"Then you're getting five spankings. You're going to count them out loud and you're going to say'I'm sorry'each time. Do you understand?"
Remi’s body flooded instantly with arousal and humiliation simultaneously. His hole clenched as wetness started to gather between his legs and his cock began to harden. His embarrassment forced him to try at least a little resistance.
"B-But Daddy..."
"Are you talking back to me now?" Dimitrios asked, fingertips pressing into the tender joints of Remi’s jaw.
"No Daddy... I-I understand."
"Good. Bedroom. Now. Take off your clothes and lay them on the foot of the bed. Keep your panties on. Then bend over the side of it and wait for me."
Remi had fresh, hot tears in his eyes as he followed the instructions to the letter, and it was a perfect kind of humiliation because he was already hard and wet, even though he was crying. He wanted Dimitrios and he hoped that his Daddy would take care of him after his punishment, because Remi really hadn’t wanted Cade to hug him. He hadn't seen it coming.
The omega stood by the bed and undressed with shaking hands, folding his clothes neatly and stacking them on the foot of the bed. Just in his panties, he bent over the edge of the bed and waited, his hands gripping into the comforter as he shivered both from cold and anticipation.
After watching Remi disappear into the bedroom, Dimitrios took a few minutes to calm himself down. The alpha leaned against the couch and closed his eyes, probing his own thoughts and feelings. Dimitrios wanted to make sure he was doing this for the right reasons. He wasn’t some asshole who took his bad day out on his lover just because he could.
The alpha took a few deep, even breaths and finally opened his eyes, feeling much calmer. Dimitrios was certain. He didn't actually want to hurt Remi. Dimitrios just wanted to punish the omega. Dimitrios' blood was still running hot, but now from arousal. He wanted to spank Remi. Dimitrios was certain that the omega wanted it too.
When Dimitrios entered the bedroom, he was pleased to see that Remi was exactly where he'd instructed him to be. His little one was still so good for him. He knew that the omega hadn't disobeyed on purpose.
Remi was bent over the bed, his clothes on the end in a neat stack. Dimitrios discovered that his thoughts that morning were right. The panties were a thong, pink and lacy. The omega’s perfect ass was on display, his little hands bunched in the dark comforter. Remi’s skin glowed beautifully against the slate-colored cotton.
Dimitrios could smell Remi’s slick faintly, and he felt his own cock throb at the knowledge that Remi was aroused by this too. But when he brushed his hand over Remi's ass cheek, the omega jumped and whimpered, which made him hesitate. He didn't want Remi to be scared, especially not of him.
"It's okay, Baby. You know I don't want to hurt you, right? I don't want you to be afraid of me." Dimitrios said quietly, running his hand up over the silken, pale skin of Remi’s shoulders. “You don’t have to do this. If you want to go home, I’ll take you home. No questions asked. Okay, little one?”
"I'm not afraid of you, Daddy." Remi replied. The omega truly wasn’t scared, he was just tense. He knew that Dimitrios wouldn’t really hurt him. Remi wanted this, even if he was going to give Cade a piece of his mind for causing it. The idea of leaving now left a terrible ache in the omega’s gut. “I don’t want to go home. I want to stay with you, Daddy.”
The omega’s words were sure, and that soothed Dimitrios’ worries. The last thing he wanted was to lose Remi’s trust. Even if Remi was still sniffling and had tears in his eyes, Dimitrios knew that his little one trusted his Daddy to know what he needed. Dimitrios smoothed his hand over Remi’s back a few more times to reassure the omega.
"I'm doing this for your own good. You know that right?" Dimitrios said, moving down to caress the omega’s ass with an open palm.
"Yes, Daddy." Remi said, slightly stuffy from crying.
“If it’s too much, tell me to stop and I will stop. Do you understand?”
“Yes, Daddy.”
Dimitrios unbuckled his belt, and Remi could hear the soft sound of metal clicking. It made a shiver roll up his spine as he heard the leather being pulled from the alpha's belt loops and more sounds as he assumed it was being folded in half and gripped in Dimitrios’ hand.
The alpha adjusted his grip. The belt was already folded in half, but he folded the part he held up a few extra inches to make it less whip-like and give him control over the strip of leather. Regardless, Dimitrios wasn’t going to hit with full strength, nowhere near.
The alpha was calm and in control now. Remi’s perfect submission made it easy for him to control his earlier irritation and stress. This was where Dimitrios thrived, with his little vanilla baby. He brushed the belt across his ass, letting Remi feel it so he’d know what to expect and wouldn’t be surprised.
"Do you remember what to do?" The alpha asked.
"Yes, Daddy."
Dimitrios brought the belt down across his cheeks and Remi gasped at the shock of pain. The skin of his ass burned and stung as his thigh muscles fluttered and clenched. More tears immediately gathered in Remi’s eyes and his hands gripped harder into the bedspread, but he was a good boy and remembered what he had to do. Even if he was overwhelmed by the entire scene, Remi would not fail his Daddy again.
"O-one. I'm sorry." Remi hiccuped out in a little sob.
Dimitrios delivered the next two in quick succession. The alpha watched as Remi’s whole body seemed to react to the pain, his legs twitching and his back curling upward, but he didn’t move out of position. The omega just cried out into the blanket under him.
"Two. I'm sorry... Three. I'm sorry."
The alpha delivered another swat. The pale skin of Remi’s ass was turning red and small welts raised where the belt had made contact. Dimitrios wasn’t using full-armed swings, he was hitting just enough to sting and leave a lasting redness and tenderness.