Prologue.
They lay together in their post-coital relaxation stroking each other and murmuring words of love and fulfillment, his hand still softly caressing her breast. As Amanda lay there, sensitive to that lovely softness that women experience following sensual gratification, her mind began to roam back over the years to what had led up to this, their first time.
The Beginning.
It had started many years ago when, at the age of forty her mother died. It had taken two years from the onset of the wasting disease, for her mother, also called Amanda, to find the release of death. She and her father had watched over her, cared for her, loved her, and when she was finally admitted to the Hospice, they had sat with her hour after hour for three weeks.
Two days before she died her mother had said to her and her father, "Care for each other. Comfort each other." After that she slipped into a coma and said no more.
The death was no sudden shock. They had anticipated it for two years. Yet even so, the wrenching out from one's life of someone dearly beloved leaves a wound that can take long to heal, and for some, never heals.
Amanda had loved her mother dearly, and her father and mother had been that most wonderful of combinations, friends and lovers. Amanda had seen how they loved each other, and had often heard them in their expression of that love – her father's moans and her mother's cries as they came to orgasm.
After the death, both Amanda and her father seemed to turn in on themselves, taking the pain of their loss somewhere deep down into their psyches. They made no outcry, they shed no tears, and sadly, a gulf seemed to open between Amanda and her father.
Those who knew them were amazed. Knowing the love that had flowed between mother, father and daughter, they had expected signs of great grief, floods of tears, some external signs of their bereavement. They saw none, apart from a grim isolation as two people went into their own separate inner prisons of grief.
A Year Goes By.
In the following year they continued to occupy the same house, but seemed to lead almost separate lives. Allan, her father, was a handsome man, and during the course of the year had many offers ranging from making him a cup of tea, through suggestions of "Deep and meaningfuls," to marriage.
Even if he might have been attracted to any of the "suggesters," the pain of his beloved's passing was too great for him to be interested. He went to work, came home, ate his meal, and spent the evening either going through the family photograph albums, or sat staring into space. As for Amanda, she dropped out of social life and wrapped herself in her work and doing her share of the household chores.
Friends and relatives ceased calling, and Allan and Amanda lived in the dark world of their loss.
Daylight Again.
It was on the day of the first anniversary of her mother's death that the storm finally broke. Amanda came upon her father sitting in the lounge with a photograph of his dead wife held in his hands. Tears were streaming down his face. Amanda went to him and sat beside him on the sofa and put her arms round him and wept with him.
There poured out from them those repetitive words and phrases so common in times of great heartache. The "why" questions, the little guilts and "If only's," that obsess us when it is too late to say the words or do the deeds.
My friends, if you love, then tell your beloved, for tomorrow may be too late.
And so Allan and Amanda clung to each other weeping and mourning, and as can so often happen in times of great emotional crisis, the undiscriminating emotions can turn down strange and unexpected channels.
Bear in mind that Allan had not been sexually close to a woman for three years and Amanda's last boyfriend had long ago departed her company. Their sexual needs had been buried with their grief, and now, as this grief burst to the surface, so did their innate sensuality.
Amanda, stroking Allan's face, drew his hand to her breast and said, "Father, let's make each other whole again."
There, on the sofa, they came together in and act of healing love. The pent up emotions of their long denial exploded in a weeping, moaning, sexual act of such power as to leave them exhausted. As Allan came, he cried out, "Amanda, my love." His daughter did not know if that cry was for her or her mother.
Their faces drenched with tears and genitals soaked with each other's fluids, they lay, momentarily sated, looking into each other's eyes.
Allan made a mental effort to feel guilty at taking his own daughter, even though it was at her encouragement, and sensing his thoughts, Amanda whispered, "Mother said we were to care for and comfort each other."
That night Amanda took her mother's place in the marriage bed for her own bridal night.
A New Beginning.
Once begun, Amanda and Allan could hardly leave each other alone. Both were experienced lovers, Allan with his wife and Amanda with a couple of rather unsatisfactory boy friends. In their fist night of love, they found in each other the completion of their humanness.
Amanda felt herself explored in every crevice of her body. Allan possessed her, as she had never been possessed before. She gave herself willingly and passionately, denying Allan or herself nothing. Allan's orgasmic cries she now knew to be for her, and come what may, there could no be no turning back.
In the morning, they awoke as healed beings.
Creation Sings.
She knew when it happened. That mysterious instinct women have almost signaled the very moment.
It was on a night when after long and fervent foreplay, Amanda felt herself to be in that most wonderful state of female arousal. Wetter, softer and more receptive than ever, yet with powerfully gripping vaginal muscles.