Alice yelps like a child. “It is not my fault I feel this way!”
“So it’s mine? Get a hold of your insecurities woman, I won’t stand for it.”
“Erien…” Tears flow down her face. I am tempted to kiss them away though I hate the saltiness of them. We’ve never argued like this since we moved into the manse. Of course, it has been brewing over the months but I didn’t expect it to come to light so soon. Loving someone for life is proving to have its own challenges even if I still feel the same way about her.
“I feel lost,” Alice confesses at last.
“Why?” My voice is quiet this time.
“I just haven’t been feeling myself lately.”
I stare at her belly. It is still flat. Maybe if I plant my seed in her she will be happier. If only she wasn’t such a stubborn woman.
Chapter 24
Alice
The way Erien looks at me gives me Goose Pimples. I know he wants me. If only I can get over myself and give him what he wants. But what about me? Who will give me what I want? I don’t even know what I want. In the beginning, I thought I wanted riches, a comfortable place, and the man of my dreams. I have them all and yet I still feel lost.
“Tell me what is bothering you.” I can see the pain in Erien’s eyes.
“I don’t want to talk about it.”
I don’t know how to explain myself to him. He wouldn’t understand. This makes him angry. He doesn’t like to be rebuffed. I want him, but more, I want myself. I have lost myself. I pout.
Erien gets up from the bed and towers over me. His jaw is clenched.
“If you don’t tell me what you want, I will leave you!”
I shudder. I want to be alone but I don’t want him to leave me. I didn’t know I could be so complicated. I open my mouth and pour out my emotions to him. I don’t want him to leave me.
“I want to work, Erien!”
He blinks slowly. It is the most absurd thing he has ever heard in his life.
“You do work. You work to please me!” he says.
I am shocked. “I am my own woman. I am not here for you.”
“Then why the hell do you have my ring on your finger?”
I twist the diamond ring on my finger in reflex. Erien can be so stubborn when he means to be. His silver eyes are ablaze with emotion. Even his hair seems to straighten from the anger pumping through his veins. I shudder even though there is little fear in me. I know Erien can’t hurt me. I am only telling him the truth and the truth hurts. I am not his woman. I am with him by choice and he should know the difference.
“So what? I wear your ring. I am sure you just stole it from some store!” I yell even if I did not mean to.
In a swift movement, Erien grabs my hand. Before I can react, he takes the engagement ring off my finger and tosses it to the far end of the room. I gasp in shock. I did not expect him to react this way. He strides out of the room with his long muscular legs. My breath escapes my throat. He has never walked out on me before. A fear I hadn’t known was there seizes my bones. What if he walks out on me for good? After all, there are dozens of beautiful women out that door who are dying to be in my place. How can I be such a fool? He is the one giving up everything to be with me, and not the other way round. He is the one who is heir to a throne, the one who has lived in lavish wealth, and the one who has a family. He is the one who is lost, not me.
“Erien!” My feet rush after him.
He is still walking away from me. I have to sprint across the room to reach him even though he is simply walking. I grab his muscular arms and bid him turn around. He flinches at my touch but I kneel in front of him before he can reject me. I have been rejected too many times in my life and I’d be a darn fool if I let him out of my sight.
“Forgive me,” I plead with my head bowed.
“Forgive you for what, for not wanting me?”
His eyebrows knit together. I stare up at him. Goodness, how can a man be so gorgeous? His long eyelashes hood his eyes, and his long hair accentuates his strong jaw. It is as if he is a god and I am the sinful woman at his knees. I hope he forgives me.
“I want you Erien. More than ever.” It is true. My heart is racing for him. I want him inside me. He makes me feel whole. It is him I have been missing because he is always busy with his new friends, and I am left alone to overthink. It is his fault I am like this.
“You rejected me a minute ago. You said you are not mine. Well, if you aren’t my woman, I won’t have you,” he says.
He makes to walk away from me but I stay his hand. “I am your woman. I have been foolish, please. I am just jealous you don’t spend time with me like you used to. Don’t take my words to heart, please.”
I plead with my eyes. I notice he has a weakness for the blueness of my gaze. I notice his shoulders relax. He is no longer uptight. I only just realize I was holding my breath. He won’t leave me now. I know he won’t.
“Prove it,” he says icily. I nod my head, eager to please him.
“I’ll do anything you want.”
He thinks what to do with me and easily makes up his mind. He clicks his fingers. “You will be punished.”
I swallow hard. I don’t know what he means to do with me. It makes me nervous. He sees this and grins widely. He likes to make me panic sometimes. I wait for him to proclaim his sentence, holding my breath once again.
“Since you noticed your mistake early, I will let you choose… You will be spanked unless you find your ring in the next ten minutes.”
