She twisted away, refusing to answer.
“I thought not. Your mistress was so annoyed with your behavior, she’s refused the gift and dumped you back on me.”
He pulled out the flat wooden board with the narrow handle Nadina had handed him when she met him at the entrance to the city. “It’s from Eva,” she’d whispered, pressing it into his hand. “She says your grandfather taught her there are many different ways for a man to express love and caring. Each one has its place and time.”
“Now that you’re mine again, I intend to start out on the right foot,” he announced. “You’ve endangered both our lives once more with a rash, thoughtless act. You’re getting a long hard spanking. And nothing you say or do will deter me.”
He tossed his cloak in the far corner of the cave and sat down on it with his back to the wall. “Come here.” He patted his thighs.
Lexi scooted as far away from him as she could, shaking her head wildly.
He sighed. “Every time you ignore me, you earn yourself five more swats. You have nowhere to go. You’ll have to do as I say eventually. Best do it now and save your ass those extra licks.”
He saw the moment she admitted defeat in the sag of her shoulders. She crawled toward him like a naughty child who knows she’s been caught. She’d tossed off her cloak and her skirt rode up as she moved, offering tantalizing glimpses of those long slim thighs. He remembered how tightly they’d clamped around his waist as he buried himself inside her that last night in the grotto. His cock was stiff before she ever draped herself over his lap.
He wanted nothing more than to take her in his arms and declare his love, bury his aching rod deep inside her again, but he forced himself to carry through with his threat. She laid there, limp, all the zest for life he’d come to love drained out of her. He’d done that—and he was determined to change it.
He slid her skirt up to her waist, baring her bottom. Then he ran a hand over the curvy twin cheeks, feeling her shiver at his touch. She hissed at the first whack of the paddle. He’d never spanked her with anything but his hand before and he reminded himself not to let fear and anger overcome him.
“Do you know why you’re getting paddled?” When she didn’t respond, he smacked her again.
“Y-yes,” she managed to mutter through clenched teeth.
He gave her another firm whack. “Tell me.”
“I ran away.”
He stopped and ran his hand over her ass. Her skin already felt warm to the touch. “Is that it?”
She hesitated and he wielded the paddle again, landing another stroke right across the center. The paddle was long enough to strike both cheeks at once. Lexi gasped, squirming on his lap. His cock jerked in response. He brought the paddle down on the same spot.
“Yes! I mean no! I don’t know,” she howled.
“Then listen and learn.” He whacked her again. “First, you didn’t ask permission to leave your quarters.” Another whack. “Second, I’ve told you never to venture into the outlands alone. You didn’t just run away and hide somewhere in the city. You ignored my orders.” He smacked her again, harder. She choked back a sob.
“Third, you put lives in danger again. Yours and mine, since I had to come out here and rescue you.” This time he delivered three sharp whacks, one after another without pausing. She cried out, a heartrending wail.
“You were selfish and thoughtless. Never considering my heartbreak when I found out you were gone. Never taking a moment to imagine my sorrow and pain if something happened to you.” He wielded the paddle steadily now, over and over, hard enough to emphasize his points as he poured out his heart.
“I’m sorry. I… didn’t think… you cared,” she managed to stammer through her tears.
He tossed the paddle across the cave and reached down to gather her in his arms. “Care? I don’t just care. I love you,” he said, cradling her on his lap. “I love everything about you. Your zest for life. The way your face lights up when you see something you’ve never seen before. I love your hunger for knowledge. I love the sound of your laughter. I do crazy things sometimes, just to make you laugh. Remember when I tried to climb to the top of the waterfall and slipped and fell in? I did that on purpose. Just to hear you laugh when I came spluttering to the surface.”
He bent his head to drop a kiss on her forehead. Then he drew back to look into her eyes. “Truth be told, it is I who owe you an apology. You offered me your heart and I wasn’t man enough to accept it. I let fear of being hurt rule my actions. I rejected you and I know I hurt you. I’m so sorry, Lexi. Will you forgive me?”
The whispered word “yes” had barely left her lips when he captured them in a kiss.
“There’s one more thing I need to say. I know you want to go back to Earth if you get the chance. And I don’t blame you. It’s your home. But if you’ll still have me, I humbly ask you to be my mate. Live with me, let me love you with all my heart for as long as you are here.”
This time her voice was stronger. “Yes.”
* * *
He kissed her again, with a fierce intensity. Lexi opened her mouth to his, gave herself to the kiss. Without breaking contact, he shifted, lying her body on the soft cloak and positioning himself over her.
She opened her legs, slipping one hand down, wrapping it around the hot length of him, guiding the head of his cock to her damp core. She moaned when he bore down, pressing her aching bottom against the hard stone floor. He pulled away.
“I paddled your bottom for running away but it’s I who deserved to be whipped for hurting you with my actions. Let me ease your pain.”
