“GIRLS DON’T NEED MODESTY” (1959) Mental Hygiene Film, Produced by C.W. Neff & W.H. Sheldon, and Narrated by Ian Neff, B.S. in conjunction with W.H. Sheldon Disciplinary Academy for Girls and Kellogg’s Ladies Institute for Tradition, Sponsors Include Kellogg’s, Coppertone, Band-Aid, and Graham Crackers, with special thanks to the Fort Gilead Jezebelles who were volunteered by their parents to participate in this production.
All illustrations were created by me with A.I assistance but heavily edited. This one is inspired by the classic Domestic Bliss art and mental hygiene films where the viewer took a front row seat or a Peeping Tom’s eye view from the homes of the families that lived next door to you in every town, everywhere in modern middle America 1959.
Join Ian Neff and Lucky his steadfast cameraman as we explored the female condition and introduce the latest in understanding the female mind through proven discipline concepts such as P.I.G., S.O.W., M.O.M., and of course H.O.L.E.
Let’s take a look what the Carter family are up to today. It seems Claire Carter is out with a boy, Calvin her twin brother is at a Gallant Patrol meeting, and Arthur Carter is freshening up after a long day of work.
Ian is met at the door by a prominent member of the Peach Valley P.T.A, and Gay Women’s Auxiliary, Belinda Carter, Her daughter Melanie is the one that Ian is there to interview in his first self-contained featurette as we tried to determine if Melanie is a Girlfailure or a Girlwonder.
FIRST FEATURETTE: Be A Melony Melanie
“Melanie, come downstairs and show Doctor Neff your titties, dear,” Melanie’s mother Hazel shouted upstairs firmly but politely. It was 1959, at the peak of the (DBHH) Domestic Bliss Happy Housewife Movement, otherwise known as “the good old days,” to many.
Melanie’s mother smiled graciously at the Doctor while he sipped the tea that she had just graciously served him. She wore a lovely green short-sleeve shirtwaist dress with white collar and apron that came up above the knee like most wives wore at home back then. She also wore four-inch-high heels, and her hair and makeup were perfect even though she had no idea that Ian and his camera man were going to drop by this afternoon.
“My father C.W. Neff is the Doctor. I am still working on my Masters degree,” he admitted. He was a dashing young man in his tweed suit and tie.
“I am so sorry, you look like a Doctor, Mister Neff!”
Ian wore his well-trimmed beard and curled up handlebar mustache just like his father did. His job as a schoolteacher at the W.H. Sheldon Disciplinary Academy for girls offered him a comfortable life as an academic and this was the first scene of the mental hygiene that he planned to shoot for his documentary.
“My father and H.W. Sheldon are research partners, and they asked me to narrate a documentary about girls and modesty. This is my first interview,” he said. This film was one of many that would be collectively categorized as mental hygiene films such as Moral Maturity: Good Girls Can Say Yes, Too, What Makes a Good Party, Should Girls Study Home Economics, and Home Discipline Techniques in the Modern Age.
“Modesty? Girls don’t have any use for that,” Melanie’s Mom said dismissively. “Why was Melanie selected for this interview? Is there something special about her?”
“We plan to focus on Girlfailures who embody all the negative attributes of women and show them how they can be Girlwonders like your daughter,” Ian explained.
She didn’t want to say how astonished and honored she was because Belinda had been raised in the old-fashioned belief that women should remain graceful and demure around house guests. She wanted to jump up and down, but she resisted the urge.
Melanie’s mom wished more than ever that her daughter would hurry down for the interview. “I don’t want to raise my voice again. My husband is home from work, and I don’t want to disturb him unnecessarily. Shall I go check on her?”
“I am sure she’ll be right down,” Ian replied patiently.
“Where is that girl? I swear, if she wasn’t going to be interviewed by you then I’d take her panties down and paddle her myself!”
“Just do whatever you’d normally do, Mrs. Carter,” Ian insisted that it would be far more natural if it didn’t seem staged. Melanie’s mom didn’t fully understand but politely smiled anyway. “Girls have a tendency to operate on their own time.”
Melanie didn’t complain when she was summoned. She was raised in a household that believed girls had little use for modesty, and that the greatest ambition a girl should ever have is to be a good daughter.
The best ambition a good daughter should ever have is to land a good husband so she can be a good wife and start a family and raise good sons and good daughters of her own through her example.
