Setting down her drink, Sarah turned her attention away from her co-workers and glanced at her watch. As the position of the watch's hands came into view, she immediately felt a sinking feeling in the pit of her stomach.
"Shit! I've got to go."
Snatching her purse, Sarah paid her tab and said a quick goodbye to her friends as she headed home. It was half past six o'clock and she was supposed to meet her husband for dinner at six. "This is bad," she thought.
With hopes of mitigating the spanking that was sure to come, she drove as quickly as possible without breaking the speed limit. As her nerves began to sink in their claws, she started to speed. Speeding down the interstate, she had a moment to think and to begin justifying her actions.
"I'm only doing it this one time to mitigate what I've done, really I'm just making things better."
"It's a silly rule anyway, everyone speeds. Why shouldn't I be allowed to speed?"
"I just won't tell him, he'll never know and it's only this one time."
Sarah pulled her car into the parking lot and found a spot near the back. She took a moment to fix her make-up and hair, hoping that looking as cute as possible might awaken some deeply hidden since of mercy.
"Sarah, you're 45 minutes late," John exclaimed as Sarah walked towards his position on the patio of the restaurant.
"Sorry, traffic was terrible."
"Was it now?" John said, he could smell the hint of alcohol on her breath. He knew she wasn't drunk, but it was very clear that those after-work drinks with her friends had lasted longer than they should have.
Getting a firm grip on her forearm, he pulled her close and hugging her. To any onlooker, it would look like two lovers sharing an intimate, but innocent moment. Sarah, however, hasn't nearly so lucky as those on-lookers would have believed. Her ears heard words whispered that only she could hear, "I know why you're late. We're going to have a nice dinner and then you're getting the spanking you deserve when we get home."
Cringing slightly at the thought, she sat down and thought how impossible that simple action was going to be in a few hours.
Dinner passed uneventfully as the Sarah and John made small talk. The waiter might have noticed Sarah was a little more somber than his other patrons, but made no mention of it.
Arriving at home, John held the door open for his lovely wife. For Sarah, hearing the front door shut behind her was like the sound of entering a different world. Time slowed down, nerves took over and she knew what was about to happen.
"Sarah, get your bottom into that bathroom right now and get ready for your spanking. I expect you to be nude and have your nose in the corner when I come back down stairs."
Sarah dutifully did as she was told, carefully removing her blouse and skirt before folding them and laying them over the arm of the sofa in their den. She paused momentarily before removing her panties and bra and similarly folding them. Walking over to the corner, she stood as instructed while shifting her weight from foot to foot in anticipation.
It seemed like an eternity as she stared at the bare white patch of wall in front of her. After what seemed like hours, she heard a voice behind her "Come over here."
Turning around, she saw her husband sitting on a straight-backed wooden chair from their dining room. Across his lap was what they had dubbed 'the big paddle.' The big paddle had started life as a razor strop, but together they had shortened it and attached a wooden handle. It was the most severe implement in their collection and it was only brought out for serious punishments.
Sarah stood nude in front of her husband, hands behind her back as he began.
"Do you know why you're being spanked."
"Yes sir, because I was late."
"That's one of the reasons you're being spanked, do you know the rest?"