Dinner was surprisingly normal.
I wasn't sure what I had expected. Maybe for my wife to come home and immediately realize that I had been screwing my stepdaughter all afternoon. Maybe for her to notice that something was different about me: that I had a silent, unspoken air of confidence or something.
But no, Barbara clicked into the house on her high heels — late, she'd been working late a lot recently — wearing her tight little pencil skirt and cream-colored blouse, looking like a million bucks but hardly giving her husband a glance.
In between our second and third fuck, McKenzie and I had teamed up to make the meal. Spaghetti and meatballs, the kind of food you can't mess up even when one of you is exhausted and the other has just been fucked out of her slutty little mind. It was the first time I'd made dinner in a while, usually when Barb wasn't home I just had cereal or made something in the microwave and was plopped down in front of my laptop watching TV by the time she got back to the house.
The gesture was lost on her.
As usual, dinner conversation consisted almost entirely of the girls talking while I sat there and chewed my food in silence. Today, though, for the first time in weeks, I didn't mind. I didn't sit there stewing, waiting for my wife to chat with her stepdaughter about her day and never ask me about mine. I didn't glower at the back of Barb's head when she wasn't looking only to beam silently at her when she deigned to glance my way. I felt beyond that, only now realizing how small and petty my old concerns had been.
I am the Man, the Master of this house. The Man of the House doesn't concern himself with the gossip of his women.
Honestly?
I thought, cutting a meatball in half and forking a piece into my mouth,
Barbara was right to treat me that way. I was a mediocre man. I didn't act in a way deserving of respect, so why should she have given it to me?
It wasn't until the meal was almost finished that my second wife glanced my way and said, "John, dear, can you come up after you do the dishes? I have something I wanted to talk to you about."
My stomach dropped, and the confidence that I'd been feeling the entire evening seemed to melt away as I reverted instinctively to old habits.
What happened?
I worried.
Did she see something? Does she suspect something? What have I done wrong?
I smiled wanly and nodded. "Of course, darling. I'll be right up."
Barbara nodded and wiped her mouth with her napkin as she pushed back from the table.
My eyes locked for a moment on her full, luscious lips, and then flickered back up to her cool blue eyes. I watched as she stood, dropped her napkin carelessly on the table, and then strode from the dining room. Her legs looked miles long in those heels and the casually sexual sway of her hips in that pencil skirt...
I realized I had been staring blatantly at her ass and glanced nervously at my stepdaughter. I was worried.
What if she stops listening to me as soon as she realizes my confidence is a fraud?
I wondered.
McKenzie was watching me, a playful glint in her hazel eyes and her teeth biting at her bottom lip. Her eyes were wide and innocent as she stood from her chair, tucking a stray hair behind one ear. She was wearing a skirt too, a wonderfully short one that bared plenty of thigh, and she played with the hem as she circled around the table.
We could hear her mother going up the stairs in the background —
click, click, click
in those heels — as she sat on the corner of the table with one leg dangling nonchalantly. She cupped my cheek with a small hand, gave me a look that was almost tender, then leaned in and kissed me full on the mouth.
My fears evaporated as I sank into the kiss.
Yes,
a deep, masculine voice sounded from the depths of my mind.
Good.
The worries I'd had with Barbara vanished, replaced by the realization that all I truly needed was a new set of mental frameworks to replace the ones I'd been using for years.
My stepdaughter's mouth was still only inches from mine as she pulled back long enough to whisper, "Don't worry about her, Daddy. I know you'll remind her who's the master of the house. Just like you reminded me..."
Then, I took control.
McKenzie gasped into my lips as I pushed back from the table and stood, my hands clasping her slim waist and pulling her closer. She slid off the table and onto her tiptoes and my fingers were up under that slutty little skirt, kneading her supple young ass and making her moan wantonly into my mouth.
I could feel myself getting hard as she ground up against me, her hands on my arms and shoulders and back and her perky teenaged tits pressed to my chest. But I pulled back.
Something I have to do first.
"Now," I ordered, rolling my shoulders back and fixing her with a commanding stare. I could practically sense my stepdaughter getting wet as I pinned her in place with my dark brown eyes and my hands on her curvy young hips. "You're going to clean up from dinner."
McKenzie's eyes fluttered down submissively. "Yes, Daddy..." she murmured, her voice soft.
"And then," I continued, "when I'm done with your mother, I'm going to come back down here and... check your work."
A little smile touched McKenzie's lips, pulling them up at the corners. Her glance up into my face caught my confident smirk and she nodded eagerly. "Yes, Daddy."
"Good girl," I told her. I leaned in swiftly for another peck on the lips before striding out of the room and up the stairs. I took them two at a time, self-assurance thrumming through me once again.
You are in control. You are an Alpha Male. You are the Man of the House.
Barbara was in the bathroom taking off her makeup when I came in. She didn't spare a glance my way as I walked in and sat on the edge of the bed closest her, my fingers entwined and hanging between my thighs as I leaned forward with my elbows on my knees.
"So," I said, taking a moment first to let my eyes wander down her curvy figure. "What did you want to talk about?"
My wife didn't respond at first, wiping at her face with a moist towelette, but I didn't feel the need to press. I could be patient. This was a waiting game. I hadn't realized, before, how much of our relationship was made up of dominance games like this one.
I suppose,
I thought pensively,
that that's why I always used to lose.
"Do you know what 'BDE' stands for?" Barbara asked suddenly, turning to shoot me a look with those big blue eyes of hers. She was trying to surprise me, to put me on my heels, but instead I furrowed my eyebrows and treated her to a look of consternation.
"What? What are you talking about?"
"This afternoon at work I got a text from McKenzie." My wife glanced in the mirror then tossed her used towelette to the counter and strode back into the bedroom. "She brought a package inside from the front step. It had your name on it and the label 'BDE: Reprogram Yourself for Victory.'" She raised one sculpted eyebrow at me. "I assume you know what I'm talking about now?"
I nodded slowly, forcing myself to bear up under her icy stare. It was harder than I had anticipated. My habitual reaction was to simply fold up and try to give my wife whatever she wanted. "I do."