All Characters In This Story Are 18+ Years Old
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Tuesday, November 3, 1992 Palm Springs and Cathedral City, CA
At 8 a.m. Dr. William Carter grinned at this lathered reflection in the hotel bathroom mirror. He casually swished his Gillette safety razor in the warm slurry in the basin, then resumed gliding the double edges over his stubble. The process, so effortless and habituated after 50-odd years, left him free to think back and remember yesterday afternoon.
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On the drive back to La Familia from the cemetery, Mari mentioned the restaurant would be closed, as usual, Tuesday and there would be a small, family, fiesta at the Guerrero home in Cathedral City. Mari would tell her husband, Eduardo, tonight about her discovered father before luring him, for the first time in 10 years, into drunken sex-play, to cover her hoped for pregnancy by Carter. Carter asked could he give the news to Luz early and Mari had agreed. They sealed their new father-daughter-lover pact with a light kiss in the Taurus behind the the cantina and then parted. Carter enjoyed a final flash of Mari's cleavage as she had turned, poked her shoulders back in the car and said, "Hasta manana, Papa!"
Carter returned to the hotel, showered, changed into fresh slacks and a non-cum-stained polo shirt, then drove back to Palm Springs to properly introduce himself to his newfound granddaughter. He had not sat long in the car when he saw Luz moving along the sidewalk toward her apartment. She held two paper grocery sacks against her chest and her purse bounced on her right hip with each step.
Carter hustled across the pink gravel and intercepted Luz a few steps from the door to #6. "Luz!" he said, with a rush, reaching out his arms, "Let me help you with those!" Not accepting a refusal, Carter pulled the sacks to himself as her hands naturally gave way.
"Senor Bill!" Luz cried in surprise. "Que pasa? Por que...?" she stared, her open face displaying her wonder at Carter's sudden appearance.
"Luz," Carter began, calmly with a broad smile, "I thought your mom told you she had asked me to take her to the cemetery today?"
"Si... pero... "
"Well, when we were there, we learned something... "
"I just came from there, myself," Luz continued, overriding Carter's words, "I didn't see you."
"We must have just missed you, then," Carter concluded. "Open up and invite me in. We have important things to discuss." Carter's voice, though temperate, was commanding and Luz felt oddly compelled to obey.
Carter's eyes drank in Luz as, still flustered, she rummaged in her purse and fumbled her keys in the doorlock. She was dressed in regular street clothes. Her tight, shrunken Levi's clung to her legs, disappearing into soft, tall, tan high-heeled cowboy boots. As she bent over the lock, her snap-front, green plaid western-styled shirt billowed at her chest, giving a glimpse of her swelling breast tops in a lace-trimmed red bra.
Composing herself as she turned the key, Luz turned her face to Carter, smiled warmly and said, "Of course, Senor Bill, please come inside."
"Again?" thought Carter, smirking internally, "Where else?" Out loud, he said, "Thanks, Luz." Stepping over the threshold into her, now familiar, studio apartment, he added, "I'll set the groceries here on the counter. Anything in here for the refrigerator or freezer?" he asked, keeping his excitement in check.
"No," Luz replied, closing the door and bending at the waist to the floor. As she scratched Pablo, her purring grey cat, rolling at her feet, Luz looked at Carter under her outstretched arm. "It's just tortillas, cat food and some supplies. They can wait there for me to put away later."
Carter inhaled sharply as he viewed Luz' round denim-wrapped ass and the taut muscles on the backs of her thighs. "Easy does it, William," he cautioned himself, "Think how you want this to be." Stepping out of the kitchenette into the main room, Carter moved toward Luz. "Ola Pablo, como esta?" he asked easily as he stooped beside the girl and ran his left hand over the cat's furry side.
Luz grinned widely. "I remember now how much you liked my pussy," she said softly, "It was a sign for me." She straightened up and Carter found his chin inches away from the camel-toe in the crotch of Luz' Levi's.
Standing erect himself, Carter put his hands on Luz' shoulder points, looked straight into her dark liquid eyes and said, "And for me, too, Luz." He lightly rubbed her upper arms and continued, "Your mother showed me something today which will change our worlds..."
"Que?" Luz became concerned by the sudden serious look in the old gentleman's face.
"... Your mom is... " Carter hesitated, inhaling Luz' sandlewood perfume in a single deep breath, "my... unknown daughter." He exhaled slowly on the last syllable.