“Don’t interrupt me again, or you’ll be going to sleep with a red bottom and no story,” he warned.
“I thought you weren’t going to spank me while I was healing.”
“I thought you were feeling all better?” he questioned her. “You can’t have it both ways, little girl. And before you say anything, remember what happens when you lie.”
She sighed. “I do feel a lot better.”
“What about your headaches? Tiredness? Dizzy spells?”
She didn’t really want to answer. But she knew she had to. “I’m still getting headaches.”
“And what helps those headaches?”
“The medicine.”
“And?”
“And a nap,” she answered sulkily.
“Which is why you still need plenty of rest,” he told her. “And don’t think I’ve forgotten that dizzy spell when you got up from lying on the rug earlier.”
“That was just from moving too fast.”
“Uh-huh,” he said dryly. “Now, am I telling the rest of this story without interruption or are you getting a spanking?”
“Story,” she said quickly.
“Right, now, where was I?”
“There was a beautiful princess who never got spanked because she was the best girl in the world.”
He chuckled. “She is beautiful and a good girl, but she will most definitely be getting spanked.”
“Just in the story, though right, Daddy?”
“Oh, didn’t I tell you? This is based on a true story. Because the naughty little princess went riding her horse without telling anyone or taking her phone and got lost and the very patient daddy had to rescue her. When he learned how foolish she had been with her safety, he put her over his knees and raised her skirt to bare her bottom then he laid several hard smacks to her ass. The princess protested that she shouldn’t be subjected to such a punishment, after all she was a princess. But the daddy didn’t care about that. All he cared about was keeping the princess safe. And he knew the best way to ensure that she never got into trouble again was to give her a good hard spanking. So, he smacked her bottom until it was bright red and she was sobbing and remorseful. And when it was over, he held her in his arms and rocked her and told her that she was too important to be so reckless. The end.”
“No, that’s not the end.”
“No?”
“No, it always goes ‘and they lived happily ever after’.” She yawned again and snuggled in against him as she fell off asleep.
Bear lay there, with her tucked in against him unable to sleep.
Happily ever after.
It only it was that simple.
* * *
“I want to come.”
“No.”
She crossed her arms over her chest. “What if you need my help?”
He shot her a look. Yeah, okay, he wasn’t likely to need her help. But still, she didn’t want to be left in the cabin on her own while he went to check the state of the road.