Privately, I call her âLittle Miss Sulkyâ. Tara, my wifeâs daughter from her first marriage is a mass of seething teenage hormones and temper tantrums wrapped up in a nicely curved-in-all-the-right-places, curly-blonde-headed package. She is an fairly ordinary, nice looking kidâŠno thatâs not right, emerging young womanâŠor rather, she would be without the constant sulkily pouting lips and sullen frown. She really is very pretty when she smiles, which is all too seldom.
Tara fiercely resents her mother for finally leaving and then divorcing her husband to escape the regular drunken Saturday night beatings and marital rapes. Tara still thinks the sun shines out of the bastardâs backside! Her face lights up whenever it is time for she and her brother, Jim Jnr, to go on one of their court-ordered visits. It seems as if that is the only time she is ever happy.
But even more fiercely, Tara resents that one day her mother met me â in a clash of trundlers at a supermarket checkout! And she is really pissed that Shelley and I instantly liked each other, became friends, then lovers, and then decided to marry, thus cutting Jim out of the picture altogether. Besotted with her father, Tara has made life hell for the rest of us ever since. Even Jim Jnr doesnât escape her wrath. Her battles with Shelley are frequent and immense, and usually end up in tears with Tara slamming her way to her bedroom in high dudgeon. And the hot stares of pure hatred the girl throws in my direction on a daily basis need to be seen to be believed! I do my best to talk to her, but my attempts at gentle humour are received with disdain and âone of those looksâ.
I became a househusband. A few months after our wedding, I got caught out in an accident on a construction site when some contractors were tearing down an old building before the company I worked for as a civil engineer could start the new project. Under normal circumstances I would have been out of harmâs way, but a collapsing wall demolished the lightly fabricated site office where I was working. Two of my assistants died and I ended up in intensive care. Laid out immobile on my back, I speculated that no doubt Tara was pretty disappointed that I survived. Luckily, our income didnât suffer too greatly. Shelley was able to go back to working at the bank, where she had been an account manager until Tara was born, and she was quickly re-assimilated into that role. And as I got better, I resumed some of my engineering work, but by remote as a consultant instead of full time.
Therefore, I am generally here when everyone gets home. Jim Jnr spends lots of time with his buddies after school and only arrives to wash up before dinner. Shelley shows up between 6.30 and 7pm, although she sometimes surprises us all by getting home early. So most often, Tara is the first one to show her face and, of course, she heads to her room without even acknowledging my presence.
But the day before yesterday is differentâŠ
Instead of going to her room, Tara comes into the kitchen, where I am starting to prepare the evening meal. She doesnât speak, just stands at the other end of the room leaning against the bench with her back to me, drinking the glass of water she has just drawn from the tap. I notice that her shoulders are slumped. In fact, her whole body language says that she is thoroughly dejected.
âWhatâs up, kiddo?â I ask, speaking quietly and not looking at her. âBad day at âthe officeâ?â
I am startled by a muffled sob. I shoot a quick glance in Taraâs direction and see that her shoulders are shaking.
I stop what I am doing and dry my hands. âHey Tara, whatâs up? Any way I can help?â
âNoâŠthereâs nothing you can do!â
The usual helpless feeling a male gets when he is faced with a female in tears overcomes me. I move close to her and put my hand on her shoulder, âCâmonâŠeven though we donât get along the best, Iâm still here for youâŠâ There is a sudden thought in the back of my mind that maybe Tara has got herself pregnant. âYouâre not âin troubleâ are youâŠ?â
She turns to look at me. Tears streak her cheeks and her eyeliner has run. âIn troubleâŠ? OhâŠnoâŠyou meanâŠ? No, nothing like that!â She smiles ruefully and murmurs again, âNo, nothing like thatâŠâ more to herself than to me.
Tara mops her face with the backs of her hands, spreading her makeup around even more. She looks like a rather sad Panda. âItâs just girl stuffâŠâ
âAaaaahâŠâ Another instant male reaction â the time of the month!
