"The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children."
William Shakespeare,
The Merchant of Venice
The Cuckold's Son was a stand-alone story. It was blatantly emotional and over-the-top. The Cuckold's Son, Redux re-visited the same people in a more grounded reality. This story is the conclusion of The Cuckold's Son, Redux.
The Cuckold's Son, Redux Concluded
As Danny Lee shut off his car's engine, putting his head back against the headrest, he felt that his whole life was going sideways; drifting like a GT-R on a track, oversteered by an amateur who was a menace to himself and everyone around him.
Danny was in his third year at the University of Texas at Dallas. He had transferred from UT Austin after the birth of his half-sister, Whitney so that he could help his mother as she needed it. Not for his mother, but for his half-sister; an innocent born into a hellscape populated with deeply flawed people. His girlfriend, Faith had elected to stay in Austin and continue with her degree plan. The time apart was torture for Danny and Facetime, while better than a call or text, was not the same as in-person intimacy.
Recently, Danny thought that Faith might be moving on from him. They had been together for six years and were each other's first for everything. Their whole life had been planned out. Get married after college. Get good jobs. Buy a house. Have kids. Be each other's best friend forever and ever. Lately, when Danny called Faith, the calls went to voice mail. She would not return his calls until the next morning with the excuse that she was at the UT library late, studying. When they did Facetime, Faith generally ended the call after a few minutes, saying she had errands to run or she had to study or she was tired. Danny was not an idiot. He knew that Faith was most likely dating someone else and putting distance between the two of them. High school sweethearts seldom made it through college.
Danny had been contemplating making the drive down to UT to surprise Faith. Or maybe surprise himself, he thought sadly.
Danny was still working at the sporting goods store although he no longer had to contribute as much to the household expense as he had in the early days after his father left. His father did pay spousal maintenance and child support, as well as Danny's tuition but that was not nearly enough for the expenses required of maintaining a home in Highland Park and as well as the expenses for a college student and an infant. Danny may not have approved of his mother's "occupation" but she was earning a good living.
Danny glanced at his watch and noted that it was early enough his mom would still be working in her studio. Danny exhaled slowly and trudged into the house he shared with his mother and sister.
Whitney was in her crib in the family room, engaged with her toys. Danny waved at the baby video monitor to let this mother know he was home. Maddy soon entered the family room, tying the belt on her robe, and smiling at her firstborn.
"Hi, sweetie. How was school?" Maddy asked.
"Same old, same old," Danny replied as he reached down and scooped up Whitney. She giggled as he made funny faces at her before blowing a raspberry on her stomach. She loved that and giggled hysterically.
"Guess what?" Maddy asked with a smile. "I hit two thousand today!"
Maddy was clearly overjoyed at this revelation; Danny considerably less so. Two thousand subscribers. Two thousand people were paying ten dollars a month to watch his mother get naked and masturbate and more on FapFans. That's not to mention all the people that got to see her free from rip sites that posted stolen content. A big part of Danny's life was spent sending takedown notices to these sites for violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and then following up to make sure that they followed through. If not, Danny passed the information to his mother's attorney who would send cease and desist letters. It was a never-ending game of whack-a-mole, that left Danny depressed, angry, and bitter.
Finding his mother's content on rip sites, meant that he had to view the content. No son should have to watch his mother masturbate or have sex with strange men. But that was his life now. Maddy reasoned that Danny had been exposed to her sexuality when he was eighteen and a senior in high school so he had already seen everything there was to see. Danny was by nature a reserved person, so his mother's overt sexuality unnerved him and made him uncomfortable. Maddy made two concessions to Danny's feelings; 1) she limited her activities to one of the guest bedrooms which she had converted to her studio, and 2) she would only invite men over to create content with her if both Danny and Whitney were out of the house.
Maddy's income from FapFans meant that Steven Lee's spousal maintenance and child support were of decreasing importance to their quality of life. Danny spoke with his father every other month, although Maddy spoke with him more often than that. Danny knew that his parents still loved each other, although Steven's pride and ego would not let him accept Whitney. So, he decamped to California. Maddy's parents were old and were not in good health, so she could not have followed Steven to California, even if he had asked her to. Danny knew that Steven subscribed to his ex-wife's FapFans and wondered for about the millionth time, how did his parents get so fucked up? Why was his dad the way he was? Why did his mom allow herself to be used like whore?
"I don't even know what to say about that, Mom," Danny replied. "Yay, I guess. Two thousand guys jerking it to my mom. What son wouldn't want that," Danny said dryly.
"Baby, I know you don't like me doing FapFans but it's bringing in really good money." Maddy picked up her cell phone, tapped the screen a few times, and then showed the screen to Danny.