[Author's note: In
Grown Up
, Cara confronts the reality of the new relationship of her mother Rena and Wade, her new step-father. This story takes place two years later.
This story is part of the Literotica Valentine's Day 2025 contest - please vote!]
---
Cara zipped her pack up and then hollered through the bedroom door. "Wade."
Presently, her burly step-father appeared in the open doorway. She gestured to the ski bag. "Make yourself useful?"
Wade wrapped a massive fist around the strap of her pack, slinging it across his broad shoulders. He reached down and grasped the handle of her ski bag, tugging it after him without complaint. Cara trotted along behind the big man.
Her mother was in the kitchen, packing food into a bag for them to take. Cara went over to her as Wade lugged Cara's luggage to the front door to load into the car.
"That smells nice," she said.
Her mother smiled. "Bolognese, the spaghetti is underneath. Should keep you both going. It's good energy food. You got your ski jacket? Packed your thermals?"
Cara's mother was just a little shorter than her, standing in her bare feet. She was in tight lycra exercise pants and a white crop top that showed off her cleavage. Her long, blonde hair was tied back loosely in a ponytail that reached midway down her back.
Wade had decided to bimboify her, or rather, Rena had bimboified herself to please her new husband, transforming her forty-two-year-old body with rigorous exercise until she was as toned and fit as her daughter. At first, it had rankled Cara that her strong-minded mother had turned herself into Wade's bimbo wife without any hint of resistance, but, in the intervening two years, she'd come to accept it. She'd come to accept many things.
"Yep, all packed. I'm a big girl now. I'm all grown up, despite what you seem to believe," Cara replied.
It caught her mother's attention and she patted her daughter's hand, instinctively. "I know, baby. You're making adult decisions."
"Ready to roll," thundered a male voice from somewhere else in the house. "Daylight's wasting."
Footsteps approached. Wade strode purposefully into the kitchen, reaching between the two women to pick up the food bag. Cara and Rena parted to allow him between them. He glanced at them both and then smiled.
Cara was very aware of how they would look to him: same height, same slim, trim figures, one with modest, natural breasts and the other augmented for his pleasure to D-cups. One older, but seemingly not too much older. Both now with long blonde hair because that's how he preferred them.
Cara had changed herself too, until she and her mother were often mistaken for sisters. They used the same hairdresser, they had the same fitness instructor, they shared the same clothes. Cara wasn't going to get herself augmented, but she'd worked hard, like her mother had, to sculpt a perfect bubble butt. Her step-father leaned into his wife and gave her a kiss.
"Drive safe," she told him. "Let me know when you get there. Steady on the road, it'll be icy in the mountains."
"Yes, dear. I'll call when we're safe," Wade drawled, giving her a rugged, lopsided grin that Cara knew set her mother's heart alight.
Cara knew, because it set her heart alight too. At first, she had hated him for what he was doing to her mother, until Rena had finally made her see the truth. Now, two years later, approaching the end of college, Cara had found herself slotting into the peculiar life that Wade and Rena had constructed around each other.
"Love you," Wade told Rena.
"Love you too," Rena replied, adding, "Daddy."
"See you soon baby. Let me know if you can get away early."
"I'll try."
They kissed, and Cara hugged her mother. Then they left, Cara following her step-father's towering figure out into the cold. She got into the passenger side of the car because Wade always drove. It was part of the quid pro quo, a man thing.
Cara would have bristled at it two years ago, all fresh-faced from the first year of her Psychology degree. She'd become well-versed in male power dynamics and toxic masculinity, right up until she'd tumbled into Wade's bed while her own mother watched. It had opened up an entirely new world of love and sharing, and made a mockery of some of the things her friends back at college said to each other about gender politics. So, she'd learned to keep her mouth shut. She'd also learned how to deflect the advances she got from the guys on campus, and then the girls as it started to go around that a girl with a body that hot who wasn't dating must surely be into females instead.
