I met my wife, Linda, when I was 25. Her and I had a short whirlwind romance and after six months of seeing each other, we decided to get married. Now looking back on it, there was really no love involved, we were just two horny people that enjoyed sex. Now Linda was five years older than I and part of the package deal in marrying her was her ten-year-old daughter, Marcy.
Back when Linda was in her second year of nursing school, at 20 years old, she had gotten pregnant from a guy that she met at a party one night, that she had gone to in the city, with several of her girlfriends. According to Linda, the condom had broken and nine months later, Marcy came along. Linda never saw that guy again, and the only father figure Marcy knew up to that point was her grandfather, since she spent most of her days with him and her grandmother, while Linda finished school.
So, when I came along, it was safe to say that Marcy was not a fan of me, especially when Linda and I moved her away from her grandparents, shortly after we got married. It did not help matters that we moved across state, so Linda could work at a large university hospital on the nearby campus. Marcy blamed me for the upheaval of her life and my name was shit for a good while, even though it was Linda's idea to move there.
I eventually won over Marcy's heart, and it was not long before she really began to look up to me as if I were her real father, especially when both of her grandparents had passed away, not long after she had turned fifteen, within just a few months apart from each other. Marcy was devastated to say the least and since I worked from home as a network consultant at the time, I was the one who was there to comfort her during the roughest time of her mourning.
Linda, on the other hand, seemed cold about it, especially when she found out that they did not leave her much in their estate. They left the bulk of it, in a trust fund, under Marcy's name and no one could touch it, except for Marcy, after she turned twenty-one. Well, that just infuriated Linda and from that point on, she just acted colder and colder to both, Marcy, and me.
I did the best that I could to keep our marriage together, but after a few more years, when Marcy was getting ready to graduate, Linda decided she did not want to be married anymore and was going to file for divorce. I should have seen it coming but I really hoped that we could make it work and thought that since we still had regular amounts of sex, we would eventually be okay. It was not to be.
It turned out that Linda had been secretly stashing money aside and was having an affair with a former patient, that she had met at the hospital that she worked at. One Saturday morning, a week before Marcy graduated, I woke up to the sound of Linda's car pulling out of the driveway. She had cleaned her closet, packed her bags, and left, leaving only a note on the kitchen table.
When I went out, there was Marcy sitting there at the table, crying her eyes out, reading the note that Linda had left. I put my arm around Marcy to comfort her and read the note.
"John, as you know by now, I am leaving you. I can't say that it's been fun because for me, it was miserable. The only thing good about us the last few years was the sex, and frankly, I got tired of just fucking you. You can have the house; I do not want anything from you. Just take care of Marcy and give her the house, since she does not seem to love me anyway. She has always been so attached to you that one would have thought that you had given birth to her. Do not try to find me, because you will not be able to.
"Marcy, I'm sorry that I was not a good mother for you. Be good for your dad, and I hope you do good in college next year. I hope that one day, you will forgive me for leaving. It is for the best for all of us. I love you."
I started crying right along with Marcy, who had now turned and had wrapped her arms tightly around me, with her face buried in my side, bawling her eyes out. How could Linda do that to her? How could she do that to me? I slid a chair over with my foot and managed to sit down alongside Marcy as the two of us just sat there for what seemed like an eternity holding each other in tears.
Marcy and I managed to get through her graduation okay, with plenty of emotional support from friends around us. She had graduated at the top of her class and was voted in as her class valedictorian. I was so proud of how well she did to get through her speech to her classmates, only wavering a few times, during mentions of her family. Marcy came running over to me, and jumped into my arms, after the ceremony was over, letting all the emotions flood out of her as she thanked me for being a wonderful Dad.
Now Marcy had grown up into a beautiful young woman and I could not help but worry about her around all those horny guys, when she headed to college this coming fall. Standing at 5'8" tall with strikingly gorgeous flame red hair, a peppering of freckles, piercing ice blue eyes and a slim modelesque figure, I thought for sure she would be a target of all the hound dogs, but I guess I did not give her enough credit because it turns out, she was a lot stronger than I anticipated, keeping the boys at bay, for the most part while she concentrated on her schoolwork.
Fast forward a couple of years later, and Marcy, now quickly approaching her 20th birthday, was ready to start enjoying her summer break from her second year of college. I was very happy that she had still decided to follow in her mother's footsteps, by going to nursing school, at the same university hospital where her mother had worked, but her desire to help people, surpassed any lingering hurt feelings she had towards her mom, even though she had not heard from her mom, since she left us. I was just happy that she would be staying here with me while she attended.
About a week after she had finished for the year, Marcy and I were eating breakfast together and she asked, "Dad, do you mind if I have a few of my girlfriends over for a little pool time tomorrow to celebrate my birthday? It will just be four of us, so no worries about hosting some big party or anything."
I nodded and said, "Sure, sounds like a plan. I was planning on hitting the grocery store today so I could make you a birthday cake, so I'll buy some extra food, to make for you, too."
Marcy smiled and said, "You're the best, Dad. I love you."
Marcy got up, leaned over, and kissed me on the cheek as I smiled and said, "I love you, too, sweetie."
When she leaned over, I could not help noticing that her fuzzy, thigh length robe had fallen open a bit, giving me a glimpse down the front of it. She was not wearing anything under it, as far as I could tell, and I could see her small, barely B-cup breasts with cute puffy nipples capping off the tip of them. It was a very brief view, but that image instantly burned a hole in my mind as she stood back up, smiled at me, and headed in to take a shower.
Why did seeing her breasts like that, seem to spark my feelings of arousal? Why did I suddenly see my sweet Marcy like that? I had seen her nearly naked hundreds of times, on accident, while she was going from the bathroom, back to her bedroom after showering, or when she just forgot to close her door all the way when I happened to pass by.
None of those incidents ever made me feel this way, so why now? Was it because I had not been with or seen a woman like that since before her mom left us? I had been so busy trying to get my life back together over the past year, that I had never even entertained the idea of meeting someone or dating for that matter. Hell, I had not even masturbated one single time and I was beginning to think that all sexual urges had long disappeared.