The only reason it had taken her a few minutes to prepare herself was she was squeezing into pantyhose and a girdle, wiggling into heels that were too small, so her feet seemed dainty, applying fresh makeup and perfume.
That, and she had been two fingers deep in the middle of playing with herself while she had the room to herself. She loved sucking the taste of herself off of her fingers after she finished masturbating. Melanie hadn’t been able to reach orgasm which deeply frustrated her, but she enjoyed the taste and smell of her pussy on her fingers and didn’t wash them so it would be there later.
She hoped that didn’t make her a lesbian, because back then it was considered almost as deviant as dating a person of another race.
“Why do you believe girls have no use for modesty, Mrs. Carter?” Ian relaxed in the best chair in the house while she stood in her own living room, oblivious to what Melanie was doing upstairs.
Ian nodded toward his cameraman, Lucky Stroganoff. The lanky cameraman adjusted the lens of the heavy 16mm camera. He’d been a war correspondent and knew how to get a shot quickly.
Mrs. Carter smoothed the front of her apron and looked directly into the camera. Her smile was bright and unforced.
“Just be natural, Mrs. Carter, you can even have a seat if you like,” Ian offered the woman a seat in her own home knowing that most women would never be seated while a male guest was present.
“Thank you, but I’d prefer to stand, Mr. Neff,” she smiled and thought of her words carefully. “Well, Mister Neff, it’s quite simple,” Belinda explained in a clear, measured voice. “Modesty is just vanity wearing a mask. When a young lady tries to hide her body or her actions behind a curtain of privacy, she is usually trying to conceal a flaw in her attitude. Stubbornness, vanity, deceit, or a desire to lollygag instead of being useful. A girl with nothing to hide has no reason to be secretive.”
She gestured toward the stairs with a serene expression as she discussed her attitudes about raising her daughters.
“In our house, we look at a girl’s development the same way we look at a clean kitchen floor or a well-swept driveway. Exposure creates honesty, and when she is older then she can be entitled to dignity, respect and pride but she’s just a silly girl without two thoughts to rub together, and more tits than brains,” Belinda covered her mouth and inhaled as if she were trying to swallow the words after they escaped her mouth.
“It’s quite alright, Mrs. Carter. You’ve done nothing wrong. I’ve heard many reasons why girls don’t need modesty over the years. My father wrote the book on the topic, after all. You could save people the time to read several dry academic chapters on humility and the female mind with your plain and honest talk.”
“That’s very nice of you but whatever you can learn about women you won’t find in a book. Most of us don’t even understand why we do half the things we do,” she smiled sweetly.
She heard her daughter’s heels clicking on the stairs and sighed.
“We ensure our daughters accept their status as females with good humor, grace and poise and we don’t spoil them by sparing the rod, like some more progressive folks do,” she admitted.
Melanie rushed down the stairs at that moment, tits out in a skirt and heels. “I came fast, Mama! Don’t spank my bottom!” she begged before even noticing the rolling camera and the two strange men in her living room.
Lucky turned the camera’s attention to the girl and she initially blushed in shock when she saw the camera rolling because her tits were already out. Melanie instinctively placed her hands over her huge pumpkin shaped tits to cover her modesty.
“Mister Neff?” she immediately recognized her art teacher from school. “I thought a boy was calling on me.”
“Why on earth would I tell you to come down here with your tits out if a boy was here to take you out on a date?”
“You taught me to never question you or daddy. I just do what you tell me, and that prevents my bottom from turning red.”
She still wasn’t sure why her instructor from the college she attended was in her living room.
“That is a very sensible policy, Melanie,” Ian said. He offered her a reassuring, professional smile as he made a quick note on his pad about specimen #1 Melanie Carter – Melons Melanie.
“I wish more young ladies would adopt it. Immediate compliance is the hallmark of a well-behaved daughter and a good future wife. There is no need for alarm. Your mother and I are simply conducting the opening field interview for the Academy’s new instructional series, and you were chosen as our first specimen.”
“Spess-a-men?” Melanie was lovely, had incredible tits, but she was as dumb even for most girls her age.
“Not men,” Ian smiled, and happily explained that Melanie had been chosen for her bright demeanor, cheerful attitude and obedient nature as an example of a Girl Wonder to serve as role model as part of an instructional series for other young ladies on how to advance from Girlfailures to Girl Wonders.
