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gulped at him and the diminishing waves of pleasure crashed through every inch of his body.
    He remained tense, breathing heavily through clenched teeth, noticing in an entirely non sequitur fashion that the windows were open, as usual. It was a good thing they'd deliberately bought a house in the country with some acreage, although he'd whispered in her ear at the time that it was so no one would hear her scream, and yet here she'd reduced him to a mindless blob in a matter of an embarrassingly few short minutes...
    Gain reached down and cradled her head in his big hands, beckoning her to rise and stand against him. Even though it was only a couple of steps to the bed, he picked her up and carried her to it, laying her down on the frilly flowered comforter of the bed they'd left not long ago, then following her down onto it.
    Nina looked up into her husband's eyes that were suddenly very serious. "Do you know how much I love you?" came the unexpected, gravelly question.

Chapter Two

    Nodding, she reached up and laid her small hand against his tanned cheek, looking deeply into those stormy gray eyes as tears filling her own at the depth of feeling that welled inside her for this wonderful man. The words wouldn't come - they were too full of emotion to work themselves out of her tightly constricted throat. They meant too much and were adequate to the task of expressing how she felt about him anyway. Nina didn't feel that there was much of anything she could do or say that would really and truly convey her feelings for her husband, and she knew that he understood that, because it was the same way for him, too.
    So they did their best with the clumsy words humans had for such reverent, colossal, bone deep things, then tried to show each other instead, putting feelings and thoughts and words to deed. And one of the biggest ways that Gain showed her his love was to discipline her when he felt she needed it.
    "And," he whispered gutturally against her hair, "you know that, as wonderful as that was, that it's not going to get you out of your spanking." Gain's voice was naturally so deep that his whispers sounded scary even when he didn't necessarily want them to.
    He felt the shiver run through her body at his words, knowing it was not inspired by a fear of him at all, but rather a few of the punishment itself.
    And she did well to fear it.
    Gain hugged her to him, molding her tightly against his body from shoulder to knee - or as closely as they could get considering the disparity in their sizes - rubbing a big hand over her back. Everything he loved in this world was contained in this five foot four, hundred some odd pound package. She was the best thing that had ever happened to him, and he adored her. He knew he didn't - and truthfully couldn't - say it often enough, but he tried to show her as best her could how he felt about her, and part of that was making sure that he followed through on what he said, whether it was just bringing home a pizza for dinner when he said he was going to, or giving her a paddling when she'd disobeyed him and bought a television that probably cost as much as their first house.
    But he didn't want to. He did, but he didn't. Her punishments weren't play. He didn't give cutesy pats on the bottom when he knew what she needed was to truly regret what she'd done and learn from it. And it wasn't easy.
    Luckily, she was generally very well behaved - not the type to act out due to a lack of attention, because he made sure she got the attention she needed. Heck, she was the only thing in this world he paid attention to other than their company. And if she'd just told him that she really wanted one of these things, they might have worked it out and come to an agreement to buy it. Together.
    But that wasn't the mutual decision they'd made, and the only way she could have paid for the monstrosity in the foyer was if she'd either put it on a credit card or taken the money out of their savings, neither of which