Big Blue Valentine: A Sci-Fi Alien Romance (3 page)

Chapter Four

Minnie watched the water and soapy bubbles rising in the massive bathtub. Once the water became deep enough it turned off automatically, and the abrupt silence thickened the tension in the room. She couldn’t meet Zak’s eyes, so she kept her gaze low and tried not to cry.

“Take your dress and underthings off, Minnie.”

She glanced up to find gentleness flickering beneath his firm exterior. She latched onto the hope that he would forgive her, and she vowed to behave herself from here on out. No more schemes. No more impulsive behavior. No naughtiness whatsoever. She would spend more time with mild-mannered and soft spoken Princess Genna and learn all that she could about how a proper Aklannian wife conducted herself.

“Minnie,” Zak said, coming to tower over her. “Remove your clothing now. Don’t make me ask again.”

Under his watchful gaze, she slipped her shoes off and worked the buttons of her dress open. He continued staring at her, his demeanor dark and forbidding. She couldn’t ever recall feeling so vulnerable in her life, but what choice did she have? If she tried to run away and hide again, he would catch her before she stepped foot outside their chambers.

Taking a deep breath, she pushed her dress over her shoulders and it fell into a pool of silky fabric at her feet. She wore a sheer, snug chemise that encased her breasts, and she slipped that off next. She hesitated to remove her panties, but Zak made an impatient noise, so she pushed those down too and nudged her clothing to the side. Standing naked before her displeased husband, she bowed her head and prayed he would show her leniency and most of all, forgiveness.

“Get into the bathtub.” His brusque tone sent her scurrying for the water. She sank low in the tub, grateful for the modesty provided by the layer of bubbles.

Zak grabbed a washcloth and reached for her right arm. With gentle movements, he began rubbing the red dots from her skin. Her breath hitched. Though his body was stiff and she felt his irritation, his kindness tugged at her heart and gave her more hope for their future. Once her right arm was clean, he paid the same careful attention to her left arm, and then moved to scrub the remaining marker from her face, neck, and chest.

He paused and regarded her with a pained look and tossed the washcloth into the water. He gripped her upper arms and yanked her toward him, until their noses almost touched. She gasped.

“Do you want to go back to Earth, Minnie? Are you unhappy here?”

“What?” She shook her head so fast her hair flipped about wildly. “No, Zak! I don’t want to go anywhere. I want to stay here with you, but only if you still want me.”

“Of course I still want you, you silly human!” His grip tightened and he gave her a small shake. “Even if you turn me blue, scare my relatives, upset half the palace, and make my mother faint on a daily basis, I’ll never stop wanting you.”

“Really?” Rays of warm light shined on the darkness that had been gathering inside her.

“Yes!” He released her and sat on the side of the tub, picked up the washcloth, and began cleaning the spots from her legs. “I’ll even want you when you’re covered in red spots.” He tickled the sole of her foot and she giggled.

Relief coursed through her in waves. She let loose a deep breath and smiled at Zak.

“I didn’t forget Valentine’s Day, by the way. You turned me blue for nothing.”

She clutched the sides of the tub. “What do you mean?”

“Prince Attab’s ship didn’t really get delayed, and I wasn’t supposed to fill in for him in Parliament today. I planned to take you on a sky cruise and I had to see about the final preparations, so I thought to trick you into thinking I’d forgotten to make the surprise all that much sweeter.” He paused rubbing her leg. “I thought you might pout a bit, but I never imagined you’d poison me.”

“I didn’t poison you! Zak, I knew for a fact the lemon wouldn’t really harm you. It was an impulsive, ridiculous thing to do, and I really am sorry. I won’t do it again.”

He arched an eyebrow at her and resumed cleansing her legs. “After the spanking I’m about to give you, I imagine you won’t even want to look at lemons again.”

She opened her mouth to argue, but clamped her lips together at his stern look. “I suppose I do deserve a spanking,” she eventually said.

