These episodes won't make much sense unless you start at the first one and read them all in order.
Everyone's over eighteen, of course.
Going forward, I've decided to submit mid-week, so hopefully each of my new contributions will be available by the start of the weekend. Also, you will start to notice some elements of this saga might fit into other story categories, but I think Mature remains the predominant theme, and I plan to post them all here.
Chapter 4. A bump in the road; more sexy fun...and a big surprise.
Beth and I came lazily awake to the sun streaming in through her bedroom windows. Spotting my morning wood, she persuaded me that it deserved a slow, gentle fuck to settle things back down. I knew that left to itself it would subside quickly on its own without assistance, but I will readily admit she really didn't have much trouble convincing me to try her approach.
Lying in one another's arms, basking in the afterglow, I absentmindedly picked up my phone from the nightstand to check messages. One caller's name jumped out at me, and I quickly opened that message to see what she wanted.
Oops. Well, fuck. Shit just got real. Of course, it was my own fault, at least in part. But the music had to be faced, and putting it off would accomplish nothing. I had promised Beth I would harbor no secrets and, come hell or high water, I intended to honor that commitment. This marvelous lady I was falling in love with [and I was coming to realize that was indeed the case] deserved nothing less. She dozed comfortably in the crook of my arm. I gently shook her awake.
"What?" she whined sleepily.
"I just got a text from someone who wants to come visit me over the Memorial Day weekend coming up," I told her. "Someone you might want to meet. Or...then again, you might not, I'm not sure."
"What the hell does that even mean?" she demanded, still waking up. "And who is it, anyway?"
"It's my twenty-one-year-old granddaughter, Anna, Mike and Janine's youngest," I replied. "Your half-sister's daughter. Which makes her your half-niece, I guess."
"Well of course I'd love to meet her," she barked. "Why in hell would you think I wouldn't?"
"You'll have to tell me how you feel about her joining us this weekend," I said, "After I tell you why I think you might have some reservations."
"I guess you'd better tell me what the fuck you're talking about, John," she said, perplexed, and now fully awake.
"How much to you know about your half-sister Janine's family?" I asked.
"Not much," she admitted. "Like I told you, Mom wanted nothing to do with her my dad's second wife and her kids, so if she heard anything about any of them, she never passed it on to me. Since my stepdad was stationed overseas so often, coming to visit Dad while I was growing up just never happened. Mom pitched a tantrum if anyone even suggested it. Dad told me a few years back that he thought my stepdad was a fine man who would be a good role model for me, so he didn't press the visitation issue."
"My son Mike, your brother-in-law, or half-brother-in-law, if you like, is career Air Force; he flies jets," I explained. "He's been stationed all over the world."
"When Janine was pregnant with their oldest, Greg, she had very serious complications. It's a minor miracle he was born healthy at all, but Janine had to have a hysterectomy, so she couldn't have any more kids. Their two youngest are adopted."
"Twenty-one years ago, they were on Guam, where Mike was stationed. A serviceman got a local girl in trouble. Her family was Catholic, so no abortion, and they didn't want her to keep the baby either, maybe because it was going to be mixed race. The airman in question was Black."
"Mike and Janine were able to adopt the child, Anna, at birth. Over the years, whenever they were overseas, they would arrange for their kids to come stay with relatives stateside during the school year, and then spend the summers together as a family. Anna spent three consecutive years living with Margaret and me during the school year, attending grade school. Of course, she spent half that time over at Fred and June's place, since they're her grandparents as well. I've seen her for brief visits over the years since. The last visit was a long weekend last September, a quick fly-in from where she attends college on the east coast."
"Anna is...beautiful. Gorgeous. Not just my opinion," I cautioned. "She turns heads wherever she goes. Perfect bronze skin. Playboy Playmate figure. Tall. Stunning, exotic, sultry good looks. She takes modeling gigs now and then. If she should choose to make a career of it, like I think she will, she'll be on the cover of Vogue in no time." As I spoke, I brought up Anna's picture on my phone and handed it to Beth, and her face reflected agreement that Anna was indeed very attractive.
"Anna is...ebullient. Adventurous. Independent. A free spirit, even. Smart as a whip. And sexy as hell, and knows it, and loves to show it off. She's had numerous lovers, and doesn't care who knows about them."
I took a deep breath. This could be bad. Really bad.
"The last night Anna was here, last September...she seduced me," I confessed. And waited.
Beth stared at me wide-eyed. Finally, she found her voice. "You...SLEPT WITH HER?! Your granddaughter?"
"Of course, I suppose the truth is she didn't really find seducing me to be all that difficult. I woke up at one in the morning, to find her naked, already beside me in my bed, stroking my cock," I said, "I tried to tell her no, to send her away, but she was insistent. And irresistible. I tried to stop, I really did, but...she'd been flirting outrageously with me the whole weekend, flashing her body, rubbing up against me, dropping unsubtle hints about what she had in mind. I treated it like a running joke, warned her to be careful what she asked for, told her she was playing with fire, you know, just kidding around, playing along with her sexy little game, never dreaming she would really do something so bold."
"But once she dove under the covers to start blowing me, I was...gone," I confessed. "Lost. Helpless. Could not hold back, couldn't stop myself. It had been almost a month since I'd been with Sue, and I guess I was on a hair trigger. No excuse. Not exactly a zipless fuck, but close. She tested my resolve, and I was...weak."
"I don't blame her," I went on. "She was only being true to her own nature. And I wasn't strong enough to overcome mine, I guess."
Beth sat back staring at me, her expression unreadable.
"So what do you think, Beth?" I asked, desperately hoping she wouldn't just reflexively kick my stupid ass out of her bed, out of her house, and out of her life forever. "Am I a monster? Do I deserve to lose the wonderful new love that I just found, that I never expected, because one night nearly a year ago I couldn't summon the fortitude to kick a ravishing raven-haired goddess out of my bed?" I could feel my eyes getting ready to tear up, because I suddenly realized that, having found Beth, the prospect of losing her was frightening.
I held my breath. The moment seemed to stretch forever, and I waited fearfully to learn my fate. Finally, she rolled her eyes and sighed.
"Oh, hell," she said. "I guess if every man who let his cock do his thinking for him now and then were sent to the gallows, we'd need a lot more rope, wouldn't we? She's plenty old enough to decide for herself who she wants to screw. I know I sure made some...interesting choices of lovers when I was that age. I wouldn't call all of them smart choices, either...though some of them were a lot of fun."
"So, who the fuck am I to judge either of you? No one got hurt. And it was only incest in an arcane legalistic sense. The two of you share no actual common familial genetic heritage whatsoever."
"You sure you still want me?" I asked, not quite trusting my luck. "Knowing that I could be so spineless and idiotic?"