Josh stared blankly at the basement wall, slumped in his sofa while a deathly silence engulfed the room. His thinking was slow, and his breath felt heavy. It had been just two days since Mary had left him and Christine. She had packed and gone while they were at a dental appointment. His princess, Christine, had been afraid of the dentist ever since she was a child and would only consider a dental examination if Josh was present with her in the room.
Josh had not seen it coming. He knew he was bad at picking up Mary's cues, but she could have told him that she felt unhappy. She should have told him. But all he got was a goddamn note saying that she had found someone else. That she had just been waiting for Christine to become an adult. And now that Christine had turned 18 and was leaving for college soon, Mary had nothing tying her to Josh anymore.
Josh had tried to reach her, but she wouldn't answer any of his calls; and he had no idea where she could be. Neither her mother nor her sister had any idea of where she was. He needed to get in touch with her. It didn't matter to him that she had forsaken their marriage. But what about their little girl? Christine was barely a grown up and already forced to face the life-changing devastation of being abandoned by her mother.
Josh slowly circled these thoughts in his mind. His body sat absolutely still in the couch; only his chest bobbing up and down, synchronized with his shallow breath. Suddenly, a creak from the basement door made him pull himself upright. It must be Christine. She would have probably come to check up on him.
The front of the couch was turned away from the stairs so he could only hear her coming, her flip-flops flip-flopping down the hardwood steps.
"Daddyyy," she called to him sweetly from behind the couch, "You shouldn't be sitting all alone in the dark. It's not good for you."
"Oh sweetheart," Josh quivered, trying to suppress the darkness in his heart from coming through in his voice, "I just wanted some space."
"I understand, Daddy. But you can't sit in this musty old basement all night." Christine paused for a second as she braced herself to jump on the back of the elephant in the room. "It's going to hurt for a while, Daddy. But you need to find a way to keep cheering yourself up. And I'm always here to help you."
Christine had moved in front of her father. Her form was illuminated by the dim light that came through the door that she had entered through. She had come down in a black, lacy night dress. It was quite short, barely reaching the start of her thighs. Her long, wispy blond hair, exactly the same as her mother's, draped her shoulders and partially covered the low V cut neck of the dress so the cleave was hidden in modesty. She came up right in front of her father and placed both her hands on his thighs, her thin frame leaning into his face with a big welcoming smile.
Josh just stared vacantly at his daughter. He knew her words came from a place of love. But she was talking out of her ass. Cheer himself up? How?
"Darling. I don't understand what you're smiling about. I just lost the only woman I've ever loved. You've just lost your mother! There's going to be days when both of us are going to wish that she was still around."
"Oh Daddy....we don't need her" said Christine, plopping herself onto her father's lap.
"Christine!!! I'm surprised that you could even think such a thing. I know we had some rough times...but we were a team. We were a family."
"But that's just it, Daddy. She clearly didn't see it that way. That's why we don't
need
her. We're enough for each other." Saying that, Christine nuzzled into her father's neck and gave it a peck. Josh felt a bit weird. This act felt a bit too intimate. Obviously, Christine was hiding the way Mary's departure had affected her, Josh thought. She was clearly acting it out physically by doing such a strange thing. But Josh wasn't going to call it out. He didn't want to bring his discomfort to the spotlight in case it made her feel awkward. And Josh didn't mind the closeness too much anyway. Holding her in his arms, in this moment, he felt whole. Maybe she was right. Maybe they would be fine together.
Josh was suddenly thrown out of his reveries. Christine wasn't stopping with the peck on his neck. She was continuing to kiss him, moving her lips all over the side of his neck. Josh's entire body tightened stiff; and his cock had started to tingle. Christine stuck the tip of her tongue out and licked the base of Josh's neck with it. Josh instantly ripped her away from his body. "What are you doing!!??"
Christine looked back at Josh with, a tinge of shame and embarrassment in her face. Josh could feel her entire body trembling in his arms. His cock was trembling too. They just stared wide eyed at each other until Christine broke the silence.
