The Viscount's Disciplined Reluctant Bride: Regency Corporal Punishment Erotic Degradation Romance

My family taught me that trust leads only to betrayal, so I keep every connection at the length of a command. Lillian's arrival in my life was meant to secure the guardianship, nothing more, yet her resistance to my authority has become the one thing I cannot ignore or resist. The scar on my cheek tightens whenever she challenges me, as if even my body remembers what happens when control slips.

In the oak-paneled study the scent of old wood surrounds us as I place her before the desk, my hand firm at her waist. The correction waits on my tongue, the measured discipline that will degrade her defiance until she admits what her body already knows, and the words hover one breath from changing everything we are.