"You know what I have to do now, little girl. Off you go, find a corner for your cute little nose. I'll be there in a few minutes and I expect to find a naked woman waiting for me." Olivia instructed, giving Alex's jean-clad bottom a sharp spank to get her moving in the right direction.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex winced and scurried to the bedroom where she immediately began to undress. It wasn't often that she was told to completely strip for a spanking, but she didn't question the order, trusting that Olivia knew what was best for her. If she took the time to think about it, Alex understood exactly why she was going to be punished naked. She had lied to Olivia and hidden the credit card bill from her, so now during her punishment Alex wasn't going to be allowed to hide even her own flesh from Olivia's eyes. It was a powerful tool that Olivia found to be very effective for her sweet little Alex. The submissive blonde could never quite understand exactly why being draped naked across her fully clothed wife's lap added so much extra weight to the punishment when, as a married couple, Olivia saw her naked body all the time, but she was very clever and Olivia knew that all she had to do was tell Alex that she was going to be punished naked, and Alex would immediately understand that she was in severe trouble. Making certain that her clothes were put away properly, Alex stood in the corner and placed her hands on her head to wait for Olivia.
Olivia let Alex stew in the corner for about ten minutes and then she went to the bedroom, pleased to find Alex standing naked in the corner exactly where she was supposed to be. The brunette detective went to the closet and debated in her mind which implement would be appropriate to use for her darling's naughty bottom. With a heavy heart, she retrieved her belt from its hook. Going back into the room, she retrieved the hairbrush from the bedside table drawer. Olivia sat down on the bed, laid the belt down beside her, and held the hairbrush in her hand.
"Come here, Alex."
Upon hearing Olivia's voice releasing her from her captivity in the corner, Alex turned and dropped to her knees at Olivia's feet. Her lower lip trembled when she laid eyes on the implements Olivia had chosen, but if she was being completely honest with herself, she had been anticipating a caning and had to admit that a hairbrushing and a whipping was more than fair and certainly more lenient than she thought she deserved. Olivia gently lifted Alex's chin, forcing her submissive wife to make eye contact with her, repentant baby blues clashing with stern chocolate brown orbs. A tear escaped from the corner of Alex's eye and Olivia gently wiped the tear away with her thumb.
"Do you understand why you're being punished?" Olivia inquired.
"Yes, Ma'am, because I spent one hundred dollars over our budget without permission and I hid the credit card bill from you, which is a form of lying." Alex admitted.
"Over you go." Olivia guided Alex to her feet and guided the blushing blonde over her lap, gently rubbing Alex's bottom to encourage her bottom muscles to relax, "The last time we had to address an issue similar to this one, you were such a good girl to come straight to me and show me the bill immediately. Why was this time different?"
"Because… because I didn't want you to know that I had screwed up in the same way again. I didn't… I didn't want you to think less of me." Alex choked out staring down at the familiar patch of carpet, her breasts hanging down and her bottom muscles relaxing as she felt Olivia rubbing her bottom.
"Alexandra Justine, it doesn't matter what kind of trouble you manage to get yourself into, I will never think less of you. I think very highly of you and nothing you do or don't do will change that. You are beautiful and intelligent and passionate and talented and loving, and even when I have to spank this naughty bottom, I am so proud that you are mine. It's true that I had hoped that the spanking you got last time for spending over budget without permission would have made a lasting impression, but I don't want you beating yourself up over this. We all make mistakes, and I certainly don't expect you to be perfect. You made a mistake, and you are so brave and strong to be here over my lap facing the consequences of your actions, and I am so proud of you. I am not the least bit annoyed or angry with you, and I have already forgiven you. Now you need to forgive yourself, and I am fixing to help you do that. Do you still agree that spankings are effective and beneficial for you?"
"Yes, Ma'am. I wouldn't feel good about myself if you didn't spank me."
