"Do you wish to... punish me, master?"
Mathew looked down at Nadia's face... and gulped down his saliva.
She was cute, that part was an undeniable fact that in itself sounded like a simplification so great it was no different from a lie.
But with her eyes glistering, her lips trembling and her body slightly tensing up...
"Punish is a strong word," Mathew muttered after overcoming the mental attack of Nadia's adorableness. He then reached out and pushed away a strand of the hair that fell on her face, turning the motion of his hand into a gentle caress of her cheek. "Discipline would fit better," he added, forcing his lips to form a small grin.
"And how will you..." Nadia purposefully used long pauses while playing her new role, "discipline me?"
