Chapter 14 #2
“You are very good in that room, Rory,” she told him with a grin. “Perhaps we should continue our discussion tomorrow? It is getting late,” she purred.
“An excellent idea, babe,” he told her as his arms around her waist tightened, lifting her off the floor. He kicked a chair away from the table. “We just have a little matter to take care of first.”
“What matter?” she whimpered, kissing his neck, enjoying his strong arms around her.
“A little matter of a spanking,” Rory replied, sitting down and easily flipping her over his knees. “I had thought about letting this one go, but after tonight’s little display, I think it’s important to show you just what to expect if you ever run away from me again.”
“Oh, Rory, no,” Tess squealed, wiggling frantically, her hand trying to cover her behind. “Please, do not spank me. I will not run away from you again. I swear it.”
“That’s great news, babe,” he told her lifting her skirt above her waist, admiring her pretty white panties before he slipped them down to her knees.
“Lord, you have a beautiful bottom. It seems a shame to have to punish it when there are so many more enjoyable things we could be doing,” he sighed with resignation resting his huge hand across both cheeks.
Tess relaxed, heaving a sigh of relief, just before his hand came down, cracking firmly on her ass.
“Ow, no, Rory, no,” she screamed, clenching her cheeks tightly.
“Relax baby, don’t clench like that. It only makes it hurt longer,” he informed her, smacking her three more times quickly.
“I cannot help it, you’re killing me,” she sobbed, kicking her feet frantically.
“Hardly, but it is important that you see the difference in this kind of spanking as opposed to what happens in the bedroom. And babe, there are ways to keep you from clenching up like that. A little ginger root makes quite an impression I’m told, but we’ll save that for another time.” Smack.
“Please, Rory, stop,” Tess howled as his hard hand continued to redden her cheeks. At this point she was too mad to cry and she continued to try to get away.
“You may as well settle down. You have a lesson to learn and it seems it might take a while. Do you understand why you are getting spanked, babe?”
“I understand that you are a baboon,” she yelled, trying to blow the hair off her face as she turned her head to glare at him.
“And you are a misbehaving, little brat who needs to understand that running away isn’t acceptable,” he answered giving her a few slightly harder spanks.
“Oh,” Tess moaned, her breath coming in short hard pants as she tired herself out struggling. “I knew you did not really love me,” she cried, tears beginning to leak from her eyes.
Rory froze; his hand in midair. Picking Tess up, he seated her stinging bottom firmly on his lap.
Taking her face in his hand he looked into her eyes.
“You think that because I’m spanking you, I don’t love you?
Nothing could be further from the truth.
Tess, I don’t make a habit of plucking vagrant females from park benches and putting them over my knee.
Nor do I deposit them at my mother’s house instead of carting them off to jail.
You are the exception. In fact, you have been the exception from the very beginning.
Something about you, babe, pulled at my heart and I haven’t been able to get loose.
I don’t know if it was your complete lack of sense, or your trusting little face.
All I know is that from the moment you looked up at me with those big brown eyes, I was a goner.
“I tried to stay detached and treat you as if you were just a family friend, but it wasn’t possible.
Every day I wanted you more and more until I was consumed with it, until I couldn’t get through a day without seeing you, touching you, even in the most innocent ways.
I dreamed of wrapping your beautiful long hair around us as I made love to you.
I wanted to see your face flushed with desire as you called out my name, to watch your eyes cloud over in passion as you quivered in my arms.
“The day of the wedding, I knew I had to make a decision soon or go mad. The second I saw that you had cut your hair, I wanted to blister your behind. Not because it wasn’t attractive, but because I knew why you did it. You were testing me, just as you were when you ran away.”
“No, Rory, I .…”
“Shh … babe, let me finish,” he told her placing a finger over her lips.
“Tess, I know you better than you think. You want a strong man, otherwise you never could have submitted to me as completely as you did last night. I realize you were frightened at times, but you trusted me to take care of you in such an intimate way. I know I told you that your submission would not extend beyond the bedroom, but I find that’s not quite true.
I need you to trust me in all things, Tess.
Trust me to take care of you, love you. Trust that any decision I make regarding you, us, I make with your best interests at heart, always.
“When I didn’t know where you were, couldn’t find you I was angry, yes, but I was also terrified.
Even though you have been on your own for a long time, I don’t believe you have the slightest idea the kinds of horrible things that can happen to a woman in the wrong place at the wrong time.
You haven’t been immune, Tess, you’ve just been incredibly lucky.
Luck won’t protect you forever, babe. Maybe it’s being a cop, or maybe it’s the experiences I had in the military, I don’t know, but it opens your eyes to a side of human nature that no one wants to see. ”
Rory clutched her close, his cheek resting on the top of her head. For a moment he felt slightly sick to his stomach, thinking about the dangers Tess had probably been so close to and never realized it.