Lucas had finally gotten his way. Josephine tugged her arms but still couldn’t move. The ropes he’d bound around her wrists and secured to the bedposts kept her from escaping him, not that she would want to. She needed this as much as he did.

 

“So, again I’ll ask you, did you or did you not promise me that you would be home before midnight last night?” The dark voice behind coming from behind her should probably have terrified her.

 

After all, she was naked, lying face down on their bed and bound, spread open for him. And if the sound she’d heard was correct, he was holding a belt in his hand.

 

“I did.” She nodded and looked over her shoulder at him, giving him a wink. “But Cherry wanted another drink, and I was the designated driver. You know, because I still can’t drink.” She didn’t even try to hide the pout about that. Breastfeeding their little girl meant she had to stay away from alcohol, and Lucas was still convinced she couldn’t have caffeine, so that was out, too.

 

“I’m not talking about Cherry. I’m sure her ass is tender already. She’s not supposed to be out drinking like that, and you knew it, too. I’m not sure you two are good influences on each other.” She’d heard Cutter say the same thing a few times, and both Cherry and she had a good laugh over it. They’d gotten quite close as the months passed. Now that Cherry was married to Cutter and Josephine had finally toted herself down the aisle with Lucas, the two couples spent a lot of time together.

 

“Pfft,” Josephine scoffed.

 

He tapped the folded leather against her bare bottom. It wouldn’t be the first spanking she’d gotten, but it would be the first time she was bound and couldn’t scoot away. He wouldn’t hurt her, and she wasn’t in any trouble, not really. This was play, his way of getting her hot and gooey before he sank into her. He’d get the fire burning out of control before he would put it out the way only he could.

 

“Nothing you want to say, bad girl?” he asked with that tone of his that sent shivers through her body.

 

“I should have called. I’m sorry. But you said Bridgette was sleeping when I called at eleven, so I didn’t want to wake her up.” Their baby girl had just started sleeping through the night. And she knew better than to wake a sleeping baby.

 

“Uh, huh.” She could hear the chuckle in his voice when she wiggled her butt.

 

The belt came down hard on her cheeks. A warmth spread through her just as the second strike hit, then the third. By the fourth, she was done with the leather and wanted the flesh.

 

He must have thought the same. The belt fell to the floor, and she heard him chucking his clothes off. She expected him to untie her, to flip her over to her back, but he apparently had other ideas.

 

He climbed on the bed, spreading her legs and pulling her hips up so her ass was in the air for him. “Fuck, your pussy is so fucking wet.” He slid one finger through her folds, teasing her clit and making her moan. “Such a little horny girl you’ve become, Josephine.” He adjusted his positioning and used the head of his cock to toy with her. “Tell me you want me. Tell me you want this.”

 

“Fuck me, Lucas. Fuck me hard.” She didn’t need to play a role for him. It’s exactly what she wanted from him at that moment.

 

“Anything for you.” He gripped her hips and drove into her with one quick motion. She cried out from the sudden fullness, but her mind was quickly filled with nothing but lust and pleasure as he continued to thrust into her.

 

While one hand gripped her hip, the other wrapped around her, playing, teasing, and pinching her clit. Quickly, she was at the edge, teetering on the cliff of heaven.

 

“Fuck. Lucas.” She moaned into the pillow, pulling on her restraints. He plowed into her harder, the sound of their flesh slapping against each other filling the room.

 

“Now, Josephine.” He gave her hip a slap, and within two more strokes, they both fell over the cliff together.

 

After their breathing normalized, and they started to relax, he untied her and took care to check her wrists and backside. “Maybe someday I’ll be able to give you a few more lashes before I have to dive into you.” He laughed as they settled on the bed, snuggling into one another.

 

“No, I think that was the right amount.” She feigned injury and rubbed her bottom.

 

“Uh, huh.” He sighed. “We should get up soon. Your mom will be here in an hour. And Bridgette isn’t going to nap forever.”

 

“No, she won’t.” Josephine sighed. “Dad said he’s bringing lunch with them. He’s worried Mom’s been doing too much lately, so he’s swinging by to get some sandwiches on the way.”

 

Lucas kissed her head and held her tighter. “The doctors seemed pretty hopeful last time you went with her, right?”

 

“Yeah. They said the tumor’s gone. Between the treatments and the surgery, it’s gone. He’s just overprotective, like someone else I know.” She pinched his stomach and leapt up from the bed. “I need a shower.”

 

“Cutter is coming with Cherry, too.” Lucas rolled out of bed. They both heard the baby cry at the same time. “I’ll get her. You go shower.”

 

“When’s the vote?” Josephine asked as she walked to the bathroom.

 

“Tomorrow.”

 

“You worried?”

 

“Nope. Cutter will make a great president, and your Dad getting patched-in won’t be an issue, not after he saved you and Cherry.”

 

“He won’t tell me about what he did with the Iron Rebels.”

 

“Good.” Lucas pulled a t-shirt over his head. “It’s none of your business, and he shouldn’t have to relive that shit. That was a different life.” He yanked on his pants and opened the door, the crying getting louder as he did. “Get in the shower, and I’ll get Bridgette.”

 

She watched him leave, then heard him start talking to their daughter. With a soft voice, he soothed her, even made her laugh. He was right, all that happened before. This was a different life, and it was this one that mattered.

 

In this life, she had her father back, her mother was healing and on her way to a full recovery, her daughter was safe, and her husband would see to it that they always stayed that way.

 

She turned the shower on and stepped under the water. Who knew getting a coffee in a hospital could lead to the treasure that she’d found? It didn’t matter. She would forget the past, just like Lucas said. That was a different life.

 

And she had a whole new one, a better one, to live now.

 

THE END

 

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