The Boxing Day walk had been an excuse to extract Emily from the ancestral pile, before her graceless behaviour and cutting remarks placed any further demands on the seasonal goodwill of kith and kin. Now, as she trudged ahead, up through the bare wood of tortured hornbeam coppice and straight thick sessile oak, her rubber wellingtons pulling against the deep cloying mud, I found myself contemplating those fleshy mounds encased beneath the taught blue denim, and wondering if perhaps there might be no more propitious occasion to take my wilful new wife in hand.
Out of the corner of my eye I caught sight of a slight, alert form watching us intently through the trees. "Emily," I said keeping my voice low, "look a muntjac."
"I couldn't give a flying fuck if it was an Irish Elk" she snapped, causing the deer to skitter off into the wood. "My toes are frozen, I'm splattered with mud, and you know what.?" she snarled, turning to face me, "I don't believe you know where we're going. We're lost aren't we?"
"No", I answered through teeth a dentist could have taken an impression of, "the road is just over the rise."
"Whatever, let's just get back to the Addams family."
"Emily that's enough! Come here".
She stood rooted, the defiant cast of her mouth betrayed by an uncertainty in those green flecked hazel eyes beneath the thick spectacles. In her bobble hat with the auburn curls peeking out she looked adorable, and for a moment I thought I might relent.
"You can fuck off," she snarled, turning away from me with such a ludicrously exaggerated throwing back of the shoulders and toss of the head that it could only be described as a flounce.
I swiftly closed the few steps between us and grabbed her hand in mine. She pulled away from me, but without real strength of purpose.
I had seen what I needed, a large windfallen bough. I dragged her across to where it lay, and seating myself, pulled her firmly down over my lap. Grasping her right wrist in my left hand I pulled it up behind her back. She gasped, and I loosened the half nelson a little, but keeping the hold tight enough to give me control should she struggle.
I whispered a silent prayer that what I was about to do would turn out for the best, and raising my right hand, brought it down upon the bedenimed butt.
"Ow," she complained outraged as I brought the hand down again, "You can't do this."
"Oh yes I can young lady," I responded with rather more confidence than I felt, aiming another swat at the wriggling rear.
"It's not fair," she spat, and I tightened my hold a little to still her writhing.
"I'll tell you what is not fair..." and, as I continued to lay down a slow but steady barrage of swats, I enumerated her tantrums and bad manners over the season of goodwill and all the many ways in which she had caused me to squirm in embarrassment.
As I fell into a comfortable rhythm, being careful to pay equal attention to each ample globe, she ceased to squirm under the rise and fall of my palm, and began to whimper softly. I swallowed hard, but did no desist immediately, forcing myself to finish what I had started. My cock had begun hardening as soon as I landed the first blow and was now rigid in my pants. As my sobbing wife lay draped across my thighs she could not but be aware of the throbbing phallus as it pressed against her.
We both, I felt, had had enough, and letting go my grip I gently raised her limp body. Cradling her with my right arm, I hooked her under the knees with my left, and sat her up upon my lap.
The freckled cheeks were streaked with tears, and a little snot dribbled from her nose. I traced the line of of a tear with my finger and on reaching her chin lifted it so she was looking me in the eyes. "I am sorry I had to hurt you," I said, my engorged cock giving the lie to the words.
"It's not that," she sniffed, and then it all came tumbling out, how she did not mean to behave as she did, and how she knew she was hurting me but could not stop herself. When I could bear to hear no more I silenced her mouth with mine, and drank deep of her kisses as our tongues wrestled with an urgency I had never felt from her before.
Encouraged by the ardour of her response, I took her firmly by the shoulders and gently pushed her away from me. "I am not done with you yet. That was just a taste of what you can expect should you misbehave in future. " She looked at me questioningly, and I felt my cock jump as she gulped at the resolution in my eyes. "Stand up Emily. Now unfasten your belt. Undo the button on your jeans. Now the zip." I pulled the jeans down roughly around her knees, and laid her once more across my lap. Hooking my thumbs in the elastic of her panties I eased them slowly over the ripe spheres; I was pleased to see the pale flesh already glowing warmly. It would be getting much hotter yet.
I traced a finger over each globe. When Emily tried on clothes she would ask did her arse look big; the truthful answer would have been, God, yes. And now those magnificent cushions had been yielded completely to my mercy. I found myself lost in contemplation of their glory as I stroked and fondled them. The fleshy outer lips of her labia were exposed and moisture glistened within. The temptation to dip my fingers into that pot of honey was almost beyond bearing, but my wife's pleasure would have to wait. Her lesson was not yet complete.
"I am going to give you two dozen strokes. I want you to count off the blows, and after each of them to say 'thank you'. Is that understood?"
"Yes sir."
I raised my hand above my shoulder. Could I really bring myself to do this? If ever a bum was made to be spanked it was before me now. I brought my palm crashing down on her right cheek with a smack that echoed through the forest. I swear the birds stopped singing.
"Aaagh!" Emily's gasp stifled the scream as the breath left her body.
"Count off the strokes, please".
"One".
I gave her bottom a short tap. "Manners."
"Thank you".
"You're welcome". I lifted my hand again, this time aiming for the left nate.