Thank you Oldbroad76 for editing.
"She's your daughter!" Janet said calmly.
Three words and John's world came tumbling down around him. He didn't believe it. He couldn't believe it. But when he looked at Mia and she said, "I'm sorry", then it all clicked into place.
Why he thought she seemed so familiar, why the sex was so similar to when he was with Janet.
Sex! Oh my fucking god! I've been having sex with my own daughter!
John thought he was going to throw up. He was shaking, and the room went blurry.
"Mia!" Janet's fuzzy voice shouted. "You're coming home right now!"
"No Mum." Mia very weakly replied.
John was stood still. He used everything he had to just stay standing.
"I'm taking you away from this sick fuck!" Janet shouted. "And I am never letting you out of my sight again!"
John could sense movement around him, but he couldn't make it out clearly.
"No! Get off me! I'm never coming back to you!" Mia's voice shouted. She was afraid.
"Do as you're fucking told!" Janet screamed back.
And then... SLAP! A loud, echoing crash of skin on skin echoed around the room, and John's senses came back to him.
He looked up and saw Mia quivering, holding her cheek that was glowing red, and Janet stood in front of her.
"Get your clothes and get in the fucking car!" Janet shouted.
"You need to leave." John growled.
"We are. Don't you worry about that!" Janet shot back and reached for Mia, but John's hand appeared and grabbed her wrist.
"No." John grunted. "You need to get out of my house."
He didn't know where it came from. Finally working out that Mia was his daughter, even though he had been sleeping with her, brought out his protective fatherly side, and he would not let his ex-wife hurt her.
"Get your hands off me." Janet threatened back.
John did let go. The last thing he wanted was to be arrested for assaulting his ex-wife.
"Get out of this house," John said clearly and firmly. "If Mia wants to stay, then she can."
He turned to look at Mia, who was still crying and rubbing her cheek, but she stared at John in a shocked way.
"So you can fuck her again?" Janet shouted.
"I'm not going to say it again," John told her. "Get out, or I will call the police."
"And tell them what?" Janet argued. "That you've been committing incest with your own daughter?"
John was furious. When they were married Janet always won their arguments, mainly due to John giving up, but not anymore.
"They wouldn't believe that," John told her, "but when they see that you struck her, they will leave Mia with her father."
Janet stared at John with threatening eyes.
"Mia, put your clothes on." John said, not taking his eyes off Janet.
But Mia quickly moved and got dressed before hiding behind John's large, muscular body.
"I gave up everything for you," Janet growled past John and at Mia. "I walked out on him to raise you, and this is the thanks I get?"
"I never wanted you to do that!" Mia finally argued back.
Janet lunged forward, but John got in the way and blocked her.
"Leave. Now." He said.
"Fuck you both," Janet said and turned to walk away. "Good luck with that cunt!"
"Lovely as always to see you." John got one last shot in before Janet slammed the door.
He walked to the front of the house to make sure she left before returning to the living room where Mia was stood waiting for him.
"Thank you for defending me..." Mia blurted out, but John cut her off.
"Sit down." He grunted. The seriousness in his tone was blatant, and she did as she was told. "Explain, now."
Mia continued to cry, and her hands played in her lap as she looked at the ground. With Janet gone, John calmed down. He looked at Mia, not just as some young woman, but as his daughter. His daughter who was upset and hurt.
With a sigh he sat down next to her.
"Mia," He said but she wouldn't look up, "I need to know everything."
With the lies finally broken, Mia opened up about everything she found out a few months ago.
"When Mum got pregnant with me, she... she didn't want a baby," Mia said through tears, "she knew that you would want to keep me, so she travelled home and gave me to some of her distant cousins."
That was when she broke up with me for a while... it makes sense now.
"Then she had Piper," Mia whispered. "Apparently, she tried to make it work, but she felt guilty about abandoning me, so she came back to raise me instead. But... she was miserable... she, she drank."
To make up for abandoning Mia, she abandoned Piper?
"Mum told me that my dad wanted nothing to do with me," Mia continued, "but a few months ago, the cousins that she gave me too... they got drunk and slipped up. They accidentally mentioned about my father who didn't know who I was. I couldn't believe it. I didn't at first until I found you. It took a lot of work. And then I found out I had a sister."
Oh my god, what is Piper going to say when she finds out that not only does she have a long-lost sister, but that they've been having sex?!
"So," Mia said, "I ran away. I came here, to meet you both. I just... I wanted a family... a happy family. A dad who loved me, not a mum who lied and... hurt me."
That final sentence proved to John that this wasn't the first time that Janet struck Mia.
John let it all sink in. For a few minutes he was silent, trying to come to terms with everything.
"Why?" John finally managed to speak.
"W-Why?" Mia stuttered, "I just said... I wanted a family."
"No," John interrupted. "Why didn't you just meet us... why the... oh god, I've had sex with my own daughter."
It was all so much to take in that John was slowly accepting it, but every time he did it would be followed by distraught over what he had done.
"I don't... I don't know." Mia whispered and sobbed even harder.
John looked at her,
she's not a bad person,
he thought,
she's just a confused young girl who's been lied to her whole life.
Even that didn't help John come to terms with what had happened.
"I didn't want you to reject me," Mia broke the silence,. "Once I found you, I had hope that I could have a proper family. Then I thought... what if you didn't want me. For all I knew, you were aware of me and never tried to make contact."
"Mia," John said, guilt crushing his chest, "you have to know that I had no idea you existed. If I did... I would have been a father to you."
"I know," Mia said, "but once I knew that... it was too late. I had already done what I did."
John winced at the thought that both he and Piper had committed incest with Mia.
"I just... I just..." