"Mom, I'm home." Carter didn't know what to expect when he got home. Since morning, he had gotten alert after alert from the camera app he installed with his new camera setup. He had accidentally set it up on sentry-mode and left it in the main room; it sent him an alert as well as an image capture--linked to a video--of what had set off the alarm each time. At first it was innocent clips: his stepmother, still waking up as she shuffled to the kitchen for some breakfast and coffee; her walking back and forth from the kitchen to the home office; her cleaning the house. He briefly thought of turning it off but he somewhat enjoyed the voyeurism of watching Ame going about her day. He thought she looked like some cute dainty fairy flitting through the room.
He had a fondness for his stepmother. He found her attractive, yes, but it never progressed further than an appreciation of her dark eyes and silky black hair or her long legs and tiny waist. In typical Asian fashion, she looked at least a decade younger than her 35 years, closer to his 19 than her actual age. And she retained a sweetness and innocence in her behaviour that seemed to charm most everyone she met.
It even worked on her grumpy boss when she interviewed and asked him for a part-time work-from-home job when the advertisement was for full-time at the office. He didn't know how she did it and she just shrugged and smiled cluelessly when he asked her what she said.
However, just shortly before he was to head home, he checked the alerts again, expecting to see just another cute capture of Ame cleaning so he was utterly shocked to open the most recent images from the afternoon. The first clip was of his stepmom, her arms behind her back and tits out being led into the room by a man. He recognized the postal service uniform but Carter didn't recognize him as the older man who used to deliver their mail. She looked afraid and even smaller than she usually looked as the man forced her to bend over the couch in the next image.
Immediately he threw the phone into the passenger seat of his car and rushed the 20 minutes home from the university, barely registering that he had passed the mail truck in his rush to turn into his street. He felt anger for her and he didn't know what to expect when he walked into the house. Would she be broken? Would she still be bent over the couch? He hadn't dared look at the videos or the later images for fear of running off the road in blind rage.
'Mom, I'm home." Hesitantly, he opened the door and called out to her.
"Oh Carter, how was your day?" Amaryllis sounded like her usual self, Carter was surprised. He followed the sound of her voice to the main room and saw her fluffing out the curtains. "It was a bit stuffy so I thought I'd air out the room a bit." She said in way of explanation.
"Oh, sure. How... how was your day?" He asked, looking closely at her face. He thought it looked a little puffy around her eyes and he noticed she walked with more careful steps as if pain radiated down her legs. "Are you okay? You're walking funny."
"Oh, I--" Amaryllis bit back her tears as she looked up at the concern her stepson was showing her and gave him as bright a smile as she could manage. "It's nothing. I just pulled a muscle doing yoga after lunch. I must be getting old." She forced a laugh and turned away from him to finish with the curtains. She didn't want him to know what happened to her, how she had been defiled by the mail man just minutes before he came home. Even though he was grown now, she still wanted to protect him from the evils of the world.
He was surprised she didn't say anything about what had happened. Although he could see she was in pain and that her face was slightly puffy from crying she pretended that nothing was wrong.
"Do you need uh-- help, with dinner?" He asked her as he stood awkwardly watching her; he felt like he shouldn't leave her alone right now. However, she smiled and shook her head. She walked over to him, slower than usual, and started urging him to the stairs.
"It's okay Carter, you need to focus on your studies. I'll call you when dinner's ready." She smiled up at him and parted his back with both hands, trying to push him forward. Reluctantly, he nodded and let her lead him to the stairs.
In his room, he sat on his bed to load up the app on his phone and looked through the image captures first. His anger grew as he watched the fear and pain on her face grow. He started the first video and put on his headphones. He could barely make out the conversation floating in from the front door.
"...let me go..."
"... you...do what I want..."
"Wait, no, stop!"
"...thinking about my cock."
"...that hurts!"