“You don’t have to do anything with me, I promise.” “This is how it begins. Not with outright defiance, no, but when submission becomes rote, resentment follows, and next thing, I have an uprising on my hands. Do I seem like a woman who would allow that?” She paused his beating. She held her paddle still above him so he could answer. “No, Kimberly, but—” She swatted him in quick succession. “No but?” “No but I would never rise against you or even want to,” Alex said over a torrent of loud spanks. “Please, Kimberly.” “You would never rise up against me?” She delivered another hard volley in rapid succession. “Were you out humping a hoe in front of the neighborhood, in defiance of my decree that you serve a week?” “I was.” Alex sobbed, too resigned to his punishment for even fidgeting.