“A hard spanking on your bare bottom,” he amended, placing the washcloth down. He pushed his sleeves up higher and studied her for a long, tense moment. “You’ll take your punishment right now, right here in the bathtub, Minnie. Turn over on your hands and knees and lift your naughty bottom up in the air.”

This time she couldn’t refrain from arguing. “But I’m all wet! Can’t I dry off first? Then you can punish me in our bedroom like you normally do.” She started to rise from the water, but Zak placed a steadying hand on her shoulder.

“Obey me, Minnie, and present your bottom for punishment.”

Shame heated her face as she turned over on her hands and knees, not quite believing he meant to chastise her like this. He knelt beside the tub and cupped her bottom. His large hands covered both her cheeks, and she tensed in anticipation of the first stinging slap. She peered at him from the corner of her eye, all blue and huge and powerful. Though she feared the pain of her spanking, she didn’t fear Zak. He had promised to never truly hurt her, and to ease her initial worries he’d corrected her lightly the first couple of times she earned a spanking.

After a few months of marriage, she had grown to appreciate the absolution that came with a punishment. Crave it, even. At first the realization had startled her, but now she accepted it as part of the dynamic of their marriage. He guided, while she tried her best to support him and follow his lead.

“I’m not going to spend all day scolding you, Minnie. You know what you did wrong. I do, however, want you to understand there is nothing you could do to make me stop wanting you, nothing you could do that would cause me to send you away. You made some mistakes today, but that doesn’t make you a bad wife. Yes, you happen to be a tad feistier than the average Aklannian female, but I love you just as you are.”

“I love you too, and I understand. It’s just that I’ve never done anything so bad before. My imagination sort of got the best of me. I started worrying about our future.” A tear cascaded down her face and dropped into the water.

“Our future is together,” he said matter-of-factly. “Whether on Earth or Erta’Aklann, we will always be together. You’re my home, Minnie. Not this planet or any other planet, but you.”

A sob erupted from her throat, and she smiled at him through her tears. “That is the sweetest thing you’ve ever said to me. You’re my home too, Zak.”

He returned her smile, but only for a second. The sternness, the resolute expression he always wore as he doled out punishment, came back and sent a shiver down her spine.

“Try to remain in position, Minnie. This is going to be fast and hard.”

* * *

Zak brought his hand down on Minnie’s wet backside, striking her right bottom cheek first. She gasped but remained in position, even as he struck her left cheek. He moved from side to side, applying firm spanks to her bum. Her glistening flesh reddened under his punishing hand.

The water sloshed as she lurched forward slightly and whimpered through a round of smacks to her upper thighs. She kept her head down and her hair obscured her face, but the tiny shaking of her shoulders told him she’d begun to cry. He paused to rub her back and give her a small break, knowing a spanking on her wet bottom carried a sharper sting than she was accustomed to.

“You’re being a very good girl, Minnie.” He stroked her back a few more seconds before resuming her chastisement.
Thwack!
He continued on, delivering quick, hard slaps to her behind.

“Please!” She tried to twist away from his descending hand, but he leaned into the tub and captured her close to him, not missing a beat as he struck her flaming cheeks.

He hated to cause her pain, but he wouldn’t stand for a disobedient wife. Minnie also had a tendency to internalize her guilt, and he didn’t wish for her to walk around with a heavy heart when he had the ability to give her an emotional release. She struggled against his hold, but he remained firm and didn’t go easy on her.

“Oh, please, Zak! I’m sorry!” She ceased fighting him after one last valiant attempt to break free, then she remained still in the water, accepting her punishment even though it had brought her to tears.

Zak landed two more smacks and then stopped to rub her reddened ass. “That was for turning me blue and for faking an illness, Minnie.” He splayed her bottom cheeks apart with one hand, revealing her puckering hole. “This is for disobeying me when I told you to remain in our chambers. You are never to run from me, wife, never to hide from me.” He slipped one finger into her tight back entrance, pushing past her resistance and ignoring her whimpers.