“Gosh! It wasn’t because of my huge tits?” she held her hands cupped over them. She was known around the campus as Melons Melanie for a reason and it wasn’t because she liked cantaloupe so much.
“Melanie, I am going to wash your mouth out with soap after you finish this interview!” her mother said.
“Sorry, Mommy,” she pouted.
“Now, take your hands off your bubbly-wubblies. They obviously came all this way to see them. The least you can do is stop acting like it costs five dollars a peep to get a gander like some freak-show hussy at the Circus.”
Melanie reluctantly removed her hands from her massive tits and blushed. They were enormous and majestic knockers perfectly buoyant and her tiny waist only made those buttery upraised nipples, and milky natural jugs look that much more impressive.
“Your titties are perfectly symmetrical,” Mr. Neff had seen plenty of tits during his lifetime and he enjoyed big ones, little ones, imperfect saggy ones, but nothing had prepared him for Melanie Carter’s exquisite sweater stuffers.
“Hubba Bubba,” Lucky exclaimed from behind the camera. “Those bazooms are out of sight, like the fins of a 1958 Buick Skylark. They go on and on for miles!”
Author's note: I'll probably put illustrations at the end, but you had to see these tits to get this story.
Melanie’s smile was as effervescent as her tits were wonderous. She brightened but Lucky and Ian’s eyes were locked on those stiff pink nipples jutting out from the tips of the pretty young lady’s tits.
“An instructional series, Mr. Neff?” Melanie asked with curiosity as she stood there with her tits exposed and wondered aloud “I can’t teach any girls to have tits like mine, and I wouldn’t want that anyway. How would I be special with my knockers?” Her voice held a sweet, melodic register for greeting guests.
Melanie kneaded her breasts with her hands under the boob and lifted slightly to show how heavy they were to the camera.
“Melanie Carter. The good Lord granted you big tits like mine. You did nothing special to earn those except eat us out of house and home. You are certainly no more special than any other girl just because your balloons hold more air,” Belinda was ready to paddle her daughter and the only restraint that prevented it was she wanted to project decorum for her house guests.
“I would politely disagree, Madam,” Ian interjected. “Melanie exhibits a positive attitude, and a serene attitude even though we are clearly admiring your daughter’s breasts and filming them for the entire world to one day admire. She came down the stairs with tits out without knowing if it would be a gentleman caller, the doctor come to give her an enema, or a camera crew here to film her bosoms. Many female specimens would have expected some modicum of warning before being exposed in that manner.”
Melanie hadn’t fully registered that literally everyone in the world would be able to look at her tits for generations to come if the film were to go into circulation. That meant that many of the boys she flirted with could watch the film rather than take her on a date for a chance to look at what she had under her shirt.
She began to pout and started to put her hands over her nipples slowly.
“Melanie Carter! Don’t you dare cover those tits up until Mr. Neff and his cameraman are finished with you!” her mother chastised her. “You know the M.O.M., protocol, don’t you?”
“Sorry, Mom!” Her hands fled to her sides, and she began to blush furiously. “Yes, I know it, but I don’t remember what it stands for.”
“How can you forget that? It’s literally why they call mothers a mom. It’s our duty to teach you that you must obey men, young lady!”
Belinda didn’t have high hopes for Melanie ever going to a university and her grades were poor. She’d forget this acronym in a few days again and it would have to be spanked right back into her memory. “I swear, it’s like you almost enjoy being spanked and punished, sometimes.”
The Carter family didn’t see punishment as abuse. It was just a natural thing that loving parents did when raising naughty girls to help them remain less naughty and learn to behave themselves. It was as natural to them as changing diapers or teaching them to read a book.
The girls of the family weren’t rebels and didn’t feel singled out, because all the other girls in school were treated pretty much the same way at home and at school.
The notion that the reason mothers had been called mom was a regional myth like the Jersey Devil or Sasquatch and it had only recently entered the Peach Valley zeitgeist in the last twenty years that the etymology of mom being short for mother was related to that acronym.
M.O.M. was actually a slogan that came out of a local theme park (Fort Gilead) back in the 1930s as part of a marketing campaign for their idea of domestic bliss and a harmonious home that caught on so well in the area.
“Do you need to see Melanie remove anything else?” Belinda offered graciously like her daughter’s tits were Halloween Candy and Mr. Neff was the first trick or treater of the evening.
