An Unexpected Husband by Constance Masters

the trouble she was already in that there was still a hint of an attitude. He took her hand. “Come on,” he said.
    He sat on the bed and started to remove her clothes.
    She tried to shrug him off.
    “Stop it,” he said. He lifted her t-shirt over her head, stopping to raise an eyebrow as she tried to stop him. “This is punishment, a punishment you truly deserve. Do you agree that you’ve earned a punishment spanking?”
    Skye’s bottom lip wobbled. “I don’t want you to take off my clothes.”
    “Fine I’ll compromise on that as it’s the first time we’ve done this. You can remove your own clothes.”
    “I don’t want to do that either,” she whined.
    “Do it,” he said sternly. “Or I’ll do it for you.”
    She set her lips in a thin line and crossed her arms.
    Shaun shook his head. This woman was more frustrating than any child he’d ever taught.
    “No Shaun!” she squealed when his hands went to undo her jeans. “I don’t know why you’re taking off ALL my clothes. You only need my ass. OW!”
    Shaun had wrestled her pants down and smacked her bottom.
    “Hush. You don’t get to decide this time.”
    “That sucks,” she said clapping her hand over her mouth as soon as it escaped. “Did I say that out loud?”
    “Uh huh,” he said smacking her bottom over her panties again before he lowered them. He removed the rest of her clothing piece by piece until she stood before him completely naked. “Behave yourself. Stand there until I tell you to move or I’ll give you extra.”
    Shaun watched the heat creep slowly up Skye’s neck to flood her face with colour. He could tell it was killing her to not be able to cover herself. Particularly her belly. Embarrassment was seeping out of her in so many ways. She was blushing and shuffling from leg to leg. Her fingers were opening and closing into fists and it was taking all of her control to stand there and not talk back or turn away from him. He was impressed though, hard as she’d found it, she’d done as he asked. Finally he pointed to the corner.
    “I’m not a child. I don’t wanna to stand in the corner,” Skye whined. He rolled his eyes. One step forward and two steps back. He turned her around and slapped her naked bottom, harder this time and pointed to the corner again. She stomped her bare foot on the carpet but slowly dragged herself over to the corner anyway, be it with a scowl on her face. Shaun sighed and then took her phone out of her pocket. He needed to get her Dad’s number so he could call and see what he could do to fix this mess.
    While he was talking to a very unimpressed Rob, he walked around looking at the bounty of goods. Ron had been astounded at both Skye’s behaviour AND Maddie’s. By the time he hung up he was pretty certain that Skye’s mother would be getting an earful from her husband.
    He had to admit, some of the things were actually very cute and some were very useful. What he wanted though was to go shopping WITH Skye to choose what they needed for their baby.
    Looking at all the things that a baby needed though made his mind boggle. Wow, they were actually going to have a child. There would really be a baby sitting in a car seat very much like this one, or sleeping in a crib like this. His Mom was right, he needed to make an honest woman of Sky and there wasn’t much time to lose.
     
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    “Was he mad?” Skye asked when Shaun came back into the room. She’d heard him talking in a low tone but couldn’t make out what was being said.
    “I’m not going to talk to you about that at the moment.” He sat on the bed and crooked his finger for her to come to him.
    She chewed the inside of her cheek and turned to face the corner again. Suddenly, she seemed to like it there.
    “Skye…come here.”
    “Can I put my T-shirt on?”
    “No.”
    She stayed where she was, she hated her bump showing.
    “Now, come here. If I have to come get you