as much dignity as she could
muster, moved to stand next to the chair he’d placed in the center of the room.