Gavin chuckled. “I know you’re curious to find out what it will feel like when I spank your pretty bottom, Molly, and you’re going to find out if you don’t shift back soon.” He rubbed his palms together.
Her eyes widened, and her ears stood up.
“That’s right. I’m going to start counting. Whatever number I get to before I have my human mate back is how many swats you’re going to get on your naughty little bottom.”
Molly leaped to her paws. Apparently she wasn’t interested in being spanked tonight because she closed her eyes and shifted back so fast no one would believe it was her first shift.
As soon as she was back in human form, she covered her ears and sat trembling in front of him.
Gavin dropped to his knees next to the bed and set his hands on either side of her hips. “Molly, what’s wrong? Talk to me.”
“It’s so loud, Daddy.”
He frowned. “What’s loud, Baby girl? I don’t hear anything.” Is this what she’d been doing all evening? Covering her ears from noises he could not hear?
“Everything. So many noises.”
He could scent her frustration and her stress. She squeezed her legs together as he watched and felt her distress grow. He was at a loss and helpless to figure out how to fix this for her.
Finally, he had an idea. He held out a finger, rose, and padded from the room. After hurrying to his office, he grabbed his headset from next to the computer and rushed back to his mate.
He held it up and met her gaze so she could see his lips. “This is a noise-cancelling headset. I use it for music, but maybe it will help.” He wasn’t sure if she heard him fully or not, but he liftedthe set over her head and lowered it so the two sides covered her ears as she moved her hands away.
She grabbed the headset on both sides and grinned up at him as relief flooded her system. Thank goodness as her mate he was so in tune with her emotions. He might not be able to read her mind, but he could definitely sense when his mate was in distress or calm. Happy or sad. He would learn every one of her scents in the coming days and be able to know what she needed.
Right now, she was giddy that he’d silenced the noises.
Now, what the absolute fuck were the noises she spoke of?
Chapter Ten
Molly was exhausted. She could tell by the look on her mate’s face that whatever she was experiencing was not normal. All she had the energy to internalize, though, was that his headset blocked out everything and allowed her to breathe.
He lifted her off the bed, stood her on her feet, and proceeded to change the sheets on the bed. She was still running hotter than normal, so she wasn’t cold, but her knees were quickly threatening to give out from exhaustion.
Finally, he was done, and he grabbed a diaper from the nightstand. He held it up before pointing at it and then the bathroom. He was giving her a choice. Toilet or diaper.
She swallowed hard as she made the strangest choice she’d ever made, lifting her finger to point at the diaper. Her primary thought was that she was about to sleep ten hours, and she was afraid she would sleep so hard that she might wet the bed. That would be far more embarrassing than letting him diaper her.
Gavin lifted her up to gently settle her on her back on the bed. He kissed her tummy before he lifted her heels to slide the diaper under her. Self-consciousness washed over her when he spread her legs wide, and the moment he turned to open the drawer on the nightstand, she pulled her knees together.
When he resumed facing her, he narrowed his gaze and gave her a stern look, saying nothing. She wouldn’t have been able to hear him, but also he didn’t need to say a word. She understood his reprimand fine.
Her cheeks flushed as she parted her thighs, and they heated further when he made no move to continue. It took a second for it to dawn on her that she hadn’t spread wide enough. She whimpered as she pressed her knees into the mattress, opening her pussy up completely.
“Good girl,” he mouthed as he opened the tube he was holding.
She didn’t dare argue or move an inch while he squeezed some kind of ointment on his finger and then carefully spread it on her pussy. Her lips trembled the entire time. Nerve endings she’d never been aware of before today were no longer dormant. He’d awakened something in her that would forever be present. A need that was now growing as he stroked her folds.
She whimpered when he put the lid back on the tube and pulled the front of the diaper up around her hips. Breathing heavily, she was aware that her nipples were hard and her pussy was swollen and wet. How often would this happen?
He surely knew. Nothing would ever get by him. His shaft was fully erect, though she had no idea what it would look like when it wasn’t because she’d yet to see it in any other state.
Daddy moved around the room, turning off lights before returning to the bed. He’d left a nightlight on in the bathroom. It illuminated the room enough to keep her from getting scared if she woke up in the night.
The bed dipped as he joined her, and he easily moved her right where he wanted her before pulling the covers over them, arranging her back against his chest, and wrapping his arms around her. He kissed her neck before lifting the edge of theheadset just enough to whisper, “You’re safe, Little one. Sleep. I’ll be right with you all the time.”
“Thank you, Daddy,” she responded as he settled the earpiece back into place. She took deep breaths. The silence was welcome. Her mind wouldn’t relax, though. She had too many questions.
