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Little Christmas present, a second chapter this month.

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CONSEQUENCE

"Come here Carry." The man said quietly. The girl obeyed, positioning herself in front of her father's knees.

"Look at me" He waited for the girl to look at him.

"You made a bad choice today, you disobeyed me and Adam and put yourself in danger. I will not tolerate this behavior, I love you too much my dear! "

And there the child was already crying in her father's arms.

"Get it over with Dakota, the longer you wait, the harder it will be for both of you." Ethan thought.

"I want you to calm down Carry."

She was crying so much and he hadn't touched her yet, but eventually her crying died down.

"Come on, let's get it over with!"

Dakota lifted his daughter up and placed her on his knees. He lifted her dress over her head and lowered her panties and stockings, down to her thighs like Ethan had done. Then he raised his hand and lowered it again and again, his spanks were powerful and sonorous. He did not speak, it was not his way as for him everything had already been said and his daughter knew very well why he was administering this spanking.

After eight severe slaps, he hugged his daughter in his lap, as Ethan had done.

Neither one nor the other spoke, these were not their paths.

"Jessie, come here" Ethan called. The child immediately obeyed, a first!"

Ethan walked out of the room with Jessie, leaving his friend and daughter some privacy, it was their first severe spanking.

They took the way back.

"I prefer the way you do it" Jessie said surprising the man. "Spanking I mean."

"I understood what you meant." Ethan replied. "It's okay, I'm your dad, your feelings are stronger because it's me, you understand? "

"No, James was doing it like Dakota, he wasn't talking, he was just hitting hard."

"It was his way Jessie, like making you count spanks, your mom told me. It's not my way, but it was his. He didn't mean that Adam still did sometimes, associating it with a form of respect when punished.

"But you tell me that you love me and you explain why I deserve it ..., I'm sorry to tell you about it."

"Don't be it honey, if youwant to talk about your spanking, let's talk about it. I'm fine with that. It's my way Jessie. Talking is very important to me, much more than the strength of the spanking."

"Your spanking is very bad Papa!"

Ethan laughed.

"Yes, I don't doubt it, that's the purpose of spanking. You feel like I'm spanking hard, because your feelings at that moment multiply, the shame of being punished is why I usually lower your panties. The love you have for me, and of course the impact of my hand or my belt on your bare buttocks. I don't put much force, no need, especially on your young age."

"Still! I'm older than Tess!"

"Yes, I put even less force for Tess, none even. And a little more when I punish Adam, Claire or Joseph, they are older, but I never put all my strength, it's impossible, I would leave bruises from the first shot if I did it, I have a lot of strength, I know it, I am always in control."

"Yet your spankings are worse than James's! He did put all his strength into it, leaving bruises every time! You never do."

"I'm very careful that this doesn't happen." Clarified Ethan.

Ethan stopped walking and sat down on a fallen tree trunk. Without asking, Jessie climbed onto his knees, clinging tight to his neck.

Why had that particular spanking broken the ice between them and Jessie's feelings, because of Dakota having a more identical path to James? Ethan wondered.

"Jessie" Ethan said softly, "James was on the verge of abuse, he shouldn't have hit that hard. Dakota didn't spank Carry that hard, she won't get any bruises, I guarantee you! I would have intervened to calm him down if he had been too harsh, I promise."

"Why didn't you ever come to save us from James then?"

"Oh Jessie, I knew he was tough, but I had no idea he was abusive. If I had known I would have talked to him. I think he was a good man, despite everything. He was my best friend, maybe he had been beaten himself as a child and he didn't know what else to do? Perhaps no one had shown him the right way?"

"I never thought of it that way." The child confessed.

"Jessie, we'll never know, and he's not here to defend his actions anymore. Look at me. Now I am your father and I love you more than my own life! Even though I can be severe, I don't need strength to give my children correction. I will never let you bruise, it doesn't matter what you do and how far you test me."

Jessie was crying.

"I know Papa! If you only knew how much I love you!" Jessie said snuggling up to her father's chest, the man tightening his arms around his daughter, pulling her closer to him.

"Ready to go home, my heart?"

"Yes Pa! I'm going to tell Ma to hurry to have a baby!"

Ethan laughed.

"You do that my dear. Also it seems to me that you have lines to write for your big brother?"

"Yes Pa."

"You're doing ten this afternoon, then you can play, and you'll do ten tonight before dinner."

"Yes Papa."

Something had changed, no more challenges. Jessie had accepted him as her father and happiness shone in the way the child acted, she was freed from a weight.

In bed that night, Ethan told Amelia what had happened, she had also found her daughter more fulfilled.
"Ethan, I wanted to talk to you about Tess for a while."

"Did she challenge you again?"

"No, not at all, she's very smart, above the rest her age, did you notice?"

"Of course, she acts almost like George, two years older."

"Yes, she has been doing math with eggs for a while, addition and subtraction, simple problems. She knows some letters and writes her first name too."

"What are you trying to tell me? Ask me? I wouldn't get angry."

"I would like your permission to have her do some schoolwork, slowly, I promise you, she wants to learn, just a little in the morning, but really with a slate and a notebook. Until now, we wrote on the dirt or did it orally."

"I give you my permission dear, that said, pay attention to her needs. She is only three years old, not five, the emotions are different, even if her brain is ahead. If she is attentive, okay, but if she doesn't want to be pushed, you won't force things. Everything must be done at her pace, not yours because you are in a hurry to prepare the meal or do the household chores, you understand?"

"Yes Ethan, I promise you."

"Okay, no punishment for her schoolwork, no matter what. Disrespect will be punished of course, if it happens during a lesson, but not the work itself, you see my point? "

"Yes Honey, you have my word, you can trust me."

"I trust you, as you trust me to raise your children. Tess is also your daughter now, you have a say in her education."

"Thanks Ethan."

"You're welcome! Now, did Jessie ask you for a baby?"

"Yes, she wants it tomorrow!" Amelia laughed.

"Well, whoever tries nothing has nothing!" Ethan said kissing her tenderly.