I feel relief wash over me. He is being so kind to me. I vaguely saw the direction the ring fell so it shouldn’t be too hard to find. My time is ticking so I get on all fours to look for the ring. In his mercy, Erien turns on the night lights. My eyesight is adjusted to the dark and yet the ring seems to have disappeared.
Erien paces behind me as he watches me search. Tired of pacing after a few minutes, he sits on the bed and keeps darting his gaze at the clock on the bed stand. Five minutes later and all signs are that I will not find the ring. It is gone. I am more fearful of losing my engagement than the punishment that awaits me.
I have been too engrossed in my search to notice that Erien has taken off his clothes. He sits at the edge of the bed and stretches one leg in front on him like a predator on the prowl. He is completely nude save for the tie that seemed to have materialized out of nowhere around his neck
Ten minutes is up and I have not found the ring. My punishment waits.
Chapter 25
Erien
I knew she wouldn’t find the ring. Alice is looking in all the wrong places. I knew where it is all along. She turns to me, her eyes wide. She will receive her punishment first and then I will tell her that it is stuck in that beautiful auburn hair of hers. She will hate me for a moment but we will laugh about it later. I miss laughing with her. Alice doesn’t laugh much these days. If the fault was with me I would have corrected it, yet it’s not. She is fighting her personal demons and I cannot help her. Maybe I can correct her.
“You haven’t found the ring,” there is accusation in my tone.
She shivers involuntarily. “I… I don’t know where it went.”
“Does it mean you don’t want to marry me?” I raise an eyebrow at her.
“I have wanted to marry you even before I met you.”
There is a small quiver in her voice. I like that. I like when she is a little fearful of me. It keeps her from being too stubborn. I raise my hand and gesture her to undress. She obeys. Her slender features are accentuated under the night light. She is the most beautiful human woman I have laid eyes upon, even if she wouldn’t believe me if I told her. On my home planet, Solasis, there may be a hundred or more who are more beautiful and physically appealing to me but none of them are the queen of my heart. Alice has won that crown from the day I laid my eyes on her. Now, I will lay her body upon my lap and remind her where her place is.
“Do you love me, Alice?” I ask, just to hear her say it.
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“I love you, Erien.”
“Do you trust me, Alice?”
“With my whole being.”
“Will you want to be with me for the rest of my life?”
I watch her narrow her eyes. Is that doubt I see? My heart flutters. What if she says no? Instead, she asks, “Why are you asking me all this?”
“Answer!”
“Yes. I want to be with you for the rest of my life.”
She doesn’t sound too convincing. I hate that. Will she leave me? Is she after gain and not loyalty? Nonsense, I think to myself. Alice would never betray me. My lips move before I know the daunting question I am about to ask.
“Even to Solasis?” I ask.
She blinks. Her answer gets stuck in her throat. I have just asked if she would leave Earth for me. Other women would lie in a heartbeat; however, Alice is not a liar. She will tell me the truth even if it breaks my heart. It took her long enough to answer and so when she opens her mouth to speak, I raise a hand at her for silence.
“Come,” I say. Perhaps I can convince her when I smack that soft bottom of hers. She has been inside her head for too long.
Alice comes obligingly. Her long legs rub against each other as she takes timid steps towards me. I have never smacked her before. She won’t like it at first but she will be begging for more before I am done with her.
I receive Alice in my hands and coerce her to kneel in front of me. My balls throb with desire with her lips so near to my erect shaft and yet I hold back. If I let her please me so easily, she won’t learn her lesson.
“Close your eyes,” I command her.
“If you don’t want me to see just turn off the lights,” she says impatiently.
I knit my eyebrows at her. How can she forget so soon that she is being punished and so she shouldn’t talk back? Now that she’s seen how solid she’s made me, she has her confidence back. I will teach her not to count her chickens too early.
“I will turn off the lights alright, but just for you,” I tease.
Before she can protest, I take the tie from around my neck and tie her mouth with it; she has to shut up for some minutes. Alice grows taut when I seal her mouth. She had expected me to shut her eyes. This will teach her that I am unpredictable.
In a swift movement, I grab her lithe body and place her across my lap. My thick erect appendage sticking into her belly makes her squirm. The softness between her legs is already oozing thick juices in desperation for me to heal that leakage with my stopper. I feel content with myself when I grab her buttocks and smear her juices around her ass and thighs. The wetness between on my fingers gives me a terrible hard on. It is all I can do to go ahead with this punishment. She will not learn if I keep giving her what she wants.
Alice sneaks her hand around so that she can tease my shaft. I hold her hand before she can touch me.
“No. No. Princess, you had your chance. You failed to find your ring so now I will punish you.”
