Even hours later Chloe wasn't sure what to make of her father's actions. Hell, she wasn't even sure if they had been intentional or accidental. All she knew was that she couldn't stop thinking about them. Her mind whirred as she remembered what happened in the kitchen early that morning.
Chloe was barefoot, tiptoeing on her pink polished toes to keep the noise down while her family slept upstairs like a lifelike rendering of a Scooby Doo villain. If she lived in the kind of house with portraits of dead relatives, she would have expected their eyes to track her as she passed. Her parents' modest, modern single-family home was better suited to the reproduction still life paintings of apples and grapes that hung on the walls; her father would have considered anything in oils to be ostentatious. Her shoes dangled from her left hand while her right clutched her sparkly silver bag.
She'd been at a party all night, not studying at Sarah's like she had told her parents. Even at 19, her parents kept her on a short leash when it came to any activity where alcohol or sex could be involved. Chloe supposed this probably had more to do with the fact that her mother and father conceived her in their late teens than it had to do with her own behaviour. Luckily, they fell asleep early so sneaking out and in was a breeze -- so long as she was quiet and crept in the back door off the kitchen.
Chloe was so worried about not making any noise that she failed to notice her father sitting at the dining table on the other side of the kitchen island. She was nearly passing him on her way to the hall when she heard his voice from the darkness.
"Not quiet enough tonight, Chloe," his voice rumbled from the gloom. Chloe froze, mind whirring about how she could explain herself, face hot from knowing that there was no excuse her father would buy.
James didn't even have to stand to be intimidating, though if he were standing he would have towered over Chloe. Now that she knew he was there, she could see his green eyes piercing into her, the same way they had when she was little and had failed to clean her room. His voice sounded the same too -- low and serious, but with nothing harsh or sinister. It was the sound of a father disappointed, but not angry, with his little girl.
"Don't bother to lie to me," her father said, reading her mind. "I don't know exactly where you've been, but I know that tight blue dress wasn't for studying with Sarah." He frowned, "Come over here. We are going to discuss this quietly, without waking your mother."
Chloe obeyed. Slowly, reluctantly, she walked the rest of the distance to the kitchen table where her father sat waiting. Her mind felt numb. She had never been caught before, so she had no idea what her punishment would be, but deep down she knew that she was in serious trouble. She started to sit in the chair next to her father, but he put his hand out to stop her.
"Don't get comfortable. This isn't a casual conversation between friends. You're going to stand there and explain yourself." James reached for his drink, a neat whiskey and not his first while he waited for his daughter to come home.
As Chloe stood next to him, she could smell the whiskey and the warm woody smell of her father's cologne. It smelled like home to her. The same smell from when she skinned knees and had her heartbroken and her father would comfort her. There would be no comfort tonight, and the smell had her on edge.
"I ... I'm sorry ..." Chloe stammered. "I don't know what else to say, but I lied and I am sorry." She looked down at the floor, her curly auburn hair tumbling over her shoulders to hide her face. She bit her lip to stop the tears from filling her hazel eyes.
"Look at me, Chloe." Her father's voice, stern, made her raise her eyes to meet his. She looked for the good-natured twinkle that always lay there when she was getting scolded as a child. The one that said she was in trouble but that they would play chess and make up when she was done with her punishment. She only saw cold darkness there. Her heart beat faster.
"Good girl," James said, taking a long sip of his drink. "Now, tell me where you have been."
Chloe shifted her weight uncomfortably from one leg to the other. "I was out, Daddy. With Jen."
"I thought that you were studying with Sarah?" James' eyes raked over her body, taking in the dress that hit above her mid-thigh. His finger reached out idly to stroke the bare skin the dress revealed, moving slightly upward so the dress covered his fingers to the first knuckle.
Chloe's mind went blank. Her entire being was concentrated on her daddy's finger. Was it really underneath her dress? "I...I..." she stuttered, words failing her as that finger slid even further up her thigh, a second finger joining it.
"I think I know exactly what you were doing," his voice was dangerously low now. "I think you were out drinking at a party, dancing with boys and lying to your parents." Still sitting in that kitchen chair, he raised his other hand and ever so gently ran it over the curve of her hip over her dress.
Chloe flinched. Her father had never touched her like this before. Feelings warred inside her. Was she afraid? Remorseful? Turned on? She could feel something uncurling way down deep. A warmth spreading inside her like when Jarek Gramzinski at school touched her hand, but that had been innocent. This was more like the time she looked out her bedroom window and saw her neighbour Andrew fucking his babysitter Grace on the kitchen island. She knew it was wrong to watch, but she slipped her hands into her panties imagining it was her bent over that island. Grace was only a year ahead of her in school, a first year now at Brookes.
Grace had loved it. Even if Chloe didn't see that from the kitchen window, Grace bragged about her affair with the older man next door. She said being with a real man was on a whole different level than the football players she had fucked under the stands. "They know things," Grace had said, "things about your body that you don't even know."
Chloe was snapped back to reality as her father's fingers slid between her legs outside her panties. She nearly gasped at the sensation and stopped herself just in time to avoid pressing her increasingly wet pussy against her father's hand.
He raised his other hand, the one on her hip, and gently slapped her face. Not hard enough to even sting, but enough to make Chloe's eyes open wide and stare open mouthed at her father's familiar face, turned alien in the gloom. "You're not listening to me, Chloe girl. Not a good start if you don't want to get yourself in more trouble tonight."
"Daddy," Chloe managed to get out, her lips trembling, "Your hand..."
"Not the hand you expected up your dress tonight?" The pressure from his thumb outside her panties increased and sent a bolt up Chloe's spine. "Girls don't dress this way and sneak around unless they are looking to let some football player slide his fingers into her panties." His fingers slid forward and backward down her covered slit.
It took everything in Chloe's power not to moan out loud. She was somehow the most turned on she had ever been in her life and it was with her father. It made her feel sick. It was so wrong, and with her mother just upstairs...
"Your mother and I tried our best with you," James said. His fingers continued to move along the outside of her panties. His thumb pressed right on Chloe's clit, and this time there was no stopping it. She whimpered, and her hips shifted against her father's hand, desperate for the friction. His hand was the only thing that mattered. "We gave you everything and tried to instil some morals in you," her father continued, "and here you are in a whore's dress grinding on my fingers like a slut."
His words were harsh, breaking through the cloud of Chloe's lust as she realised that was exactly what she had been doing. She tried to pull back, shame flooding through her. James' grip on her hip tightened, bringing her back to his fingers which were wet from her juices soaking through the silky material of her panties. His eyes blazed into Chloe's and she could hear his husky whisper. "Did I say you could stop?"