It was simpler to invent a boyfriend back home that she was saving herself for, than to even attempt the truth. Sharing the same bed with her own mother and her step-father on a regular basis would have gotten her excommunicated from the friend-groups she'd maintained on campus.
They all shared a bed when she was back from college, Cara and her mother taking turns to sate their sexual appetites with the gruff, muscled man sitting behind the driving wheel.
"When's she coming?" Cara asked.
"Depends. She's got a project all-team meeting she said, then there's a bunch of reports."
"She could bring her laptop and do them up at the snow."
"Apparently not. She said she wants to keep it separate and I don't blame her. I've told the guys at work not to message me unless something is literally on fire." He placed his massive hand over hers. "I value my family time. Anyway, it's not forever."
"When's she finishing up work? Did you decide?"
"There's a phase-two project that'll run to the end of July, and then she'll finish up. She's been doing it years, she's earned a change."
Cara smirked, and Wade picked up on it.
"What?" he said.
"Just the thought of her giving up the career and becoming a full-time housewife."
"So what, Cara? You think it's wrong?"
"It's just, I never imagined her letting go of the reins, swapping the high heels for the domesticity."
"Oh, she'll still need to wear the high heels," Wade rumbled.
"And the pearls, Wade? And the crisp A-line dress?" Cara mocked, good-naturedly.
"Maybe also the big hair," he chuckled. "I might make her do that for me. I'm sure she wouldn't refuse."
Cara tingled inside. No, her mother wouldn't refuse. She'd dress up as the Fifties housewife in her heels and her pearls and her stockings for her husband. Then there would be fireworks afterwards.
"It's a big year, Cara. A lot of changes. You're graduating, Rena's leaving work, we're all getting ready for the next part of our lives. How are you feeling?"
Cara hesitated. Wade was checking again. "If I gave you a different answer now, what would you do?"
"Whatever you wanted to do, Cara. It's your life."
"It's yours too, the both of you."
Wade frowned, hunching his shoulders. He took a while to answer, and Cara became aware of the rumble of the wheels on the road.
"I'm asking," he said at last, "Because it's a big step and it's irreversible. There are certain, uh, gates that you come to in life, where your decision to step through changes you forever. If you wanted to go, I'd understand. Rena would understand, too. We're offering a life, but you're twenty-one. You could go anywhere."
Cara watched the signposts go past. "Music?" she asked.
They listened to tunes for the next couple of hours, stopping to refuel and grab lunch, then pressing on. In front of them, the mountains reared up over the horizon. She surveyed the oncoming granite faces, the brooding bulk, snatching glimpses at snow topping the more distant peaks. Wade seemed content to listen to music, tolerating her choices because she'd picked songs that she knew he'd like too. They would have to switch to Wade's playlist soon, and it would be all classic rock, all the way to the ski fields.
They made slow progress through the snow, as the darkness set in. At least it wasn't snowing. The lodge was a little out of the centre of the village, set on a wooded hillside with cabins dotted between the trees. Wade pulled up at one and turned off the engine.
"Cabin thirteen," he said. "Lucky for some. I messaged the keycode to you both, wanna get the place opened up? I'll haul the luggage."
"Sure. That definitely sounds like a man job, Wade."
Cara got out of the car, and the warmth was stripped instantly from her body. Her boots crunched over packed snow as she raced to the cabin door. Behind her, Wade was pulling her ski bag out of the car, his breath steaming in the car headlights as he approached her. She tapped in the keycode and entered the cabin gratefully.
Wade lumbered in behind her, depositing her bag on the wooden floor. He gave the cabin a cursory inspection. "Nice. This should do for the weekend."
"Two bedrooms, plenty of space," Cara smirked.
"You try having the conversation, Cara. I'd like to book a cabin. I'm bringing my step-daughter. No, we just need one bedroom, thanks. Yeah, let me just go ahead and pop your number onto our do-not-answer list, sir."