“Please not this.” She trembled and her bum tensed around his probing digit.

“Yes, Minnie.
This
. Your little bottom is mine to chastise as I see fit, including this tight passage of yours. You earned this punishment, and I intend to make this lesson a memorable one.”

He added a second finger and pushed deeper, thrusting in and out of her snug entrance while she made pitiful whimpering noises. Only on rare occasions, when she was exceedingly naughty, did he spread her freshly spanked globes and insert a finger or two into her most private hole. He thought her behavior today warranted such strict treatment.

“Naughty girl, Minnie. You were so naughty today that I had to not only spank you, but punish your bottom hole too.” He shoved deeper and she gasped.

“Please. I’m so sorry.” Her shoulders shook under another sob. “I’ll never run and hide from you again. I promise!”

When he felt she had been punished thoroughly enough, he withdrew from her tightness and quickly washed his hands in the water. Stroking her back, he leaned down to speak into her ear, his voice firm. “The next time you hide from me, Minnie, it will be my cock you feel in your asshole instead of my fingers. Do you understand?”

“Yes, sir. I understand,” she said while nodding vigorously.

He pressed the button to drain the remaining water. He grabbed a fresh towel and urged Minnie to her feet. Wrapping the towel around her, he hugged her to his chest and stroked her hair. “It’s over, wife.”

She sobbed against him and he strengthened his embrace. The scent of her shampoo filled his senses, and he brushed untamed curls from her face and pressed a lingering kiss atop her head. She calmed in small measures as he whispered comforting words. Her cries gradually faded to sniffles, and finally her sniffles gave way to deep breaths.

“I’m so very sorry,” she murmured, peering up at him with red eyes.

“I know. All is forgiven, my sweet Minnie.”

He scooped her up in his arms and carried her into their bedroom. He strode to a large plush chair and sat down with her cradled in his lap. She laced her arms around his waist and sighed against his chest.

“You know,” she said in a thoughtful voice, “I think you look rather handsome when you’re all blue.”

He chuckled into her hair. “Before I realized you were the one to taint my
dresman
juice, I worried you’d take one look at me, scream, and run the other way.”

“Never! I don’t care if you’re blue, or red, or green. You’ll still be the most handsome Aklannian in the whole universe.”

“Well, I’m glad you feel that way, because according the physician I’ll be blue for a few days. Perhaps during the whole time we’re on the sky cruise.”

“You mean we’re still going? After all this?”

“Of course we’re still going. It’s our first Valentine’s Day as husband and wife, Minnie. According to my research, it’s a momentous event. Not as big as our one year wedding anniversary that’s coming up, but still an important date to celebrate. The airship is still waiting and our bags are all packed and on board.”

“You are so sweet,” she said, raining kisses on his face as she giggled. “My big, blue Valentine.”

If anyone else had called him
sweet
or
big blue Valentine
, they wouldn’t live to see tomorrow. But Minnie held his heart, and he secretly beamed under her compliments.

Her little movements on his lap made his cock ache and his balls draw up tight with longing. She peered at him seductively from under her eyelashes and ground her bottom over his throbbing hardness.

“I wonder,” she said with a grin, “If
something else
is big and blue right now.”

With a growl, he carried her to their bed and tossed her upon the covers. Her towel parted to reveal her naked form. She spread her legs and the scent of her feminine arousal beckoned to him, prompting all the blood in his body to rush south. His shaft pressed against his pants, his cock aching to sink between her thighs.

“Get on your hands and knees, wife. I am going to pound your pussy from behind.”

* * *

Zak’s shoes and clothing flew to the floor. Minnie rested on her hands and knees, gawking at him from over her shoulder. The sight of his broad, muscular chest caused her breath to come in short gasps. Her heart thudded faster with each second, and her mouth went dry at the sight of his massive, blue erection.