Fuck.
I had only meant to be playful. Everything about his twinkling gaze had told me that he was enjoying it and I should have noticed the dark glint in his eyes the moment I sassed him back, but it wasn't till much later that he walked over to me while I was sitting by the fire with a long thin branch in his hand.
He hadn't been gathering wood. He'd been cutting a switch.
For me.
He'd threatened punishing me with one years ago, but I'd been afraid, and he hadn't pushed the issue. Now though, he knew a great deal more about me than he had back then.
"Later tonight, you and I are going to take a walk together," he growled softly under his breath so no one else could hear. My eyes glued to the switch as realization hit me all at once. There was no getting out of it this time.
I was his little omega, and he was my alpha, which meant that sometimes he made choices for me just like this one.
I pouted a little bit, nervously toasting my marshmallow to pass the time while worrying about what was going to happen on that walk. Later that evening, he trimmed it by the table, and I was too nervous to watch, so I went inside. The hours passed and he yawned a few times, making me feel hopeful that maybe he would forget all about it and we'd all go to bed instead.
That didn't happen.
Before I knew it, he'd told me it was time and I pouted a bit more heavily, but it didn't work. I knew that it never did, but I tried anyway. My heart was pounding in my chest, my nerves frayed as we walked down a trail in the woods in the dark. After a few minutes, he stopped, pointed to a tree and I knew the time had come for me to get my very first switching.
I knew it was going to sting a lot.
His hands glided down my body and I sighed. I knew I was safe with him, that he wouldn't truly hurt me, and his touch comforted me. I closed my eyes, reminding myself of everything we'd been through before he turned me around and carefully guided me to press my hands against the tree. My stomach was full of butterflies as he reached around me and unbuttoned my jeans, pushing them down along with my panties. I was too nervous to give my throbbing clit any credence.
That would mean facing that somewhere deep down I was enjoying this.
"You've needed this for a very long time, my little omega."
I didn't want to tell him he was right. I was still nervous and pouty that he was going to use the switch after all. My clit pulsed, forever a traitor to my fear.
His fingers slipped between in my thighs.
"I'm right, aren't I?"
"Yes, alpha," I muttered, moaning a little as he caressed my clit with his deliciously rough fingertips.
"Bend over, omega," he dictated.
My body was already well trained in obedience. There was no thought as I did as he told me. It was the way it was between us. He was my alpha and I was his omega.
He gave me a directive and I obeyed.
My bare bottom clenched as he whipped the switch through the air. It didn't hit me yet, but the terrible swish made me jump anyway. I whimpered when he did it again and bit my lip when he laid it against my bare cheeks.
It was time. He didn't need to tell me. He'd decided I was getting the switch tonight and that was how it would be.
I tensed, my nerves spiraling out of control.
When the switch thrashed my bare ass for the first time, it took my breath away. It hurt just as much as I thought it would, more than that really. The second came so quickly that I couldn't recover, and I cried out.
Oh fuck. This hurt.
He whipped me hard and fast. There was no keeping count of how many times the switch burned into my naked flesh. Just when I was starting to panic that he intended to actually punish me, he pulled it away and his fingers dove in between my thighs.
"Oh, my little omega, you're even wetter than I thought you'd be," he said huskily, and I couldn't stop my hips from grinding a little on his fingers.
"Please, alpha," I begged.
"You were pouty about your switching with me, little omega, but look at how needy you are," he growled.