Frank and Chloe - A Father and Daughter Story
When Frank's wife moves out of the marital home he is devastated. The one scrap of comfort is that his daughter has chosen to stay with him. For Chloe, the departure of her mother opens up a world of possibilities...
I hope you enjoy the story. This is my first attempt at a Father/Daughter story, so I would appreciate as much feedback as possible. My thanks to Gemma for encouraging me to try new genres within the incest category and to try a new style of writing.
Sylviafan
Frank Harding stood at the front door of the farmhouse and watched the taillights of his wife's car disappear into the fine drizzle of a late November afternoon. He watched as she bumped down the long, untarmacked lane that separated the old farmhouse from the nearest road. He watched as she reached the end of the lane and turned left towards the town and disappeared out of his life. And Chloe's.
Feeling empty and dislocated he shut the front door and walked down the passage into the big sitting room at the back of the house with its vast fireplace and log fire and its jumble of mismatched furniture. Thank God Chloe hadn't gone with her, he told himself, trying to salvage something from the situation.
His daughter was sprawled on the settee, reading a book. 'Gone has she, Dad?'
'Yes,' he replied, quietly, staring into the fire.
'Good riddance!' said Chloe, vehemently. Then she threw her book down and sprang up from the settee and threw her arms around her father's neck hugging him tightly, feeling the muscles of his chest against her small breasts. 'Sorry, Dad, I shouldn't have said that. I know you loved her.' She laid her head on his shoulder. 'We'll be fine,' she whispered in his ear.
'I hope so,' said Frank, putting his arms around his daughter and hugging her lightly as though he were afraid of crushing her slender frame.
Chloe cooked dinner that evening, a job her mum had always done. But she'd stood in the kitchen watching her mother often enough and she was proud of the fish pie she set in front of her father at the big table in the dining room. But Frank's mind was elsewhere and he only picked fitfully at the meal.
Afterwards, when Chloe had cleared away and thrown a couple more logs on the fire, they sat side by side on the sofa and watched a film on the big flatscreen TV, the only concession to modernity in the room. Actually neither of them watched the film, both their thoughts were elsewhere.
Frank's mind was still numb; he played his wife's departure over and over in his mind; not just today's denouement, but the weeks and months leading up to it. The arguments, the silences, the feeling that she'd left the marriage a long time ago.
Chloe's thoughts were about relationships but could not have been more different. She thought about her father, how hurt he must be feeling and how he needed his daughter's comfort and support. After the second advert break she leaned sideways against him, resting her head on his chest. Frank took a few moments to register the movement, but when he did he responded by putting his arm round his daughter's shoulders, his hand on her upper arm.
'Mmm,' Chloe sighed. 'That's nice.'
Frank's mind went back to his wife, trying to recall the good times. Chloe's thoughts were still on her father, but now focussed on the physical contact between them. Darker thoughts some may say. She was aware of his physical presence, aware of her father as a man, tall and lean and hard-muscled from the endless hours spent scraping a living from the farm. She could smell his scent, a mixture of shower gel and that indefinable smell that she had always associated with her dad: an earthy odour that reminded her of rain and wind and the smell of freshly cut hay.
She was acutely aware of his arm around her, a strong arm that offered shelter and protection, his hand resting softly on her. She was equally aware of his chest against the side of her head, the muscle under his checked shirt, the slow rise and fall as he breathed and the faint thud of his heart.
She squirmed gently against him and his arm tightened and Chloe felt the stirrings of arousal, the faint itch in her loins, her heartrate increasing, her cheeks warm with the blood rising to her face.
At the third advert break Frank disengaged himself from his daughter. 'I think I'll turn in,' he told her. 'I've a lot to do tomorrow.' He stood up and stretched. 'Keep watching if you want to,' he said. 'I won't hear it from my room.'
'I think I'll go to bed, too. I'm tired.' Disappointed would have been a more accurate description of Chloe. She had wanted the hug to go on and on. 'Are you still ok to give me a lift to work in the morning? The forecast's terrible.'