Shana's Guardian by Sue Lyndon

Author:Sue Lyndon [Lyndon, Sue]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Amazon: B00ASP1ZI8
Publisher: Blushing Publications
Published: 2012-12-22T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

As the end of October arrived, Shana’s nervousness over the wedding celebration increased. Everywhere she went in the settlement, whispers seemed to follow. Her two closet friends, Margery and Beth, insisted no one was gossiping about her marriage to Daman, but she suspected they were lying to protect her feelings. Did people gossip like this before The Fall? She made a mental note to ask old Mary Miller.

Shana’s heart bounced when she glanced out the kitchen window and spotted Daman in the backyard. The wide door of his workshop was open, and he was busy building a bookcase for one of the neighbors. The shop was brimming with new furniture he’d made, and she realized it wouldn’t be long before he hauled it away to a trading post or another settlement. She hated when he left her, and he never invited her to accompany him on any of his trips.

She stirred the soup on the stove, tasted it, and added a few more spices before stealing another look out the window at her new husband. Maybe since she was now his wife he’d bring her along next time. Yes, she’d bring it up over lunch. He’d been in high spirits for the last two weeks – since their wedding. She’d also been on her best behavior and hadn’t had a real spanking since then either. Of course, he smacked her behind during their playacting in bed, but that didn’t count. A real spanking was when he scolded her, bent her over the desk in his study, and paddled her butt until she could scarcely breathe through the painful blows. A real spanking left her sore and blistered for days, remorseful and humbled.

She shivered, despite the warmth rising up from the stove. The day would come that she either disobeyed or displeased him enough to warrant true discipline at his hands. Would it be different now that they were married? She felt safe with Daman, she trusted him more than anyone else, yet she feared the first actual spanking as his wife.

Beth had confessed once that her husband whipped her with a belt for cursing at him during an argument. It wasn’t unusual for a wife to be physically disciplined by her husband. Men were the heads of the household, and in this fallen world, women were property to be sold into marriage. If Daman had arranged a union for her with another man, he would’ve had to pay a dowry – and considering her age a high one at that. Were the settlement folk raising eyebrows over this fact? Instead of paying a man to take her off his hands, Daman saved coin and trading goods by keeping her for himself. They might love each other, but the rest of the world wouldn’t know about the deep feelings that had taken root and grown into a beautiful garden. To most of the world, they probably looked like a perversion allowed to exist only because of a technicality, the technicality that they weren’t blood relatives.

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