by Maggie Ryan
“Emmie, your Papa tells me that I might offer you a birthday present as well. Would you like to visit Hunter’s Ridge next weekend?” Lucas asked. Lucy squealed with pleasure and Emmie slid off her Papa’s lap and ran to hug Lucas.
“Oh yes,” Emmie said, and then quickly amended her statement. “I mean yes, Sir, if my Papa allows.” Stefan laughed as she returned to his lap.
“I’ve already agreed, Emmie,” Stefan assured her. “If you manage to behave this week, I think it would be lovely to spend the weekend.”
“May we ride, Papa? Lucy said there are lots of horses,” Emmie squealed, almost quivering with excitement.
“Yes, Emmie, we may ride as long as Lord Huntington agrees,” Stefan said, and then chuckled. “I do suggest that you be a very good girl next week and allow your little bottom time to heal. I promise, sitting in a saddle with a sore bottom tends to take a great deal of the joy from the ride, and remember, you are to obey Uncle Lucas or find yourself across his knees if I am not available.”
“Papa!” Emmie said, and then giggled as she realized their friendship had just moved to a different level, one she accepted completely. “I promise to be good, Uncle Lucas.” Lucy was giggling herself, imagining her friend over her Papa’s knees.
Lucas grinned and patted her bottom, telling her that her own bottom could expect the same if Uncle Stefan found cause to lift her skirts.
“Yes, Papa,” Lucy said with a smile, before giggling again and adding her own confirmation that sitting in a saddle upon an already-tender bottom was quite unpleasant. “You’ll love my sisters,” Lucy assured Emmie. “They know I’m Papa’s little girl, so they won’t tease you at all.” Lucas didn’t say anything, but was pleased to hear her speak so sweetly about his sisters.
As they drove home, Lucy smiled up from where she was seated on Lucas’ lap. “Thank you, Papa. It was a wonderful day,” she said sweetly, and didn’t seem to realize tears were sliding down her cheeks until he brushed them away with his thumbs.
“Don’t cry, Kitten,” he said, thinking she might be upset over the warning he’d given her. “I’m sure my Kitten will be a good girl so that Uncle Stefan doesn’t have to spank her bottom.” He was relieved when she giggled.
“It’s not that, Papa. I know Uncle Stefan won’t spank me unless I’m really naughty. I’m just so happy. Not only have I got you to love me, I have Nanny Molly, a new home, new sisters and a new friend and a new uncle. I am the luckiest little girl in the whole world.” Lucy felt a sense of great peace fill her. No matter what the coming years would bring, she no longer missed Louisa quite as much. For the first time, she was positive that she was where she belonged, that her new home was indeed at Hunter’s Ridge.
By the time the carriage was pulling into the drive, Lucy was sound asleep, her head resting against her Papa’s chest. He climbed from the carriage, took her into his arms, and carried her up to his room. As he gently undressed her and slid into the bed beside her, he remembered her earlier words. Lucy might feel she was the luckiest girl in the world but he knew without a doubt that he was the most blessed man in the universe.
EPILOGUE
Emmie’s visit to Hunter’s Ridge was a success. On their second day of riding, Lucy and she had collapsed into giggles, both rubbing their backsides when their Papas lifted them from their horses. Both had rather tender bottoms after being caught playing on the floor of Lucy’s nursery instead of taking their naps. Though both girls had initially been embarrassed as their Papas pulled them across their laps, pushing their gowns up and their diapers down, spanking them at the same time until both were sobbing and very contrite, each accepted her discipline, as well as her Papa's right to administer it.
Despite that one incident, Emmie had loved the weekend. She instantly found new friends in Lucy’s sisters; their evenings spent playing games with each other and their Papas.
***
A few weeks later, Lucy opened a letter and squealed with delight. Louisa wrote that she and Edward would be arriving within a few weeks to spend a month at Hunter’s Ridge during the upcoming holidays. Lucas was pleased as well and announced that he would hold a reception. He told Lucy he would also invite Lord Northbridge and Emmie, making her smile even more. Lucy couldn’t wait to introduce Louisa to her new sisters and her new friend. Though they often exchanged letters, actually being able to sit and talk, to giggle and share their stories would be a wonderful way to begin the holiday season. She thanked her husband and he smiled, happier than he had ever imagined he could be, knowing that Lucy was the only present he would ever need.
THE END
A note to my readers:
As always, I sincerely thank you for buying my book. I hope you have enjoyed the continuation of Lucy’s story as she follows her husband to his home and discovers how much she would come to love Hunter’s Ridge. I promise that I haven’t forgotten Louisa. Discover how Louisa’s life continues with her own Papa in the upcoming sequel. Emmie and Lord Northbridge will join in the festivities of the holidays as well. Will Frannie find the man she desires? Ettie reaches her majority, but is Lucas truly prepared to undergo her Opening Season? It is my greatest hope that you are as anxious as I to discover the answers and to continue reading about the characters that I’ve come to love. Thank you for joining me on their journeys; I look forward to continuing to bring them to life for you.
Happy reading –
Maggie Ryan
Maggie Ryan
“Author for Blushing Books. I write both contemporary erotica and historical spanking romances. I enjoy writing about characters that enjoy the provocative D/S lifestyle of today’s times as well as taking a step back into the past to write stories that take place in the Victorian era with age-play as a theme.
I live in the great Lone Star state with my wonderful husband. I have always loved reading. Growing up in a family with four children, it was difficult finding a place to be alone. I was probably one of the squeakiest clean girls on the planet as I would spend hours in the tub so I could read without being bothered. It wasn’t long before I began to make up my own endings to the books I was reading. From there, it just seemed natural to begin writing my own stories.
I never try to restrict myself to any one genre because there are just too many delicious possibilities out there and inside my head. I admit to being somewhat of a romantic though as my stories always must have a great deal of love, passion, corporal discipline and, of course, great, mind-blowing sex. I want my readers to be able to see, hear, feel and know the characters that I’m creating as well as I do when I bring them to life and transfer their stories to paper. I want my women to be strong of character but also strong enough to know that submission given in love and trust to your partner does not make you weaker, it makes you far stronger. I want my men to be sexy, strong, demanding alpha males who know how to take what they want while acknowledging it is a gift they have been blessed with by the women that have chosen to submit to them. I want there to be no doubt that they truly would die for the other no matter how others might view their relationship.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
A note to my readers
Maggie Ryan
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