This story has elements of incest, voyeurism, interracial and non-consent.
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"Your future's so bright, I gotta wear shades," Jack Dalton's campaign manager had told him earlier that day when the latest poll numbers came out and found him beginning to pull away from his opponent in the race for Senate.
"Let's not get overconfident," the candidate advised his confidants. "We have to keep running hard right to the wire. Those bastards on the other side are ruthless."
Jack Dalton was a seasoned politician but was well aware of the wealth of experience he was running against, not to mention the unlimited resources behind the other side's candidate Mark Masters.
So when Jack Dalton got a call from a most unlikely person, it piqued his interest because multi-millionaire Clyde Howe was providing a considerable amount of the money behind his opponent's campaign.
"I'd like to offer you something - well let's just say that what I have to give you could very well change the election," the aging industrialist told him.
"Well let me say that we would be most interested in hearing what it is you're talking about," Jack Dalton replied but Clyde Howe made it clear that this was to be a private conversation.
"No lackeys, no hangers-on," Howe told him. Just you and me, man to man at my home in Delmar. You know where that is?"
Of course Jack Dalton knew where the massive mansion was because the place dominated the shore of the river, so when Jack agreed to a meeting late that night his mind raced with the possibilities.
Having Clyde Howe behind him instead of his opponent, or even have the old geezer sit out the rest of the race would make all the difference in the world. His 7 percentage point lead would widen even further, and if he had to flip on some issue that Howe was keen about like the minimum wage, it was a price he was willing to pay.
So Jack drove alone to the mansion on the hill, and when he knocked at the door he was surprised when the tycoon answered the door himself and admitted it after shaking hands.
"I sent the help home," Howe explained as he ushered Dalton into a room with a bar and an elaborate home theater system, and after making them a drink had the opposition's candidate sit in one of the plush leather chairs.
"When I got your call - frankly I was stunned," Jack Dalton admitted. "And as for your proposal - or whatever it was - obviously I'm all ears Mr. Howe."
"You're a very confidant fellow, and after those latest poll numbers came in today you have every right to be," Clyde Howe said as he dimmed the lights and the giant television screen lit up the room. "So I called you here to give you the chance of a lifetime. A chance to drop out of the campaign now."
"Drop out?" Jack blurted out as he started to lift himself out of the chair. "I was expecting you to admitting having read the writing on the wall and were preparing to throw your support behind me."
"Support you? Pretty much the answer I expected," Howe said as he pushed a button on the remote and a picture that graced much of his campaign literature filled the screen in front of them. "I'll ask the question again when we're done here. Charming family. Devoted wife and lovely little girl. How old is she?"
"18. Almost 19."
"Obvious to see where she got her beauty from, not to mention that flaming red hair," Clyde Howe continued. "Chelsea's her name, isn't it?'
"Yes, but this campaign isn't about families. It's about the people. About fairness and equality. About Black Lives Matter and about the way our planet is dying and..."
"The dog. That Golden Retriever in the picture? Is he a rental or is it yours?"
"Ours of course," Jack sputtered. "This is ridiculous. You didn't call me out here to look at my campaign materials did you? If you did I think you might really be losing it like some have said."
"Losing it? Hardly. For 72 I'm still as sharp as a tack and while I don't want to brag I masturbated twice today and no, I don't use Viagra."
"Bully for you. Why is this any of my concern?" Jack Dalton wanted to know. "Your masturbating?"
"It's what I was watching as I gratified myself," Clyde Howe chuckled. "It's a campaign ad of sorts. One that will sink the Jack Dalton ship I'm afraid, and I wanted to give you the opportunity to watch it first before it gets released."
"I'm sure if it got you all hot and bothered that it must be good. Chock full of lies," Jack sneered but the old curmudgeon disagreed.
"Quite the contrary," the millionaire told Jack, and before he continued he threw in, "You ready for this?"
Jack mumbled something as the old man clicked off the picture of the Dalton family and a video started. It wasn't a professionally done commercial so much as a home movie.
"Technology is marvelous these days," Clyde opined as he explained. "The camera is mounted in the cap of a gentlemen. See how good the picture is? I remember my father trying to take home movies of us and..."
"What is this?" Jack barked as the camera shot through a black iron spiked fence at the courtyard of a school, the prep school that his daughter attended, and as the camera zoomed in on four girls huddled in the back behind some bushes he said, "Stalking my daughter?"
"Just observing from public property," Clyde Howe said. "And look at that! What are those girls passing around? Is that a joint?"
"No, it's a cigarette," Jack said uncertainly. "You can see it has a filter."
"Filter? Lipstick? Who can tell?" Howe chuckled. "You seem irritated now though."
"I'm not pleased Chelsea is smoking if that's what you mean, but if you think that voters will care about an 18 year girl smoking a cigarette you're crazy! They care about jobs and fairness and guns and Black Lives Mattering!"
"Spare me the stump speech Dalton," Howe wheezed. "One thing I have found out is that you do indeed have a temper, and the rumor about you being a hard-ass husband and father are true. You going to take the belt to your little girl when you get home?"
"None of your bloody business."
"And now here she is out on the snickered. "Such a sweet and wholesome looking lass, like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Curly red hair, a pug nose and all those freckles."
"What's going on now?"
"I think Chelsea's getting some presents," Howe said as the man with the hat cam stepped back to show Chelsea and another person on a park bench.
"What's that guy giving her?" Jack Dalton asked.
"Guy? I don't think Roberta would appreciate being called a guy," Clyde replied. "Roberta is a woman. A bit rough around the edges and not exactly feminine, but a woman nonetheless, and look! Roberta is like Santa Claus giving out presents."
"Chelsea doesn't need that junk," Jack said as looked at the things coming out of the bag. "We can afford anything she wants."
"But you don't let her have them. There's an I-Pod, a Samsung Galaxy, and there's a Kindle Fire too," Howe commented. "Christmas came early. She got everything a teenage girl needs."
"And that's why children are like they are - most of them anyway," Jack Dalton snarled. "All this crap. Talking to machines and playing games. Wastes of time."
"Chelsea seems happy. Look at that smile too. You can see her braces," Clyde mused.
"When I get home..." Dalton seethed as he knew what he would do when he got there.
"Ah yes. When you get your hands on her," Clyde mimicked before going back to the screen. "And the merry trio is off again. I wonder what's next? Maybe they will buy her an ice cream cone?"
"Chelsea is lactose intolerant," Jack Dalton mumbled as the camera brought them first into an elevator and then down a hall and into an apartment.
"Chelsea sure doesn't want to let go of her presents, does she Dad?" Clyde Howe asked.
"What is this all leading to? What's the point of all this"
"Patience Grasshopper," Clyde chuckled. "It's worth waiting for, and if it means anything to you, when they get into the bedroom the man will take the hat off."
"Bedroom?"
"Yes. Won't need a hat cam in there because the room already has cameras installed in it. It's like a movie set in there, only the cameras are well hidden," Clyde told Chelsea's father as he watched his daughter and the unknown couple go down a hall.