"Good girl. Now let's talk about this little incident today. I understand why you were hesitant to admit to me what you had done, nobody likes anything having to do with discipline, but the next time something catches your fancy that costs extra money, I want you to remember this punishment and remember that you need to communicate with me. I love spoiling you and letting you have the things you want that bring you joy. We aren't rolling in riches, but we aren't destitute either and I very easily could have been talked into letting you spend that extra hundred dollars if you had just come to me and communicated with me. You can kneel, you can cuddle on my lap, or we can just sit on the couch, whatever you want, but you need to talk to me about these decisions because financial decisions don't just affect you, they affect both of us. We have a set budget for a reason and we both need to obey it. And lying, young lady, doesn't do any favors for anybody, least of all for this naughty bottom. If you had been honest with me today, you still would be facing a hairbrushing for spending over budget without permission, but you wouldn't be facing a mouth soaping and a whipping on top of it. Do you understand?"
"Yes, Ma'am. I will do better next time. I'm sorry."
"I know you're sorry, and I'm sorry I have to be so hard on you, but I'm afraid you brought it on yourself. You are in complete control here, baby. You are the one who makes the choices to obey the rules you have agreed to obey, or disobey the rules and face the consequences. While I'm spanking you, I want you to focus on the pain and associate the pain with your behavior. Do you have anything else you want to tell me or ask me before we start?" Olivia tapped the hairbrush on Alex's bottom.
"Will you hold my hand during my whipping?" Alex whimpered.
"Of course I will. I love you so much, I am not just here to punish you and be done with you, I am here to support you through this. Do you want me to hold your hand now?" Olivia offered.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex reached back and placed her hand in the small of her back. Olivia took Alex's hand in her own and noticed that Alex's palm was clammy.
"You have no reason to be afraid, angel, I promise you are very safe. It's going to hurt, and then it's going to be over and I will hold you for as long as you want, just the same as always. It might be a few hours from now, but when you and I walk out that door, it will be as if this incident never happened. Lay your head down."
Alex laid her head down on the bed and yelped as Olivia brought the hairbrush down right from the start, followed quickly by another, and another, and another, and another. Alex lost count after the first fifteen spanks and quickly began to cry as her bottom was spanked from white to pink to red. It didn't take long for the repentant blonde to lose all sense of time, convinced that she was going to be spanked forever, having no idea how many spanks she had taken or how many spanks she had left to take. Olivia made certain to focus her strict attention across Alex's entire bottom, including her tender sit-spots. In addition to alternating between Alex's cheeks, she also spent time spanking her naughty blonde on the center of her bottom across both cheeks.
"Stand up when you want to, little girl, and we'll go wash the lies out of your mouth." Olivia tossed the hairbrush aside and gently rested her hand on Alex's unspanked thigh, finally satisfied with the color of Alex's cherry red bottom.
Alex spent a few short minutes resting and catching her breath, then she pushed herself up from Olivia's lap and was careful to keep her hands away from her bottom as Olivia led her into the bathroom. Alex hesitated for only a split second before she obediently, albeit reluctantly, sat down on the hard porcelain of the toilet seat lid that she knew she was expected to sit on, whimpering as her freshly spanked skin made contact. While Olivia prepared the soapy cloth, Alex took the opportunity to wipe her eyes and blow her nose. She was grateful to Olivia for choosing to wash her mouth out with soap before her whipping instead of after her whipping, knowing from experience how much more it hurt to sit on a whipped bottom compared to a hairbrushed bottom.
"Open." Olivia placed her hand on the nape of Alex's neck as if drawing her to her.
Alex squeezed her eyes closed and opened her mouth, forcing herself to sit still and not pull away as Olivia thoroughly scrubbed her mouth with the soapy cloth, including her tongue, the sides of her mouth, and against her teeth. When Alex once again had tears streaming down her sweet face and her shoulders were shaking with silent sobs, Olivia finally removed the cloth and tossed it into the sink, and then she placed the bar of soap in Alex's mouth. As always, Alex was allowed to rest her head against Olivia's hip and Olivia held her hand and stroked her long blonde hair while Olivia gave her another lecture, reiterating the reasons why Alex was being punished.
