I removed a skinny browncigarette from my case and placed it between my lips, knowing that Mr.Edwards would immediately offer me a light as his childr...n watched withapproval. I smiled at each of them as I removed the lit cigarette andinhaled the mentholated smoke. I was the smoker of the house- the onlyone who could do it with the family's blessing. Just like my mom! Ithought.Thinking of being so much like my mom made me feel good and proud andterribly sexy! But it was the good and proud part. “Do you, Nicole, take this man, Eldritch, to be your lawfully wedded husband, to have and to hold from this day forward, to love, honor, and obey, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth, for as long as you both shall live?” Lacey now put Nicole on the spot.“I do,” Nicole blushed now.“Then, by the power vested in me by the State of Tennessee, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may kiss the bride,” Lacey declared, barely catching her breath before the couple. But I believe that once you've been beaten a bit they won't seem so painful andyou may begin to accept them. Will you learn to enjoy them? Perhaps not today but maybe someday you will."I knew he intended to spank me but listening to him calmly describing what he had in mind caused a shiver to run through my body. "Now as you may recall earlier I told you that this ordeal that you will be subjected to has little to do with your pleasure and muchto do with mine. Now, I expect you to make. I wanted things to go smoothly yet had no idea how. But what were these "things?" I wanted it to be perfect and again with no strategy in mind. I think I really just wanted her. Her beautiful smile directed at me and her breath intertwined with mine.I wanted to undo her hair and run my fingers through them lovingly. I'd long fantasized about this moment, this coming of moments but already felt the ground shaking beneath me, the cracks opening up where she'd see right through me before it.