"I'm sorry, Daddy. I know that was wrong. But....but...Mommy hasn't loved you for years. But I do. I mean...I always did." Tears were forming in her eyes. "There was so much space between you two. And I thought that I was supposed to fill it." She sobbed. "I wasn't enough to keep the two of you together. But I can be enough for you."
"You're enough for me, darling. Just not in that way. How could you think such a thing? You're my little princess."
"I know, Daddy. That's exactly the way you've always made me feel. And that's why I need to show you how I feel about you." Christine placed both her hands on her father's cheeks and leaned in, kissing him on the lips.
Josh had no idea of what to do in the situation that he found himself in. His daughter's confession hit him like a bowling ball hurled straight at his head. Christine was the most beautiful girl he had ever seen. And now she was here in his arms, so close that he could hear her breathing; so close that he could feel her warmth; so close that he could smell her skin and this four-dimensional experience of his daughter's living flesh was igniting a fit of lust inside of him.
Christine was grinding her little bottom against the front of his trousers as her tongue darted into his mouth, starting a dance with his tongue. Josh felt as if the excess stimulation was going to make him explode, all the while his soul was being torn from the inside. The fact that he was kissing his little baby girl was causing him intense pain. But with each passing second of their embrace, he knew that his fall from grace was inevitable. He no longer wanted to see the entity on his lap as anything of any human relation to himself. Just a hot writhing body, willingly asking to be possessed by him.
His arms, which had been limp at his sides till now, acting as silent witnesses to the scene, suddenly took to life. They reached up and clasped his daughter's body, pulling her in closer to the kiss. His body leaned deeper into the couch, allowing his pelvis to sink so his belly and his thighs formed a nice cup for Christine to rock her little ass in. Their embrace tightened, their kiss growing fiercer. His hands started to rub into her back. Her could feel her body burning through the nightgown, a touch of dampness setting in, caused by the heat of the moment; and the heat of the unairconditioned basement. Josh could smell her musk now, as her soft blond hair brushed across his face. The scent made his pulse jump to a deep, thundering beat.
Josh's hands began to wander; his left hand moving downward with the sole intention of cupping her firm buns, his right hand caressing past her back and her shoulder blades, coming past the side of her ribs and looking to subjugate the first breast it could find. Christine suddenly stopped the kiss. She raised herself up and pulled Josh's arm away.
Josh went numb. A tempest formed in his heart as it pounded ruthlessly in his stiffened body. What if Christine was having second thoughts? How could he ever look into his daughter's sweet, kind face ever again? How could he live with himself after what he had just done?
Christine looked into her father's eyes. With a boldness that she rarely expressed, she said "Daddy.... let's not stay down here. Let's go upstairs. To your bedroom.... I mean...
our
bedroom.
"
Josh choked on his own breath. She was so forward. How was she so forward? Something about her using that three letter word made him feel like his brain was exploding while his balls were being sucked into his lungs.
Christine quietly dismounted from her father. She tidied her nightgown and placed her arm out to Josh, her eyes telling him that her body yearned to be followed.
Josh struggled to get off the couch. He felt weak. Everything about this situation had drained him, both physically and mentally.
"Come, Daddy," she gestured with her extended hand. Josh took her hand in his and she began to lead him to the rickety staircase that led out of the basement. As they stepped out of the basement's doorway, the bright lights of the passageway burnt into his eyes, forcing his pupils to constrict. As reality came back into focus, he was now able to see Christine clearly for the first time that night. However, under a new light. Her disheveled hair laid sultry on her shoulders, her svelte body draped by the jet black nightgown, exposing her slender arms and the tops of her small breasts. Josh's eyes dragged down over the nightgown, to its frilly bottom that just barely covered Christine's ass. This vision of her made him grow even harder than he had just been in the basement, the animal inside him growing more and more impatient for the taste of the prey that so selflessly offered itself to him.
Josh couldn't take it anymore. He had to break the spell. "Christine..." he mumbled, "why don't you go upstairs and wait for me, Honey. I'll be up in a bit. I just need a glass of water."