Taboo The Collection (14 page)

He’d grown up in Massachusetts,
which was where he’d met his future wife at a local coffee house, while he was spending the summer teaching college courses and she was visiting relatives. It turned out she’d been licking her wounds after her marriage breakup, and the courtship had been a whirlwind affair. He’d fallen for her hard, so hard he’d given up his teaching position, found work doing editing from home, and had married her and moved to Texas, all without ever even meeting her teenage daughter or seeing their new home.

Christa had been shocked when she arrived home from a summer at her father’s in California to find a new man living in her house. He couldn’t blame the kid. He could hardly believe it himself. Both his mother and his sister had railed against his decision, but he wouldn’t hear any of it. Rachel was the one. He’d been looking for someone like her his whole life, had remained unmarried, if not unattached, waiting for the right woman to walk into his life, and she finally had. The first time he saw her, that china doll face, her blonde hair, like an angel, the sweetest vision of his life, he just knew.

And then he’d met his new stepdaughter.

Jim quickly inserted the key so he could turn on the air conditioning. Images from the play he’d written soon after meeting his new stepdaughter ran through his head on a loop, all bright and sultry and hot. He’d written a good play, and the audience had shown their appreciation with two curtain calls, where a Lolita-type affair ended rather happily, instead of in tragedy, although the girl in question was, of course, of legal age.
Lolita couldn’t be published in today’s politically correct climate,
he thought, flipping the vent up so it blew directly on his flushed face. He was drunk. Far too drunk to drive.

The thought of climbing into the backseat and sleeping it off occurred to him just at the same moment that Christa’s tousled blond head popped up between the seats behind him, like something from a horror movie. He yelped—giving himself credit for not screaming outright like a girl—and twisted around to look at her.

“What in the hell are you doing here?”

She rubbed her sleepy eyes and yawned. “I came to see your play.”

“How did you—?” But of course he knew. His argument with Rachel hadn’t been quiet. Christa had overheard them. “…get here?” He finished his sentence differently than it had started out, watching, bemused, as Christa began to climb through the seats to the front. She tossed a pair of heels over first and then slid a slender, pale thigh through the narrow opening between the seats, wiggling her way through, climbing over the console.

“Ashley came with me.” Christa rolled her eyes at his shocked expression, settling herself into the passenger seat. “Don’t worry I didn’t tell her it was
your
play. I told her I was meeting a boy.” Christa turned toward him in the dimness, the circle of a streetlight making her eyes gleam. “She thought it was
totally
perverted, by the way.”

Jim felt heat creeping into his cheeks. “And what did you think?”

“I thought it was fucking hot.” She grinned, propping her bare foot up on the seat, fully facing him now, unladylike in her dress, letting her slim thighs part, giving him a view of her panties. The dress was an elegant little black number, but her panties were plain white cotton. Her mother bought them for her, he knew. They were exactly Rachel’s taste.

“Christa!” He was very glad for the darkness, both because of the redness of his face and because of, god help him, the erection beginning to tent his trousers.

“What?” She laughed as he reached for the gearshift, making the car lurch as he pulled out of the parking lot. “Isn’t that what you wanted? For people to get off? That girl went around in her underwear for half the play! Why did you name her Crystal?”

“I liked the name.” Jim shifted his Audi into a higher gear as he merged onto the highway. He liked driving a stick-shift, liked the control it gave him. He was careful to observe all posted speed limits.

“Uh-huh.” Christa laughed again, soft and knowing. She fished her purse from the back, and Jim couldn’t help glancing over as she did, her skirt riding high up her thighs, revealing the tender, rounded curve of her ass under those cotton panties, the stretch of her tendons behind the knee, bare pink-painted toes curled against the dashboard as she reached and panted, searching the backseat.

“Found it!” she announced, plopping back into her seat, both feet up on the dash now. “Sorry I didn’t tell you I was coming, but I felt bad when Mom said she wouldn’t. I thought one of us should show up and support you.”