I quickly rip the soft silken bedspread and use it to tie Alice’s hands. This way, she won’t tempt my shaft with those deft fingers of her. After making sure she can’t move her hands, I continue to smooth her juices over her ass, even digging my fingers into both her holes. Her desperation for me is making her body go into a fever.
When I am sure that her buttocks are completely smoothed with her juices, I lay down my first smack. It is a quick slap against her ass cheeks. There is a cracking sound but I know the first one does not hurt. I make sure the slaps that follow hurt enough to leave a red mark on her pale bottoms. Alice is squirming harder so I have to hold her tight. Her buttocks are red from the thrashings, and she clenches them to contain the pain. Tears come to her eyes from the sting. She bites her lips to stop from crying. I almost stop but when I ease the smacks the flesh between her legs loosens in the most alluring way and juices of desire gush out.
I almost lose control. If I allow myself to take her now, I will ride her like a beast. She will be hurt. I have to punish her until she is thoroughly wet so that my throbbing balls won’t rip apart her perfect ass. There is no way her clit will stand the pressure building inside me. Even if it does, her belly may not stay the same. I shouldn’t have brought this folly upon myself. I am too aroused to stop. She too, has climaxed from pain to ecstasy. Her orgasms keep coming in waves, and the last always harder than the former. She is crying now, but it is tears that are begging me to pin her against the wall and push myself inside her until her toes curl and she sees stars.
Hot blood rushes to my shaft. I can explode all over her belly to be done with but then I will be punishing myself too. I have to enter her when she reaches the hinge of pain and pleasure. I continue to smack her behind until it is red and my hand is completely soaked in her juices. She has suffered enough, and I suffer with her.
“Have you learned your lesson?” I ask in a hoarse voice.
She nods vigorously. Her eyes are red from crying, her hair is matted to her fore, drenched in sweat; my sweat and hers too.
“Can I take you?” I ask her to be sure she is ready for the force of my being.
She nods her permission belatedly. I have already tossed her flat onto her back on the bed. In a heartbeat, I spread her legs apart and I am on top of her. Her wet throbbing flesh welcomes me and I thrust with a force stronger than I knew I had. Her muffled cries and the tears in her eyes give me mixed feelings. I need to stop if I am hurting her. It will take all my will to stop but I will force myself to. Thankfully, when I loosen the tie from her mouth, her screams are those of pleasure.
“Yes, yes! Take me Erien. Take me hard! Owww!”
Alice howls, and her breasts bob up and down in agreement. They are perky and red. I want to bend over and bite them but that will ruin the rhythm of my thrust. It is as though my very life depends on me being inside her at that moment. I lunge deeper inside her.
“You like that, don’t you, don’t you?”
We might have woken the whole mansion with our noise but I don’t care. When I feel her heat around my shaft, the only world that exists is me and her.
“YES! YES! Aargh.”
Her muscles tighten over me, she rolls her head back and screams, then she spurts so far out that it sprays onto my face. Her muscles relax but I am still as hard as an iron rod. I have pushed her to climax when I haven’t even reached it yet.
“Who told you to release?” I scold, pulling out of her.
She wipes the sweat from her face. She couldn’t have held it in any longer so now I am the one being punished. My shaft points at her accusingly, and she understands. In a rare obedience, Alice climbs further onto the bed and kneels.
“You haven’t finished punishing me,” she says.
My heart flutters when she grabs her buttocks with both hands to show me her unmolested round hole. A chill takes over my body. My appendage is ready to assault her, however, my mind reckons that I can hurt her.
“Punish me,” Alice insists. “I want it.”
“Do you need a safe word?” I ask. It is something we had agreed upon early in our relationship though it had been forgotten over time.
“You know me, Erien. You will know if I am getting hurt.”
“I will lose control,” I say, certain.
She raises an eyebrow at me, daring me. I brace myself. She has asked for it. I will punish her and she will learn not to ask for any more punishments. At first, I take her very slowly. She grits her teeth as I penetrate her ass.
And like I promised her, it only takes a second before I lose control. And Alice takes her punishment like a queen she deserves to be. By the time I explode inside her, we both see white.
By the time my senses come back to me, I notice that the engagement ring in her hair is gone. Somehow, I know it is lost for good. How can the only thing I possibly ever paid for go missing? I grimace.
Chapter 26
Alice
I have never felt so sore and so good at the same time. It was a wild night. The flame tha
t I’d thought had died is still there after all. After we crawled into bed the previous night, I had dreamed the sweetest dreams. Now the sun has risen to give me a fresh start from the dull days of the past. I reach my hands out to Erien and touch the smoothness of a pillow. My eyes snap open. Was last night all just a dream? No, the soreness in my body tells me it was real, beautiful and real. Then why is it that Erien is not next to me when I awaken? He hadn’t even woken me up with a kiss like he used to.
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