"I don't like this any more than you do, my angel. It's almost over. Are you going to remember to communicate with me next time instead of going behind my back?"
Unable to speak with the soap in her mouth, Alex nodded against Olivia's hip.
"That's my good girl. Go to the sink and spit as much as you want. You can rinse after your whipping." Olivia stepped aside to allow Alex access to the sink, but she did not kiss Alex's forehead.
Alex jumped up and hurried to the sink where she spent several minutes spitting out as much soap as humanly possible, gagging a bit in the process. Olivia watched carefully to make sure that Alex wouldn't get physically sick.
"Can I wipe my mouth, please?" Alex asked with soap suds foaming around her mouth and dripping down her chin.
"Yes, but if I see you trying to wipe your tongue, we'll repeat the entire process again and you'll get a longer whipping." Olivia warned as she handed Alex a clean cloth.
Alex wiped her face and chin, and then was led back into the bedroom with the horrible taste of ivory still clinging to her tongue. Without being told, Alex draped herself over the bed with two pillows under her hips elevating her bottom and once again placed her hand in the small of her back, silently pleading for emotional support through the last of her punishment. She relaxed a little bit when she felt Olivia take her hand, but she tensed up again when she felt the belt tapping her bottom.
"Relax back here, little one, you know better. You've been such a good girl so far, keep it up." Olivia encouraged.
Wanting desperately to prove that she was a good girl, Alex forced herself to relax her bottom muscles.
"Good girl. Tell me again why you've been punished today."
"Because I spent one hundred dollars over budget without permission and I hid the bill from you. I'm sorry, Ma'am, I'll never do it again. Next time I'll communicate with you, I promise. Please don't be angry." Alex wept.
"I'm not angry with you, baby. I would never, ever punish my angel while I'm angry, you know that. Lay your head down, we're almost done."
Upon being reassured that Olivia wasn't angry with her, Alex laid her head down on the bed and squeezed her eyes closed, determined to accept the last part of her punishment with as much grace as she could possibly muster. The submissive blonde choked on a scream as the belt whipped her bottom into a crimson blaze of agony and once again she quickly lost all sense of time. She was grateful that Olivia was holding her hand, because there was no way she would be able to endure this without reaching back and earning herself further punishment. Alex didn't even realize when it was finally over.
Seeing Alex go limp on the bed, Olivia immediately threw down the belt and kicked it under the bed out of sight. She would retrieve it and put it away later, but right now Alex didn't need to lay eyes on it, she needed to be cuddled, comforted, and babied. Olivia made everything about her body language, facial expression, and tone of voice very tender and loving as she sat down beside Alex's naked body and used one hand to gently rub her heaving back while the other gently stroked her long blonde hair.
"That's my good girl. Such a good girl." Olivia repeated these sentiments over and over into Alex's ear, seeming to understand that Alex would be able to comprehend nothing else in her current frame.
Alex slowly began to calm and found herself being gently guided upright and being guided toward the bathroom. Her exhausted brain couldn't quite comprehend what was happening, and at the doorway she involuntarily pulled back, clinging to the doorframe. She was so thoroughly exhausted that she hadn't even heard Olivia explaining to her what was happening.
"No, please! I was a good girl! I tried! Please no more!" Alex sobbed fearfully.
Olivia stopped immediately, realizing that Alex thought she was taking her back into the bathroom to continue punishing her.
"You were such a good girl for me, my princess. Such a very good girl. It's just me, baby, I promise you are very safe. Let's go rinse that awful taste out of your mouth so you feel a little bit better, okay? No more punishment, just rinsing with water, I promise. Just rinsing with water, and then a nice, long cuddle for my good girl. I'll hold you for the rest of the day if that's what my baby wants." Olivia soothed lovingly, reiterating again that she was only taking Alex into the bathroom to rinse her mouth with water and no further punishment was going to happen.