“Not at the moment,” Ian politely replied.
“Stand up straight, shoulder’s back, nose up, chin up, tits up, and out, Good girl,” Belinda added crisply before explaining she was once a WAC in the Navy and she was used to giving orders. “If you are going to stand with your tits out, you may as well stand up straight and not slouch.”
“Yes, Mom,” Melanie pouted. “I just don’t want to look foolish on the screen.”
“You’ll look a whole lot more foolish with your panties around your ankles, bent over with a paddle to the bare bottom while you finish this interview, won’t you?” Mrs. Carter offered in a firm, loving but strict manner that meant no nonsense would be tolerated from her daughter.
Ian continued the interview, and wondered if he’d cut that interaction or leave it in the film for authenticity. He adjusted his horn-rimmed glasses, glanced at his notebook and asked his next question.
“What would you say is the best thing about having such wonderful tits?” he asked her as he stared at how pointy they were.
Melanie couldn’t resist blushing and smiling over a compliment. It was one of the few times that she loved to blush. “Obviously, that it is easier for me to get boys to call on me for a date on Saturday nights,” she put her finger in her mouth and sucked on the tip to think.
“Melanie Carter! Finger out of your mouth or I’ll have you stick that somewhere that you won’t particularly enjoy right here and now!” her mother insisted.
Melanie removed her finger with spit still dripping from the tip and brought them to her side crisply but continued to have a dumb expression on her face.
“Do you know what part of your body I am talking about, Melanie?” her mother asked dourly. She was unconvinced her daughter understood the warning she had been given.
“In my bottom?” Her daughter dragged out the words in disgust, as her lips curled in disgust. She dreaded even discussing her bottom, much less having it become a subject of this documentary.
“That’s exactly right! Just be thankful the camera was rolling or I might not have been so understanding this time!”
Mrs. Carter glanced at Ian and silently nodded for him to continue his questions, while Melanie stood in the living room with her tits out for the camera.
“I am curious if you lack modesty about your chest, why did you make that face when your mother mentioned your bottom?” Ian continued.
“The best thing about having big tits is that it keeps the boys’ eyes off of my fat bottom!” Melanie admitted jokingly with a bright grin.
“So, you’d be embarrassed if you were told to show us your butt?” Ian probed further.
“Even though I am proud that I have big tits, I am still embarrassed that I have to expose my tits on film and show them to you. I’d be really embarrassed if I was told I had to stick my bare bottom out because that means I am about to get punished for something.”
“Is that the only reason you’d have modesty when it comes to exposing your butt?” Ian asked.
Melanie resisted the pressing urge to put her finger in her mouth and thought for a moment while a vacant expression grew across her face. “My butt is stinky and fat, and I doubt anyone wants to see two chubby cheeks with a dirty pink hole in the center.”
“You don’t have modesty when it comes to your mouth, Melanie,” Ian countered. At first, Melanie didn’t see why that mattered until he added “You have two big cheeks on either side, and a pink hole in the center you keep putting your finger in. I am sure you’ve had bad breath many times before. Do you insist on hiding your mouth?”
“I can’t do much about hiding my mouth,” she chuckled with amusement as she realized the similarities between both holes on her body. “One is an entrance for food, and the other is an exit only.”
Ian was about to explain how a lady’s butt can be used for other things (for educational purposes) but Mrs. Carter interjected. “We teach our daughters that ladies’ bottoms are intended for three things. Melanie, tell the viewers what those are.”
“Sitting,” she held up one finger and her pretty brown eyes darted upward and to the side as if she were looking for the information. “Pooping,” she held up a second finger, and “to punish us when we need it.”
“There is a fourth use,” Eddie grinned and said that would be for another documentary in the future before changing the topic. “Now, Melanie,” Ian asked in a detached, clinical manner. “Your mother mentioned a moment ago that you possess a rather significant physical development for a girl your age. Specifically, your sizable breasts. When you rushed down the stairs just now, you instinctively attempted to cover them with your hands. Tell our audience about that reaction.”
Melanie was dumbfounded. It was a natural state for her, and she wasn’t sure how to respond other than for her face to turn a darker shade of crimson as she resisted the urge to cover her tits from the camera’s eye.
