A Short Leash

by Loki Renard

  Before Sierra could answer, Charles slapped her bottom several times very hard. “I have always been gentle with you,” he said. “But that is because you have always been good for me. You need to keep being good or you will be a very sorry girl.”

  Wriggling in his grasp, Sierra spat like a wildcat. “Where is Kade?”

  “He is in the hospital,” Charles informed her, slapping her bottom again. “And you are in my care. Now get yourself under control, Sierra, or I will do it for you and I promise you, my girl, you will not like it one bit.”

  “What will you do? Drug me again?”

  Charles leaned down, his lips half an inch from her ear. “Sweetheart, I will strap every inch of your bottom and pussy.”

  In spite of her anger and her rage, Sierra felt a tremor rush through her. This was Charles as she had not known him before. Calm, yes, but more masterful and intense than ever before.

  “I was hoping to talk to you,” Charles said. “But instead you wanted to hit me. You know that’s unacceptable, don’t you?”

  Sierra did know that it was unacceptable, but it was too late to change what she had done. Besides, he had drugged her and that was unacceptable too.

  “You deserved it.”

  “Ah, then you deserve this.” Charles sat down on the bed and turned her about so her head was facing away from him, her bottom perched over his thigh, her legs on either side of his. Her pussy pressed against his leg as she wriggled on the fulcrum of his body, waiting for the inevitable.

  It came in the form of hot, hard slaps painting her bottom and her thighs with heat and pain. For the most part it was nothing Sierra hadn’t experienced before, but Charles was not Kade and his touch was different. He spanked faster, and with more precision. He used his other hand not to hold her in place, but to spread her cheeks and bare the cleft of her bottom to his punishing strikes.

  Sierra yelped as he began spanking her there, taking a thorough approach that left her without any modicum of modesty. Her cheeks were being disciplined from top to bottom, and when he reached into his pocket and pulled out a thin strap of leather, she let out a whine.

  “What is that?”

  “This is the strap that will teach you not to ever slap me again,” Charles said, keeping her cheeks spread. He brought the strap down lengthwise down her cheeks, catching the depths of her cleft and the tender bud of her anus with the damnable thing.

  “Eeeeowww!” Sierra screeched at the top of her lungs. The strap bit like an angry hornet, leaving her writhing over Charles’ lap. “Stop! That hurts!”

  “Does it now?” Charles paused, his palm patting her bottom. “What do you have to say for yourself then?”

  “Nothing,” Sierra growled. She was rewarded for her insolence with another cut of that strap, this time across her nether-lips. The sudden stinging impact made her buck over Charles’ thigh, whining as she did. “I mean… I’m sorry.”

  “Are you?”

  “I’m scared,” she added. She felt him melt as he laid back on the bed, her thighs still spread around his as his touch turned from punishing harshness to tender softness. He rubbed her bottom and looked into her flushed face.

  “I know you are, Sierra. I was going to tell you before you slapped me. Kade survived surgery very well. He’s going to be home soon. You’ve nothing to worry about.”

  She pulled her arms up under her and looked across at him with a small measure of shyness. Her bottom was burning deep in the crevice and she knew she would not soon forget the punishment, but the news of Kade’s recovery overshadowed all her discomfort. “Really?”

  “Really,” he reassured her. “In fact, he should be home any minute now, so why don’t you go get cleaned up and make yourself look nice, presentable, and relatively unpunished.”

  “A little late for that.” Kade’s voice growled through the room, quickening Sierra’s pulse. She leaped up from Charles, turned and threw herself across the room into Kade’s arms. He made a grunting sound as she wrapped her arms around him tight and looked up into his face, almost unable to believe that he was there.

  “Easy,” Charles said from the bed. “He’s still recovering; try not to squeeze him to death.”

  “It’s alright,” Kade said, holding Sierra just as tight. “I know how she feels.”

  “Did they fix you?” Sierra looked him over. “What about your arm?”

  Upon closer examination she saw that his left arm was quite different than it had been. It wasn’t just healed, it was… new. Though it looked almost normal, she could sense that it wasn’t. The scent was wrong, as was the appearance. It was just a little too shiny and it was completely unmarked by scars.

  “This is a biosynthetic arm,” he said with a little grin. “All the better to spank you with.”

  Sierra marveled at the technology of the citizens. What a world they lived in where a man could be given a new arm. For the first time in her life, she was grateful to the people of the city. If Kade had been treated in the wilds, he would surely have died. Thanks to them he was not only not dead, but he had a new limb that seemed almost as good as the first.

  “You are not allowed to go anywhere without me,” Sierra informed him, wrapping her arms around his neck and biting the side of it with light possession.

  “Is that so, my pet?”

  “It is,” she said. “I found you all on my own. You cannot say my senses are not sharp enough anymore.”

  “That is true,” he agreed, cupping her bottom with his good palm. “Thank you, Sierra,” he murmured, nuzzling her gently. “You saved my life.”

  Sierra whispered her reply, for her voice was beginning to crack and her eyes fill with tears as emotion so deep she could barely contain it filled her body and soul.

  “You saved mine first.”

  She was no longer the wild one she had been, nor the desperate captive she had become, or even the frightened pet taken to Kade’s arms. She was more than all of that now. She was mate to two men, the feminine link in a chain so strong it would not be broken as long as she drew breath. Her senses soared as she held Kade and reached for Charles. Both men wrapped their arms around her, holding her close as they whispered words of love and comfort in each of her ears. Though her bottom throbbed and would probably never be unmarked, she had discovered an oasis of love and contentment beyond anything she had thought possible.

  The journey had been long and painful, and sometimes she had thought she was all alone and would forever be so, but every breath had led to this perfect love with her hunter and her doctor. Her wounds were healed, her health restored, her heart open so much so that she could not help but weep with joy and then moan with pleasure as comforting kisses turned to passionate petting and the bonding began all over again.

  The End

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