You can be shocked if you want, but you don't know Melissa. Maybe you've seen a body as nice as hers, and maybe you've heard a voice as sexy—but heaven help you if you've experienced all that in combo with such hypnotic powers of persuasion and pure animal lust. Once we broke the taboo there was no turning back. I needed her desperately.
Her mother and I had been going through the motions for years. Anna lost interest in sex before I lost interest in her soft plump curves, and I took no joy in those nights when she did her wifely duty—mainly because that's exactly how she described it: doing her wifely duty.
Lying there faking a moan now and then seemed to me less like duty than charity.
Melissa sensed it when she came back home after her freshman year of college. "What the fuck?" she told me one afternoon when Anna was off showing a house. "Why bother staying married? Handsome guy like you needs a tiger, not a walrus."
"Honey, she's sensitive about her weight—there's no need for name-calling."
She spun my office chair around. "Daddy. I'm the tiger." And she pounced, straddling my lap and sucking my tongue into her mouth. I should have resisted but she was indeed a tiger, a taut, lithe, aggressive little sex machine, exactly the kind I fantasized about when thrusting into Anna. So, to Melissa's surprise, not only did I not resist, I took over. I pushed her t-shirt up, pulled her bra cups down, and began sucking and biting on my daughter's hard nipples. She was overjoyed. "Oh god oh god, I had no idea how you'd react," she laughed and moaned.
I slurped at those tight pink buds and worked my hands into her shorts. "How long have you been thinking about it?"
"Two nights. It never crossed my mind until I saw you try to kiss Mom and she turned her head away. It was like a bomb went off in my head and all of a sudden I realized that if you were one of my professors I'd be throwing myself at you."
"So your presence on the Dean's List—?"
"Perfectly legitimate," she said, smiling down at me. "There are pretty strict rules, you know."
"What are we going to do now?"
She pulled off her top. "What lovers do, naturally."
x x x
We spent the summer arranging our affair around Anna's real estate schedule. Arranging our affair, fucking like bunnies, call it what you will. We only came close to getting caught once, when we were in the den and Melissa squirted on my face just as her mother was coming in the front door. She got her pants up quickly and went to greet Anna in the living room; I rearranged my pants to hide my bone, but then a quick glance in the mirror showed I had moisture in my beard and on the collar of my gray polo shirt. I heard the women discussing the weather while I was changing.
Their relationship had been contentious from the time Melissa hit middle school, and while there was a certain détente now there were also long-standing grudges: Anna, jealous of her daughter's natural sex appeal and perfect body; Melissa, resentful of her mother's hovering, her overprotective nature, and the constant assumption of guilt. It was I who negotiated the peace treaty after Melissa called her mother a pig and left home to stay with friends for the better part of a month.
"I don't respect her," she admitted one day as she smeared my semen up and down her thighs. "I don't respect her because of the way she left you hanging. Studly 46-year-olds need regular pussy, so if I had ever found out you had a girlfriend on the side, I wouldn't have blamed you. Fuck that shit. You don't have a girlfriend on the side, though, do you?"
"Only you," I said, tilting her face toward mine.
"Sweet romantic Daddy," she sighed. Then she licked what was left of my goo off her fingers.
x x x
That summer there were a couple of news stories that gave me pause. One from somewhere down south, where a farmer was found to be keeping his wife and daughters as sex slaves—breeders, essentially—and selling his infant children/grandchildren on the black market. The other was from Michigan, where a sting operation caught a state representative in bed with her adult son. The taboo was in the news, and if anything it turned Melissa on even more. "We aren't trash like those people, Daddy. We're grownups in love."
"In love and unable to show it in public."
"We could move to somewhere where nobody knows us."
"What about your mother?"
"I'm working on that one. How do you feel about putting your foot down and saying 'Anna, you ignorant cow, I deserve a hot young girlfriend'?"
"I can't see it going over."
"Do you love her?"
"I don't want her hurt."
"I think that's unavoidable, Daddy. But I'm working on it."
So yes, the news stories gave me pause but Melissa gave me something far more visceral. I was enamored of her sexuality and she was impressed (and at times necessarily patient) with my stamina. Anna didn't seem to mind that I no longer pressed against her and erectly requested her wifely duty, and when Melissa returned to college for her sophomore year, we made a rule: Newsy emails from her regular school account, sexy missives from Hotmail. She was Daddysgirl382236 and I went with TigerLover6969. Her first choice, Daughterfucker, seemed like it might be a tad indiscreet. She also volunteered a rule of her own: "I'll understand if Miss Piggy decides she needs to get serviced, but I won't be sleeping with any boys."
In October I found Anna reading a novel called The Liberation of Mary. I only noticed because of the handcuffs and bright red lipstick prints on the cover, which didn't seem like Anna's cup of tea. "Have you heard of this series?" she asked, blushing a little. "They're best sellers, and they're—well, they're pretty frank about things."
"What kinds of things?" I smiled.
"Spankings and things. Did you know there are little clampy things that go on your—?" She indicated the tip of her breast.
"I've heard about them, yes. Nipple clamps, nipple clips."