“He wasn’t feeling so well himself. He’d punished his wife for disobedience, which was his husbandly right. However, he’d also punished her because she wanted to be with him, which didn’t seem husbandly, or right, at all. But that wasn’t the most disturbing aspect of this afternoon. The worst thing was that he’d gotten aroused while paddling her, a perverse reaction that troubled him in the extreme. Like any English chap, he loved to spank women in the course of naughty games, but he also had a ...firm grasp of the difference between play and discipline. So why had he gone hard in the midst of paddling Minette, when he only had discipline in mind? Perhaps it was stress, or his recent lack of sexual outlet. He thought for the hundredth time that he must go see Esme, and realized for the hundredth time that he wasn’t going to do it, especially now with Minette in the house. He went to the ballroom instead, where he could pound out his frustrations at the pianoforte. As he crossed the vaulted and echoing space, not a velvet curtain stirred, nor chandelier tinkled.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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