He leaned in the door and kissed her immediately. Daniel whispered in her mouth after their kiss.
"Get your clothes off, Sara." She looked up at him still not quite awake.
"But...it's dinner time..."
He stepped inside the door and closed and locked it behind him.
"I don't care. Get. Your. Clothes off."
Sara inhaled suddenly and started for her bedroom.
"Sara!" She turned suddenly, shocked at his tone. Daniel pointed in the other direction towards the guest bedroom and away from hers.
"Why does it always have to be in that room!? What is wrong with mine!?" as she stomped by.
She flew through the guest bedroom door and slammed it behind her as hard as she could in his face. Without hesitation, he turned the knob and stepped inside and closed it behind him while facing her. He started loosening his tie while eyeing her.
Sara stood on the opposite side of the room staring at him. The silence was so thick you could cut it with a knife. He was looking at her with a deceptive calm that spoke volumes about the trouble she was in. She watched him undo his tie. Next, the cufflinks came off and he was rolling up his sleeves.
"Daniel, I am sorry. I am crabby when I first wake up." He continued rolling up the other sleeve while staring at her. Amusement lit his eyes and she could swear she saw a grin in there if not on his lips.
"It's okay to be crabby, Sara. It's what you do with it that can cause things to go so wrong." Sara felt the sting of tears fill her eyes as she continued to watch him. She knew that he was going to punish her for her outburst. She swallowed the knot in her throat. The whole masculine rolling up the sleeves thing was a warning that work was about to begin. It wasn't something a man did before love making. She was in no mood to suffer pain of any kind upon waking. He continued looking at her as he unbuckled his belt and pulled it through the loops in a calculated but steady manner. He took a couple of steps toward her, lifted a brow and nodded toward the end of the bed for her to bend over. More than anything, Daniel wanted to see if she would obey him. He wasn't mad, but by the same token, he would never tolerate her acting that way either. He watched her carefully as her shoulders wilted forward and she began to cry. She walked to the end of the bed and bent over as he had indicated. When he moved to pull her panties down she reached back to hold them up and said,
"Please." Daniel swatted her hand away and pulled them down anyway.
"Nope. Sara. You are getting a pants down spanking, now stop squirming." She finally stilled and brought her hands up her to mouth. She was in tears before his belt ever came down on her bottom. He gave her five hard strikes with his belt before stopping to talk to her. He placed his hand on her lower back while talking to her.
"I understand that you got upset and crabby but I expect you to control yourself. If you wanted to go to your own room all you had to do was ask me why I wanted you in here and I would have answered you. But because of your tantrum, here we are. It's rather rude and disrespectful to slam the door in my face and I will never stand for that. He struck her once more with the belt.
"Do you understand me?"
"Yes!" she cried out softly. He struck her again.
"Yes, what?" he demanded.
"Yes, Sir." she whispered.
"Okay. We're done."
Sara stood and turned to sit on the bed with her panties still down in case he changed his mind. He got down on his knees in front of her and pulled her panties up over her knees. She lifted herself enough to pull them up and then sunk down to straddle his lap and finish crying in his arms and on his chest. He held her and stroked her hair and whispered to her.
"It's okay, Baby." She seemed so broken hearted and humbled he felt terrible for having spanked her. This lady seemed so broken when he spanked her on both occasions. He had never felt sorry for anyone he had spanked in the past. But Sara gave off a very different vibe than the others had over the years and he had yet to figure it out. As he sat there holding her and caressing her cheeks and hair and rubbing her back, it dawned on him what it was. She was hugging him back and clinging to him. She wasn't mad and pulling away and staying angry. This woman truly had a submissive spirit and a tender heart. And because of this, she deserved every good deed he had done for her and was planning to do for her in the future. And he would start by making dinner because now, he was hungry.
"Hey." He lifted her chin and kissed her nose and forehead and cupped her face in his hands.
"I am starving. I am going to make dinner. Do you want to come keep me company while I cook?"
She smiled and nodded her head. They helped each other up and headed out to the kitchen.
After dinner was done and the kitchen cleaned, they sat out on the balcony. Sara lived on the 20th floor in a corner suite so two of her walls were windows. She had privacy and quiet.
"Sara, we can shop during the week if you like or we can wait until Saturday. In any case I still want you to stay home this week and rest up. You deserve a mini vacation with no worries to heal and rest up."
"Mainly from your spankings." she quietly sniped.
Daniel looked over at her with a slight grin and raised brow. Sara got up and walked over and climbed into his lap and buried her face in his neck. He smelled good and was strong and charming and all of those things he shouldn't have been after spanking the dickens out of her this last few days.
He rubbed her back and shoulders and let his hand settle on her thigh. She studied his well manicured and clean hand, running her fingers over it and intertwining hers with his. He was a very handsome and masculine man. No matter how much she hated being spanked, he turned her on by the fact that he was so powerful when compared to her. He could calmly handle anything she threw at him. For reasons of her own, she valued that. He never started yelling or swinging without good reason and without talking to her. Although it hadn't happened much since they had just met but he gave off a vibe she believed was an accurate measure of who he
was
. He whispered into her hair.
"You know you have control of that, right?"