“But what if I get thirsty, or need something to eat, or I want a new movie on the DVD pl…”
Connor cut her off. “Jenny, I have already told you…. Repeatedly…. That I am not going to work today. Just let me know if you need something, and I will get it for you, but you are not to get up again unless you need to use the bathroom. I’m not even remotely joking about it. That is the only reason you are allowed to leave this bed. Period. You need REST. I’ve told you that.... Your best friend told you that, and if you can’t believe either of us, your doctor told you that. If I need to blister your ass to get you to listen, I will. I don’t want to, but I will.”
Jenny sighed and grumbled…. Her head hurt, and her insides were a mess. This stomach flu business was a load of BULL. “I’m just tired of being in bed. It’s been four days.”
“I know, Sugardoll… but that is the most comfortable place for you to stretch out and be comfortable. Your body needs rest more than anything, and if you don’t rest, you won’t get well. Here, drink this.” Connor passed her a glass of iced water with a few drops of lemon essential oil in it, and encouraged her to drink it.
“I’m not thirsty,” she began to argue, but at the lifting of his eyebrow and gentle clearing of his throat, she hushed her sassy mouth and sipped the water a couple of times.
“Now, lie down and go to sleep.”
“But…”
“It will be your butt if you don’t hush your mouth and take a nap. I know you’re bored, I know you’re tired of being in bed, and I know you want to do everything the way you normally do, but being sick has shredded your energy.... and your attitude right now is shredding my patience. If you utter another sound... I mean it... one single sound, you will be sleeping on your belly for a week. Am I in any way unclear?”
Jenny shook her head without a sound and flomped over on her pillow, giving him her back. When he had left the room, she dared to raise her arm and give him “the finger”. When she felt his hand firmly grab her wrist, she realized that she merely had thought that he had left the room.
“Get out of that bed. Right now.”
His voice told her immediately that he was not about to brook argument, so she scrambled off the bed…. Too quickly, it would seem, as she got light-headed and her legs went slightly weak. Connor caught her against him, and held her close, and he looked down into her eyes.
“You have stepped so far over the line today that the line isn’t even visible when you look over your shoulder to see if it’s still there. You are too weak for me to make you stand in your corner right now, but you can be damned certain that I will make arrangements for you.”
With that, he picked her up and carried her across the room and plopped her, quite unceremoniously into a small arm chair that he had brought from his study…. It was facing the corner of the master bedroom that was reserved for her precious little nose when she chose to forget that she was a lady.
“I can understand that you get grumpy when you’re sick, and I can understand that being confined to our bed adds to that, but I will not have you continually disobeying me, and I will certainly not have you being just downright rude and disrespectful. I can’t believe you actually just flipped me off. What is wrong with you today?”
Jenny remained silent because he had told her he didn’t want to hear a sound from her, and because she was pretty sure she would just get into more trouble if she spoke at this point.
“Oh…. Now we can hold our tongue? Good… we’re learning. Well, you wanted to be out of bed, so here you are. Out of bed. You have a seat here, and just think about your behavior. You are a grown woman, not a 4 year-old. Please start acting like it. I will be having another conversation with you about this exact moment in a few days. With your paddle. I’m not putting you over my knee when you have been throwing up for 4 days… and I'm not bending you over the bed or sofa for my belt because you can barely stand up. I’m not into torture, and neither are you… but that doesn’t mean you are going to get away with being blatantly disrespectful, and completely disobedient. We’ll start with this corner time, and when your body is well, you’re going to get the spanking you so richly deserve. Don’t you dare move from this spot, and you can keep facing the corner until I come get you.”
Connor walked away for few seconds, and Jenny could hear him rummaging through the desk before he returned. “Here…. This will give you something to do.” He handed her a legal pad and a pen. She saw the first line he had written for her to copy: “I will be obedient and respectful, or I will pay the consequences. My Sir deserves better than this, and so do I.”
Jenny stared at the words on the page for a moment, then swallowed hard before asking, “How many times?”
Connor sighed and shook his head, “Until I say you can stop…. Just … just get busy writing. I’m going to go make some soup for you, and once you’ve had lunch, you will be taking that nap, but right now I am really disappointed with your behavior, and you need to just sit there and copy that line until I feel confident that it has sunk in. Go on… get to work. We will talk about it later.”
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