He slid down her body. Raising her legs to rest on his shoulders, he bent his head and ran his tongue slowly over her moist folds. Lexi shuddered and clenched her fists in his hair. He looked up at her, his eyes dark, then stuck out his tongue, making sure she watched as he flicked it back and forth over her clit. Lexi moaned again, this time out of sheer hunger.
He flipped her body over and put her legs back on his shoulders, so quickly she barely realized what he was doing. The next instant, she felt his tongue tracing circles over her burning bottom. He dug his fingers into her hips, spreading apart the cheeks of her ass, and ran his tongue around the tight pucker of her back channel. He had her pinned in place, unable to move, unable to resist. Lexi felt a jolt of raw lust as his tongue probed. Her body responded at a primal level to his complete mastery.
“Yes. Yes yes yes…”
Ayron responded by slipping a finger into her wet channel, then spreading the dampness back as he worked it into her ass. Tremors rocked her body and she thrust her hips back to take in more. He moved, holding her up from underneath with one hand, stroking and pinching her throbbing clit while he slipped two fingers of his other hand deeper into her ass. Plunging them in and out. Taking her higher and higher. Until she shattered, shaking and screaming as the orgasm tore through her.
He rolled, taking her with him, positioning her body over his cock as he lay on his back. “Claim me now,” he growled.
Her pussy quivered with need. Lexi got to her knees and looked down at him. Teasing, tantalizing, she lowered herself ever so slowly onto his swollen member. Backing off, then going further. Taking her time, prolonging the moment of gratification for both of them. She felt his body shaking with the effort to lie still.
Finally, he could bear it no longer. With a roar, he rolled on top of her and rammed his cock inside. Her pussy clenched around him as he thrust in and out, faster and faster. He tensed, then gave one final lunge. His cock pulsed inside her. She came again, swept along as his arms tightened around her and his mouth descended on hers.
Epilogue
“Mama! Mama!” Alex burst into the room, running as fast as his stubby legs would carry him.
“Mamamamamama.” Evita toddled along after her brother, repeating everything he said, mimicking his excitement although she had no idea what all the fuss was about.
Lexi bent to catch both of them in her arms, n
uzzling them against her full breasts. It would be time to nurse Evita soon, one part of her mind registered. “What is it, my little darlings?”
“Somebody has come,” Alex blurted out. “I don’t know who but papa does. I don’t think he likes him very much. His face looks mad. Like this.” He frowned and furrowed his eyebrows. Evita clapped her hands gleefully and tried to work her lips into a pout.
Their father strode in after them, his face unreadable. “Alex, take your sister into the other room to play. I must speak with your mother.”
His tone struck terror into her heart. “What’s wrong?”
He took her hand and drew her down to sit beside him at the table. “A messenger arrived from Mother Ana’s Tryb. They found a group of strangers wandering in the outlands.” He stopped for a moment, swallowed hard, then went on. “Earthers. They’ve reopened the Portal and they want to establish relations with us here on Iridia.”
She stared at him wordlessly.
“You know what this means, don’t you? You can go home. Back to your planet. Back to the life you left behind.”
Lexi closed her eyes. Earth. She’d dreamed of it often over the past five years. The oddest dreams, filled with fragments of her life there. Sometimes she was back in the Hall of Science, whispering with Devon while Director Nilsson droned on. Other times she stood alone at the floor-to-ceiling window of her apartment on the 247th floor, looking down on the gleaming white city below.
She opened her eyes to see Ayron staring at her, his face reflecting a mixture of fear and sorrow. She started to speak but his finger on her lips stopped her.
“It’s all right, my love. I understand. I told you when you agreed to mate with me I would love you for as long as fate allowed. Go. Just promise me you’ll come back from time to time to see the children.”
Her eyes flashed. “You think I would be separated from my children?”
If anything he looked even more stricken. “Please. Do not take them from me. You could not be so cruel.”
She got up and began pacing around the small room, ranting all the while. “I cannot believe you know me so little! Do you really think I’d take our children away from you, away from the only home they’ve ever known? And for what? To go to Earth? True, my life was orderly there. Day followed day, one the same as the next. I had every convenience modern technology could provide. My time was my own, my home always neat and silent.”
She whirled around the room. “Here is chaos. Here is sweetness and sorrow, squabbling children, endless chores, moments of sheer bliss, and yes, sometimes anger. But this is where my life is. Why would I choose to go back to that sterile, passionless planet? This is where I’ve discovered joy and laughter. And found love such as I never knew existed before.” She sank to her knees in front of him and drew his hand to her breast. “Can you feel it? Can you feel my heart? I could never leave you, leave them. It would kill me as much as tearing this heart from my body while it still beats.”
Ayron took her in his arms. His kiss thrilled her, filled her with as much passion as it had the first time he captured her mouth with his.
“I love you, Alexis Sims. And I thank the gods for the cosmic mishap they created to bring you into my life.”
The End
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