“I was just being silly, I guess. Mama said to come downstairs tits out, and I thought there would be a suitor waiting to call on me here, or something.”
“Do many boys call on you?”
“Um, well, how many is too many?” she shifted her weight and tried to count the guys she was currently juggling on her social calendar.
It was at that point, three rowdy young men walked in the door, talking and laughing.
“Mom, please tell Calvin he can’t have his friends here during my interview!” the sweet, submissive, innocent bimbo-like face disappeared and was replaced with a vindictive older sister that was angry her limelight was being invaded.
“What’s going on?” Calvin and his friends made a bee-line straight for where his sister was. He’d seen her tits before many times around the house, but his friends hadn’t.
“Whoa, Melanie really does have Melons,” his best friend Larry noted.
She pouted but felt like she had no other choice than to stand there and let them ogle her. “Well, go on and get your good look at them!” she frowned.
“Can you jiggle them?” Larry pantomimed a stripper spinning her tits one at a time by wiggling his hips lewdly.
Ian waited patiently. This was classic sibling rivalry, and he thought it may make a great b-roll for the film.
“Calvin, can you and your friends tease your sister later after Mr. Neff has finished with her?” Belinda had a typical “Boys will be boys” attitude like most women did back then. She knew siblings liked to tease each other out of love and like rain it was bound to happen. She just preferred it to rain when they didn’t have guests.
“Hiya, Mister Neff! I can’t wait to be in your class one day! Calvin Carter, Color Sergeant, Valor Company of the Fort Gilead Gallant Patrol,” he saluted crispy and his friends clicked their heels and followed suit.
Calvin and his friends were dressed in mock confederate uniforms and had just come from the local meeting of their chapter of Gallant Scouts. The Boy Scouts had never caught on in Peach Valley, because of the competing local organization sponsored by the local theme park at Fort Gilead.
“It’s a pleasure to make your acquaintance,” Ian returned the salute and said that he’d rather film Melanie in a typical interaction with her siblings.
Melanie sighed with exasperation as she turned beet red. She felt completely humiliated she had to stand there with her hands down at her sides while these grinning twerps stared at her boobs fluttering and bouncing slightly on their own.
“Go on and jiggle them for your brother’s friends so they can get upstairs and change before supper,” Belinda insisted impatiently. She wasn’t happy about Calvin barging in but she wasn’t going to go against a male guest.
Melanie half-heartedly jiggled both as she offered a sweet, helpless look and bounced on her heels.
“Aww, that’s nothing! Let’s see you jiggle them one at a time like the Egyptian snake lady that dances down at the Circus peep show.”
Today’s standards would have found it scandalous but at family venues in the 1950s and 60s, there were plenty of scantily clad tattooed ladies performing odd dances and entertaining tricks in peep shows that cost a dime or a nickel to watch. No one cared who you were, if you had a dime or a nickel you could watch if you were so inclined to do so.
“I’ll try,” she said helplessly as she jiggled her left hip and bounced a single breast. She was amazed she could almost do it but the other one quickly began to move at the same time. “I can’t do it!” she admitted while knotting her brow and looking pathetic.
“You know what they say, sis!” Calvin pointed at his sister, narrowly avoiding tapping her stiff nipples. “If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, again!”
Melanie rolled her eyes and looked at her mother for guidance, and in the hope that she’d put her foot down with Calvin to insist he leave her alone. Much like her mother, she also believed boys will be boys and assumed that his annoying teasing was just part of the deal when you were a big sister.
“Ah, are you a student of William Edward Hickson, Mister Carter?” Ian asked in an erudite manner like someone recognizing another scholar.
“Does he teach Science or English?” Calvin asked, while his friends chuckled at his sister’s humiliated state.
“I am afraid, neither. He’s quite dead. The only reason that I know this bit of trivia is that the quote from his work in “The Singing Master” was cited by Thomas Palmer in the Teacher’s Manual that was part of my studies.”
“I prefer the quote by W.C. Fields, who said that if you can’t succeed, there is no point in looking like a damn fool about it,” Lucky made a wisecrack from behind the camera.
“So, are you gonna try, or cry, Sis?” Calvin was a clever lad, and Ian hoped he’d be in his class next term.
“I can’t jiggle just one boob, Calvin. I am not made that way,” she pouted and blushed in consternation.
“You sound like a Girlfailure when you quit before you even try,” Ian lectured his student. “A Girlwonder will develop a peachy talent and practice until she can achieve success!”
