Back at Casa Caprano. We meet Gladys Murdock and Carmella too.
I changed the Rosso's name to Russo. I apologize for any grammar errors I've made; auto-corrects I've missed; and any continuity breaches you might find. Of course, I'd love if you read the whole series but if you haven't, that's Okay. You'll get it. I'm happy you stopped on this story.
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Five O -pt 2.5
The mood was somber on their way home from The Russo's. Francine was navigating the S.S. Caprano through the neighborhood canals. This barge was a black 2014 Cadillac CTS V. Tony always pointed out he bought it in 2014; he never added that it was a salesman's demo with fifteen thousand miles.
Tony was thinking about the aftertaste of semen in his mouth wondering if it was Louis's or his own. Francine drove in silence. He knew her brooding usually forecast a storm.
'I know it's old and she wants me to sell it.' he thought. 'She wants a new Mercedes or a Beemer, of course. In its day this baby was the most powerful production sedan made. Including both those Euros. The trunk's big enough to haul a baby elephant and it still has good giddy-up.'
Tony loved his Caddy. 2014 was the last year for this model. It had a 6 liter V-8 putting out 550 HP. He knew better than to get it in red with a the manual transmission would have been pushing it. It was a late mid-life crisis car for Tony when he bought it and now, while he might not think of it this way, It was a bastion to his eroding masculinity, a rolling man-cave.
"Fran?" no answer. Fran? A little louder; still no answer.
"Francine?"
"WHAT?"
"Think we should trade the mini-van in for something you'd enjoy driving more?"
"And why would we do that, Anthony? You know I don't like driving this thing. We should trade this behemoth in for that car I've wanted?"
"Never mind, Hun."
While Tony thought about his car Francine thought about The Caprano Way and where it all started. It was in the first year of her marriage when Tony's mother, Angelina taught her about Maternal Discipline.
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It all began the first time she had taken her husband to his mother's house after another of his contrary fits. It was at Angelina's advice after Francine called her in tears about Anthony's tantrums.
"I don't know what to do, Angelina. He won't do anything I ask and I'f I call him on it he flies off the handle. It's awful. Sometimes I think he's acting like this just to make me mad."
"I know exactly what the problem is. You bring him right over to me the next time this happens." Angelina had told her. And that is what Francine did.
As soon as they had entered the front door on that fitful day Angelina took her son by the ear and led him into the living room.
"Strip." was all she said. And strip he did. No hesitance. No protest. He just hung his head and undressed. Francine had seen her husband naked many times but something about this setting with him contritely removing all his clothes at his mother's command, and in front of the two of them was unusually potent. As he removed his clothing he folded it neatly and put it aside.
Angelina told Francine, "The only way to turn a good husband into a great one is to strip him bare and spank him on his bare behind when he acts like that. But spank him till he cries and not wet eyes or alligator tears. I'm talking about all out balling. And when you think he's had enough that's when you give him ten more. Make him count them out load, and say he's sorry after each wack. This is something he has to remember."
When he was naked Angelina had him bring over the sturdy armless side-chair that sat against the wall. This chair never seemed to her to have any significant purpose in the room other than another decoration in the old Italian woman's interior design scheme, but now it was like a Disney character with a knowing smirk. She sat down and beckoned her son over her lap.
"You knew it would eventually come to this didn't you, Antonio? It's time for Francine to learn about the Caprano Way. You see, dear the Caprano wives have a strict code of obedience which we expect our husbands to follow. Grandmother Caprano spanked her boys from when they were tots until they grew up and got married. Then she taught us how to take over.
Francine wondered about Silvio the youngest brother who never married.
She didn't say anything and watched her mother-in-law pat Anthony's naked behind.
"She taught each of her daughters and every new wife the Caprano Code. And now I'm entrusted with that responsibility."
Francine was delighted to see her disobedient husband in this humiliating position, naked over his domineering mother's lap. But in all her frustration and anger with Anthony she didn't understand why his submission to his mother titillated her so. Her nerves were jiggling and her nipples tingling. On some instinctual level, she knew this submission in her man felt heady and right. So right.
'Things are going to be different from now on,' she smirked.
Angelina began spanking Antonio's Bare naked ass cheeks with a steady series of resounding slaps. At first he squirmed and made little noises. Angelina kept it up. Francine couldn't believe how hard and steady she spanked him. He was panting and flinching at each blow. He twisted and sobbed until his mother placed her leg over the backs of his knees and went on with renewed vigor. Antonio flailed and yelped and sobbed.
'Oh dear God, Is this ever going to end?' She was worried he might have a heart attack.
His Mother spanked him until he stopped struggling. When Antonio was slumped over her lap sobbing, reigned into submission the blows continued on. Francine had to place her hand over her mouth to keep from telling her mother-in-law to stop. But as empathetic as she felt for her husband's plight she also felt her panties dampen at this spectacle of dominance over her big strong man. As she watched, Angelina gave him his final ten. Anthony counted out load and apologized after each one. Her husband's bare cheeks went from pink to red to a deeper crimson. Finally, as abruptly as it began, his spanking stopped with no fanfare. She patted him gently and told him to get up.
"Go stand in your corner and think about what you did to upset your wife. And, Antonio, you better hope she won't have to bring you back here to me." She nodded at Francine then said, "Except for a tune-up from time to time."
As Tony's sniffles subsided so did the rush Francine was experiencing. She mouthed a silent 'Wow' to the grinning Angelina. This Caprano Way was a tradition she would honor and carry forward.
"What happened to Silvio," Francine asked.