“Well…” How could he fault her? In fact, he was proud and pleased she’d shown up. He glanced over as she fished a pack of gum out of her purse, unwrapping two and stuffing them into her mouth. She crumbled the little foil wrappers and dropped them onto the floor, much to his chagrin. “Thanks. You could have let me know you were here. I would have invited you backstage.”

“Nah.” Christa blew a quick bubble and snapped her gum, flipping on the radio. “Ashley wanted to go to the new teen nightclub in Houston, but I told her I was meeting someone, so I made her go without me.” She blew another bubble, bigger, held it longer this time, her pink tongue searching, stabbing through the sticky mass and popping it as she turned the radio dial. “Besides, I wanted to surprise you.”

“Well, you sure did.” His knack for understatement had never been so pronounced.

She grinned, settling on some pop station he didn’t recognize, her sideways look both knowing and a little shy. “The good kind?”

“Yes, sweetheart.” He reached over to pat her hand, which was resting on the rise of her pale knee, hoping it came across as a fatherly sort of thing, rather than the lecherous creeper he was feeling like. The argument going on in his head was one any psychiatrist worth their degree would love to be privy to. He was thinking thoughts he knew he shouldn’t let himself ponder. He was too drunk, too high on the night’s performance, and still too dejected by his wife’s rejection, to keep his thoughts at bay tonight. “It’s probably not the sort of play your mother would want you watching, but I appreciate the support. I truly do.”

“Meh.” His stepdaughter rolled her eyes, tapping her feet in time to the song’s beat on the dash. “We both know she’s a prude.”

“Christa…” He admonished her, but he felt her words more than heard them, a stab in his gut. Rachel hadn’t always been like that, he reasoned. When they’d met, she’d been a little reserved, yes, had liked to make love (and called it making love, not having sex, never “fucking”) in the dark. So she always liked him on top, so what? It felt just as good that way, didn’t it?

When had they stopped having sex? He couldn’t remember. Three months ago? Four?
Just before I’d sold my play,
he thought. Just before he’d begun to really take notice of his stepdaughter prancing around the house in sheer baby doll nighties, undressing with her door open, teasing him about not shaving by rubbing her cheek against his in the morning like a cat looking for attention.

“Not like Ashley’s mom.” Christa glanced over at him, smirking, and then repeated her earlier performance, mimicking Ashley’s lusty mother. “
Ohhhh yeah, baby, stick that big fucking dick in me! Pound my pussy! Do it hard, make me feel it! Make me come all over your
—”

“Christa!” His cock was throbbing. Thank god their street was a dead-end road with few streetlights. He turned down it, seeking an even deeper darkness.

“Oh come on, Dad.” She laughed, a light, breathy sound. “Those two were practically fucking on stage. They talked dirtier than that. And
you wrote about it
.”

He couldn’t deny it. “It was an adult play. You really shouldn’t have come.”

“I’m an adult.”

“Barely.” He pulled into their driveway and cut the engine, feeling both relieved and let down at the same time.

“Old enough,” she countered, turning toward him in the dark. Rachel hadn’t left any lights on, inside the house or out. “How old was Crystal? Twenty? And Ben—he was, what forty-something? They were both consenting adults. Right?”

“It’s fiction, honey.” He took a deep breath, running a trembling hand through his hair. The engine ticked as it cooled, and the air in the car was already warming. “It’s a play. It wasn’t real.”

“But it could be.” Christa’s words surprised him, but what surprised him more was the way she crawled toward him, across the gearshift, practically straddling it so she could press her mouth to his ear and whisper, “What if I want it to be?”

“Uhh… no… honey…” His cock didn’t agree with him, not in the least, but he wasn’t going to have that argument, not here, not ever. Fiction was fiction. This was reality, and this was very, very wrong. Even drunk as he was, he knew that much.

He could smell her gum—juicy, fruity.

“I know you watch me.” Her words jolted him, literally, his body like a livewire. But she didn’t relent. His reaction seemed to feed her intent. “I know you have a pair of my panties in your desk.”