Girlfailure and Girlwonder wasn’t part of the common vernacular, but they were part of Ian’s documentary and their meanings were obvious. Girlfailures exhibited the base and unacceptable qualities of female-kind and Girlwonders were what all girls should strive to be.
“I don’t know what any of that means, Mr. Neff, “she admitted with a sad regretful whine. “Was this in the homework you gave us?”
“It is your homework now, Melanie,” Ian decided. “I would like you to consider developing a Peachy Talent to show off those amazing tits of yours by jiggling one at a time and spinning them. I’ve seen women do it and I know it’s possible. Do you know the difference between a beginning musician and an expert?”
“No, Sir,” Melanie begged for pity with a defeated look on her face.
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“5,000 hours of practice,” Ian answered and while it sounded like a joke it was the truth that even the most natural player had to practice technique and behavior to get better.
Melanie dropped her chin and pouted, as she tried to imagine 5,000 hours of jiggling her tits.
“Chin up! Look Mister Neff in the eye when he is speaking to you,” Arthur Carter entered the room wearing an off-white suit that he changed into after he got home from work. He was an imposing man, clean shaven with a square jaw and a little grey at his temples.
The entire room instantly shifted gears to accommodate his arrival. Calvin and his friends snapped to a rigid, respectful salute, while Mrs. Carter immediately smoothed her apron and checked her hair in the mirror, her face lighting up with a welcoming smile. “Shall I get your newspaper, scotch and the sports page for you, dear?”
“Not at the moment,” he held up his hand to his wife and asked why everyone was standing around his daughter’s bare chest.
Ian offered his hand and introduced himself, and Lucky did the same.
“Your daughter was selected to be a subject in our documentary on Girlfailures and Girlwonders,” Ian explained.
“Well, I know the girl is as dumb as a box of rocks, and she has an annoying tone to her voice, but there is no reason to hold her up to ridicule in a documentary is there?” he asked. The admission sent ripples of embarrassment down his daughter’s spine.
“There is no reason to make that face, Melanie. Your mother and I have discussed your shortcomings many times, and we still love you as much as any of our kids!” he added.
“Actually, Melanie was chosen as a Girlwonder because despite her lack of academic knowledge, she’s known for her chipper, positive attitude and obedience at the academy. We seldom have to discipline her, and when her mother called her downstairs topless, she didn’t hesitate to obey.”
“Well, I should hope not,” Arthur looked at his daughter and didn’t see a sexual being. He saw a girl and girls didn’t need modesty. “A girl needs to learn to obey her parents, so she will be trained to obey her husband after marriage. If we told her to walk out bare bottomed and ready for a spanking there should be no talking back, just compliance.”
Arthur wasn’t arguing, raising his voice, or saying anything scandalous. He was talking like a responsible dog owner would about teaching their puppy not to beg for scraps at the table or pull on the leash when going for a walk.
“Melanie has been a delight, Mister Carter,” Ian expressed his gratitude and said that she’s been very obedient and answered his questions fully as he asked them.
“Well, then I am quite proud of you, Melanie,” her father offered stoically. Melanie preened like a dutiful daughter and her mother felt a sense of pride washing over her because the compliment meant that she had been raising her daughter properly.
“I don’t want to cut into your supper time, but I’d like to continue to speak with your daughter and finish the interview. Do you mind if we come back to film tomorrow?”
“You are welcome to stay for dinner,” Arthur offered graciously. “You can ask my daughter anything you like, or anyone else in the household for that matter.”
His wife swallowed hard because Belinda had not prepared enough food for two additional men to join them. Her mind instantly sprang into action trying to develop a plan around seating and how to plate the food for additional guests.
“If it won’t be any bother,” Ian asked politely. He knew that was simply a formality and that Arthur wasn’t the type to change his mind and be wishy washy about an invitation to dinner.
“May I be excused to start the preparations, dear?” Mrs. Carter asked her husband politely.
“Do you need my wife for anything?” he asked Ian.
“I am sure we could interview her after dinner if we do,” Ian smiled.
“You are excused, Belinda,” he dismissed his wife and watched her cute butt as she scurried into the kitchen. That was her domain and he had his world, and she had hers. He didn’t try to micromanage his wife in the kitchen and wouldn’t unless she needed it.
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