"You're not going out like that?"
It was a question, not a statement. At thirty-one, my daughter was too old for me to make any demands. Those days were long over. I couldn't ground her and send her to her room, but the short skirt and precipitous cleavage brought out the old-school dad within.
Belligerent as I remembered her being when she was still subject to my rules, she looked at me and said, "I am."
I was on the back foot by then. I knew I had no authority but still had to try. "That skirt's a bit short," I said.
Jemima nodded. "Yeah, dad, I know."
Emotions swirled inside me. I was torn by what I saw as paternal responsibility to take of my daughter and the pride I felt because of her beauty. Plus, while I tried to deny it, there was also a prickle of something dark and clandestine, a nasty little snicker at the back of my mind.
"Sorry," I said. "I'm just old-fashioned."
Jemima's expression softened. She lost the ferocious look as she sighed, slowly shaking her head. "And you're my dad."
I pulled a face. "Always," I said.
Jemima walked towards me, all bare thighs and high heels. We were in the living room. It was her flat. I was staying for a few days. My eyes went to her legs when she sat down on the sofa next to me.
"I'm a grown-up," she said, a hand on my thigh.
The furtive prickle turned to a thrill of something I recognised as desire when my daughter touched me. Of their own accord, my eyes went to her breasts, the rounded inner flanks drawing my focus. Then, in response to the sight of her tanned flesh, my cock thickened and grew.
"This is how I dress when I go out," my Jemima continued.
"But you're showing everything off," I said, shocked by the need I heard in my tone.
"Maybe I like to show off," my daughter informed me. "Maybe I like attention."
It felt like the air between us crackled and fizzed while I gawked at Jemima. But you're gorgeous," I said, sighing it out. "Surely you don't have to put it all out there like this?"
Jemima smiled, the expression something close to pity as she looked at my face. "You're sweet," she said, "but I'm a grown woman."
My daughter paused and took her hand away from my leg.
"I have appetites, daddy," Jemima went on, eyes on the floor. "I know you probably don't want to hear it, but I have certain likes when it comes to sex."
Sensations curdled in the pit of my stomach when I heard her say it and, both thrilled and disgusted, I asked, "You do?"
My daughter stared at me; her gaze intense. "You don't want to know," she breathed, after a pause.
I didn't mean to, but my focus went to the deep crease between her breasts.
Jemima shifted her rump against the sofa before she murmured, "What are you looking at, dad?"
The heat rose in my face. I gulped, my attention going up to Jemima's face. "Nothing," I said, knowing she wouldn't believe me.
A chasm of yearning yawned within me when my daughter sighed and whispered, "Yes you were. You were looking at my tits."
Humiliation descended. "God, no, I wasn't, Jemima," I croaked.
My daughter laughed, the sound somewhere between amusement and derision. "Come of it," she said, "I know when a bloke's looking at my boobs."
I floundered, unsure of what I was feeling. "I wasn't looking at you like that," I said. "I was just looking."
Then, in a pivotal, life-changing moment, my daughter paused for a second or two, going on to say, "You can look if you want to. I told you. I like attention."
Appalled, I digested what she'd just said, gasping out, "But I'm your father, Jemima."
"And you're a man."
She was moving as, appalled, I said, "What do you mean by that?"
"I don't mind you looking," my daughter said on a sigh. "In fact," she added, thrusting her frontage at me, "you can touch if you want to."
My world slipped away as I stared at my daughter. It was an unbelievable time. Surreal. I was sure I'd misheard what she'd said. It couldn't be real.
"Jemima, what...?"
"God, please don't reject me," my daughter said through a whisper. Her eyes were wide, lips apart, fear in her eyes. "I feel so stupid."
Something burst inside me and I felt a sudden and savage rush of lust for the beautiful woman with the lush, ripe curves.
"Touch you?" I breathed.
I saw how unsure she was as Jemima nodded and stammered, "If ... If you want to."
My hands went to her breasts, their weight and spongy-firm texture a shock.
"I want you to kiss me," my daughter said through a groan.
My cock swelled to full tumescence when I hear it come from her mouth.
In a crazy, impossible action, I grabbed at my daughter, pulling her in, my mouth over hers. She groaned and wriggled until she could get a leg over my thighs. After that, as we snuffled and gasped, tongues swirling, we kissed, with Jemima managing to get her skirt up past her hips, her thighs straddling mine.
As the kiss went on, the passion rising between us, I mauled at Jemima's breasts.
"Get them out," she moaned as she levered upright. "Here, I don't care about the fucking blouse. Rip it off me. Just help me get out of my clothes." As she gasped out the words, my daughter yanked at the blouse. The buttons popped free, one flicking against my cheek as Jemima let out a snarl, the sound all about her arousal.