He groaned, shaking his head, closing his eyes, trying to deny it—but it was true. They were pink, one of the few colored panties she owned, and he’d masturbated with his face buried in the crotch more times than he could count.

“I know you think about me when you jerk off in the shower.” His stepdaughter licked her lips. He heard it more than saw it, the gentle click of her tongue moving from the roof of her mouth to trace the plump path of her bottom lip. “Do you think I come in to pee by accident? Do you think I don’t know you’re looking?”

Oh he looked. The sound of her voiding was enough to make his cock stand at attention, but it wasn’t enough. He had to peek around the curtain and watch her reach behind—a good girl, wiping front to back, just like her mother taught her—wiggling on the seat, lifting her bottom a little, her tiny breasts almost visible under her tank-tee as she bent forward like that. He had splashed the shower tiles with his cum, loads of it, imagining her bent over like that in front of him, her behind rising up like an offering.

“I know it was about me.” Christa’s lips, sticky from her gum, touched his earlobe, and he felt her palm pressed between his knees on the seat, balancing herself. “I knew it the minute she came out on stage, the things she said and did. Thank god my mother didn’t see it. Do you think she wouldn’t recognize me?”

Would Rachel have recognized her daughter, fictionalized up there on stage for the world to see, seducing an older man who just happened to be her stepfather? She might have, he realized, with dawning horror. And then what?

“No, Christa,” he said, his voice unbearably hoarse. “You have the wrong idea…”

“Oh no, I don’t.” Her hand moved, oh god, it moved up between his thighs, and he shifted in the seat, trying to hide the proof of his arousal. “I have the very right idea. The
perfect
idea.”

“No,” he whispered, but he barely heard himself. Her hand cupped him, rubbing deliciously as her mouth sought his. He couldn’t resist, he simply couldn’t. The soft press of her little body, the way she searched for his zipper, her sweet tongue licking at his lips, asking for entrance. He knew very well he should say no, he should stop her, act horrified and appalled at her actions, but he wasn’t.

He was beyond excited.

“Oh Daddy, you’re so hard,” she breathed, and he tasted her gum, smelled it, sweet and fruity. Her lips were sticky against his. His zipper was down now, and she’d found him, thick and swollen. Her fingers played him, up and down, dancing lightly over the sensitive head.

“Sweetheart.” He tried. He made an effort. But he couldn’t manage anything else. He swallowed and heard his throat click. That was all.

“Oh I’m so wet,” she confessed, squeezing him in her little hand. Oh god. She wasn’t the only one. He felt pre-cum leaking from the head of his cock already. “Let me suck you. Oh Daddy, please, let me suck your cock.”

He didn’t answer her. He didn’t have to. The way his cock jumped in her hand was answer enough for her. She fished her gum out and pressed it with her thumb to the top of the steering wheel, grinning at him in the darkness before bending her head down toward his lap. He both loved and hated the darkness. He wanted to watch, see her mouth open for his cock, see her eyes looking up at him, but he was glad she couldn’t see the look in his face. He was sure it was a twisted, horrible picture of lust.

“Oooooohhh fuck,” he groaned, finding his voice as she slipped the head of his cock between her velvety lips. She made the sweetest noises, moaning and mewing as she took his length, the wet press of her tongue so delicious he almost felt like he was going to pass out. He dared to touch her, to stroke her hair, silky soft, falling over his arm as his hand moved over her bare shoulder. Her dress was dark with spaghetti straps, a sharp contrast to her pale skin.

“Mmmm!” Christa came up on his cock, the head popping thickly, wetly out of her mouth, and she tilted her head to look up at him. “I’m so fucking wet. I have to play with my pussy!”

He nodded—as if she needed his permission—her words forcing more pre-cum from the tip of his cock. He hadn’t been this excited since he was a kid in high school. To be honest, he’d probably never been this excited. Christa leaned in across the console, balancing with only one hand now, the other one pulling up her dress. He saw the flash of her white panties, and then he heard the most arousing sound of his life—the wet squelch of her fingers as she fucked herself.