Olivia's gentle words finally seemed to register in Alex's mind and the blonde allowed her brunette wife to take her into the bathroom where Olivia finally kissed Alex's forehead the way she always did after a mouthsoaping, and Alex spent several minutes rinsing her mouth with water until the disgusting taste of ivory was about as diluted as it was going to get. With that accomplished, Olivia gently led her thoroughly distraught submissive wife back into the bedroom and arranged them so that they were comfy on the bed, with Olivia sitting with her back against the headboard and Alex practically on top of her to be cuddled, comforted, and babied, being careful to keep Alex's punished bottom off the rough material of her jeans.
"Such a good girl. I know that was hard, sweetheart, I'm so proud of you for being so brave and strong. You just rest now and cry it out, sweetheart, I'm right here holding you. There's nothing left to forgive and nothing left to feel guilty for. I love you so much, there is nothing you could ever do to make me stop loving you. Even when I am punishing you, I love you more than anything and my only goal is to help you."
Olivia continued to soothe and comfort Alex for quite a long time. Safe in Olivia's strong arms and listening to Olivia's gentle voice, Alex began to feel her guilt draining away, replaced by feelings of peace and renewal and the knowledge that in Olivia's eyes she was a good girl worth more than all the gold in the world. There was no such thing as having to earn Olivia's love, approval, or forgiveness because Olivia gave her those things freely. The punished bottom she was currently sporting was entirely for her own benefit, not for Olivia's vengeful satisfaction. Finally, Alex's eyes were mostly dry with just a few stray tears still clinging to her eyelashes, but still she stayed wrapped in Olivia's arms, needing the nurturing and cuddling that Olivia was giving her. As Olivia gently rubbed her belly, Alex melted into the much-needed affection. Alex looked up at Olivia and the dominant brunette was relieved to find that Alex's baby blue eyes, albeit puffy and bloodshot from crying, were peaceful and confident. Once again, Alex's world was made right by the strange magic of a red bottom and a cuddle, and she could forgive herself and move forward with a clean slate and do better in the future.
"Should I take everything back to the store tomorrow?" Alex asked. Olivia considered the question, and her heart melted as she looked into Alex's eyes.
"I think you will choose two things to take back, but you can keep the rest. And you can keep the dress." Olivia couldn't help but grant most of her darling's wishes, including the most expensive item on the list that she had to admit she was looking forward to seeing her beloved angel wearing on their next date night.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex beamed happily.
Alex stayed cuddled in Olivia's arms, feeling safe and protected, until her belly called for attention.
"Don't wanna move." Alex pouted.
"Let's get you dressed and make one move out to the couch. We'll order pizza and I'll hold you while we eat in front of the TV. I'm hungry too. When we're done, if you still want me to hold you, we'll just stay on the couch and relax." Olivia suggested.
"Yes, Ma'am." Alex reluctantly got up from Olivia's lap and found that she was a little wobbly on her legs after her ordeal, but Olivia easily caught her in her arms. Olivia carefully guided Alex to step into a pair of panties and the brunette detective pulled them up over Alex's punished bottom very, very gently. Alex whimpered softly as the material rubbed against her bottom and Olivia kissed her forehead.
"Such a good girl. Pants or no pants?"
"No pants."
"How about we just slip you into my NYPD sweatshirt?"
"I'd like that." Alex smiled. Even though it was too big for her, Alex loved to wear Olivia's oversized NYPD sweatshirt because it smelled of Olivia's perfume and was a great comfort to her.
Restoring Alex's modesty and officially signaling the end of her punishment, Olivia took Alex out to the living room where she sat on the couch and once again cuddled Alex on her lap. Olivia reached for her cell phone and ordered the pizza, then she turned on the TV and gave Alex full control over the remote. Alex found what she wanted to watch and happily snuggled down into Olivia's arms. Olivia rolled her eyes at the movie Alex had chosen, but she said nothing about it and just cuddled Alex close to her heart while they waited for the pizza to arrive.