by Jaye Peaches
Ridley turned to her husband. “Blake, do you have any plans to divorce Lysa at the end of your contract?”
“None, absolutely not. I love her,” Blake snatched her hand in his, sandwiching it between his own. She heard his rapid breathing. Why was Ridley asking the question?
“Good. I wanted to make sure before I told you this—the Corporation has agreed to revoke Lysa’s status as a Corporate wife. Your marriage will be recognised as civic, not corporate, and the Corporation has no right to discipline your wife without your permission, Blake.”
Lysa gasped, pressing her hand to her mouth. “What does this mean?”
“I assume you don’t wish to divorce Blake? No, I didn’t think so,” he said as she shook her head vigorously. “As a couple married under civic rules you would, back on Earth, have entitlements and benefits, and these would be extended to your time on Callisto. When a miner elects to stay married to his Corporate wife, these entitlements would begin once the contract has finished and you return to Earth, however, in your case, they start immediately. You’re a lifer now, Lysa, you don’t have to wait for the contract to finish. Congratulations.”
Ignoring the beaming Ridley, Blake swept her into his arms and spun her around in a circle. “No-one can touch you, whoever the new constable is, he can’t take you into the punishment block even in my absence. You’re free of the Corporation.” He put her down.
She hoped it was the beginning and not the end of things. “Not free to be an engineer though. Not while all women, regardless of marital status, are oppressed. Are you married, sir?” she asked Ridley.
“Yes. My wife chose to stay on Earth to bring up our sons. I miss her very much.” The corners of his mouth drooped.
“Why did you come here?”
“The same reason as you, I think. You see, my brother worked on Europa and he never came back.” Ridley looked down at his hands.
Lysa understood. They’d both lost people close to them.
Ripley shook their hands in turn. “You can’t keep a head strong woman down, can you, Blake?”
Blake grinned. “I can try, but I don’t think my techniques will always work.”
Lysa could sense her cheeks flush with hot blood and she smiled coyly at her husband, knowing she was forever his.
Epilogue
Lysa yelled across the field to Blake. He whistled and waved back. The last of his small flock of sheep disappeared up the hillside to fresh pastures.
She watched as he ambled down the slope and admired his amazing physique. He remained the fit and healthy man she’d married two years previously.
She glowed in the warm spring air and patted her swollen belly, soon, in a few more weeks, she hoped she’d feel the baby inside her move.
Four months earlier, back on Colony 14, Blake had hit the jackpot. He’d found a band of rare minerals at the end of an abandoned tunnel. The piece of asteroid embedded in the rock face contained a wealth of precious metals. Why they’d been missed, he didn’t know or care. They were his find and he had received the massive pay-out for identifying the seam.
The celebrations had gone long into the night, as Lysa and Blake had mapped out their future.
Returning to Earth, he’d bought his parcel of land and sufficient sheep to begin farming wool. With the contraceptive implant removed, Lysa had quickly fallen pregnant, much to her surprise.
Blake approached, put a hand on her tummy and stroked it. “So, Mrs Engineer, have you managed to get the air conditioning working, and the solar panels?”
“Yes, Mr Farmer,” she grinned. She flicked a blade of grass off his sleeve. “And, I’ve heard from Ursula. She and some of her friends are gathering for a meeting to discuss how to go forward with setting up a college.”
“A secret college?” Blake frowned. “I’m not happy about this, Lysa.”
“I promise… well, I’ll try to not get too involved.” She looped her arms around his neck.
Blake snorted. “Somehow I don’t see you staying on the side-lines.”
She rocked onto her tiptoes, gliding up his chest until her lips were level with his mouth. “Of course, I shall be good. Most of the time and if I’m not…” The wind caught her hair, blowing it about her cheeks.
Blake tucked the loose stands behind her ear. “I shall deal with it as I see fit, though… given you’re condition, I might have to hold back for a while.”
“I won’t be pregnant forever.” She licked her tongue around her lips, moistening them.
Blake lowered his mouth, ready to kiss her puckered lips. “Good thing I brought the precious wooden paddle back from the colony. Married to you, somehow I think I might need it.”
The End
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There is nothing quite like a man in uniform—at least as far as nineteen-year-old Alice Aubrey is concerned—and when Colonel Edmund Seymour’s regiment arrives in town she is ecstatic. But a bout of youthful exuberance results in her wandering through the streets unchaperoned with a junior officer, inebriated and causing a general commotion, and it isn’
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Alice wisely accepts, but only a day after the wedding her sharp-tongued defiance rears its head as she tours her new home. To her shock and horror, Edmund leads her to a private spot in the gardens, bares her bottom, and spanks her soundly until she is sobbing and repentant. Worse yet, she is made to finish the tour of the estate with her bottom sore and her cheeks blushing. In spite of her shame, his stern chastisement awakens something in her, and when he takes her long and hard that night it satisfies her more than she ever imagined possible.
As the months pass, Alice learns—often with the help of Edmund’s firm discipline—how to be a respectful, modest wife in public even while enjoying the most scandalous pleasures with her husband in the bedroom. But when Edmund grants her wish to throw a ball, will people see that the silly, frivolous girl they remember is now a lady worthy of their respect?
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Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Epilogue
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