As was her normal routine, Cynda Morgan bathed after dinner and was now curled up on her couch reading from a novel of her favorite author, Sue Grafton. She was up to K in the series, as in
"K" is for Killer
, and she was just as enthralled with this as she had been with A-J, only tonight, there was something else on her mind besides murder most foul, something that would not allow her to give the book all the attention it deserved. She was going to have a conversation with her daughter on a subject she never imagined would be a topic of discussion between them. Cynda dog-eared the page she was currently on and closed the book. She attempted to affect a few scenarios of how to begin when her daughter Marissa entered the living room. "You wanted to see me, Mama?" Marissa asked as she sat across from her mother.
"Yes," Cynda said as she sat up a bit. She had told Marissa to come see her after she had washed dishes and bathed. Cynda knew how she wanted this conversation to go, but what she wanted and what she got might end up being two completely different things. Even with her tiny attempt at preplanning, she really didn't know how to start things off, so she simply held up a small, penlight flashlight and asked her daughter, "Did you lose this?"
Marissa literally turned pale as a ghost as her jaw dropped—yes, dropped. If this were a crime scene and Cynda a detective showing a perp a clue, the body language would attest to her guilt. Marissa tentatively reached for it, then pulled back. "Wh-Where did you find it?"
"When I awoke this morning, it was in my bed, under me," Cynda answered. "Any idea how it got there?"
Marissa stared at the flashlight. Her bottom lip began to quiver, then she blinked and twin tears poured over her cheeks. Her throat had seized, but she managed to push through it the following, discernable just above a whisper: "I ... I must have left it there." The tears continued to flow, but Marissa had not yet reached a state of all-out boo-hoo sobbing. Her emotions were still under her control, though she didn't know for how much longer that might remain.
"And why would you have left it there?" Cynda asked. "More importantly, when? It wasn't there last night when I went to bed."
"Mom? I need to tell you something," Marissa said with a shaky voice. "Your first instinct might be to get angry, but please don't. Can you promise me that?"
"I can promise to keep an open mind," Cynda replied. "Good enough?"
"Mm-hmm," Marissa said as she simultaneously nodded frenetically. The tears continued, but she was yet to lose control. She took a deep breath, then began. "Last Friday I came home early from work. I figured you were in your room, so I was going to surprise you. I reached your doorway and that's when I saw ..."
"Yes," Cynda asked when her daughter did not immediately finish her sentence. "Saw what?"
"I ... I saw you masturbating," Marissa said.
"Oh. I see," Cynda said in response.
Perhaps Marissa was in such emotional turmoil that she did not pick up on her mother's total indifference to this declaration, which is why she continued on as she did. "I watched you, Mom. I watched you masturbate until you came, and then I saw you stick two fingers inside of yourself, and then I saw you move them to your mouth and lick them like you were licking melted ice cream from them, and then you did it again."
"Uh-huh," Cynda intoned, same indifference present as was before.
"I ... It got me wet watching you do that, Mom," Marissa said. "I went to the garage and masturbated myself to three orgasms. By the time I was done, I re-entered the house and you were finished so I pretended like nothing was wrong, but something was wrong, Mom. I couldn't stop thinking about what I saw. When I went to bed that night, I could see you as plainly as I can now. I've always thought you were a beautiful woman, but seeing you naked on your bed, your breasts ... your ..."
"My pussy?" Cynda offered.
Marissa laughed, but it was borne of nervousness. "Yes, your pussy. Your pussy was—is so beautiful, and all I could think about was you masturbating and swallowing your own cum. I played out various scenarios as I masturbated throughout the night. The first was you seeing me and masturbating for my benefit. The second was you allowing me to masturbate you. The third was mutual masturbation, and the fourth was ... It was me going down on you, Mom, and that's how the flashlight came into play."
"Do tell." The indifference was still there. Why had Marissa not yet picked up on it?
"I tried my best to dismiss it, Mom. I really did, but the more time that passed, the more crazed I became over wanting to know what your cum tasted like. Then, on Monday, you'll recall that I brought you a glass of wine?"
"Yes."
"Mom, I emptied two of your Ambien into the bottle before pouring it. I realize that it was a dangerous thing to do, but I could think of no other way of doing what I wanted to do to you. I'm so sorry, Mom. Please forgive me."
Cynda was about to take this opportunity to completely clear the air, but she was rather enjoying her daughter's story. Hell, it was just as good as anything Sue Grafton had ever written. With that in mind, she simply said, "Continue."