âNo, itâs not that either. Itâs just that on the way home two of my best friendsâŠor at least I thought they were my best friendsâŠcame out and told me I am a fat slob. And then they said that Iâd never get to go out with any really good-looking guys until I lose a lot of weight. They were so meanâŠ!â
Tara stands no chance of some day walking the catwalks as a model, the stocky, build she inherited from her father is against her, but if she is sensible with her diet and gets plenty of exercise, neither will she get fat.
âOh come on!â I exclaim. âI donât know where they got the âyouâre fatâ bit fromâŠyou look just fine to meâŠperfectly normal in fact. And you certainly arenât a slobâŠyou look after your hair and clothes and things beautifullyâŠno bullshit! I suppose theyâre a couple of skinny flat-chestedâŠ!â
âThey are so slim and pretty! And they have nice tits. All the guys chase after themâŠâ
I shook my head, âJesus, some people! I tell you, if I were a young guy looking for a girlfriend, Iâd pick a curvy, good-looking girl like you before one of those anorexic bitches who walk like theyâve got a broomstick permanently up their buttâŠ!â
To my surprise, Tara turns to me, puts her arms around my middle and presses up to my front. I instinctively put my arms around her.
âDo you really mean thatâŠ?â Her voice is muffled against my chest.
âBet your cute ass I doâŠ!â It was meant as a joke, but my stepdaughter really does have quite a cute ass; the kind of springy handfuls a guy likes grab hold of while heâs sliding his cock in and out of a chickâs hot little snatch.
âThank you, DaveâŠâ
I know I should break away, but Tara feels so good in my arms. Her generous breasts bore into my chest. I can feel her warm belly against mine. I do not mean it to happen, but my body reacts. I begin to get hard. I think to myself, âShit, Dave! Sheâs your wifeâs daughter! Sheâs twenty years younger than you are for Chrissakes!â and then âOh God, I hope she canât feel my dick!â
Yet, I still clasp her to me.
We hold each other for what seems like aeons, although it is only a few seconds. My pulse thumps like a bass drum in my ears. I can feel my blood singing through my veins. Then I realise that, yes, Tara can feel my erection. She is pushing her pelvis closer to my hardness, and is rubbing her belly against it.
We both know we are tumbling into the danger zone and should stop this now! Yet we still clasp each other tightly.
Her thick golden mane of hair is loose today. Tara sometimes wears it tied up in a ponytail, showing off her neck. She has a lovely neck; it is one of her best features. I sometimes find myself wondering how it would feel to stroke the skin of that fragile seeming column. Ok, I have always had a âthingâ about the back of a womanâs neck. Without prior thought, I slide a hand up her back, under the heavy strands of hair and inside the collar of her school shirt. She is just as I imagined, soft and smooth, yet strong as well. I stroke her skin with the pads of my fingertips and Tara presses ever tighter to me.
Suddenly, her grasp on my waist slackens. I find myself breathing a deep internal sigh of disappointment that the moment is over. But no! Tara is not moving away from me! Instead, still using me for support, she is sinking slowly to her knees! By stroking the back of her neck I was not telling to her to do this. I wasnât pushing her down, or anything like that! But she must think I was! I should stop her and make it right, but I donât. With my heart pounding, I let my stepdaughter to go on down. Her cheek slides down my chest and down my belly until she comes to kneel on the tiled floor before me with her forehead resting on my belt buckle.
My cock feels like an iron bar in my pants. All reason leaves me. My whole being cries out to me to get that hard flesh out and push it between Little Miss Sulkyâs pouting lips! I tell myself that she must do this all the time with her boyfriends. She wants it! She loves it!
The sound of my zipper sliding down is like ripping metal. Tara must know what I intend to do. I tell myself that if she pulls away now, I will not force her! But a little voice inside me says âCome on Dave, youâre not so sure about that!â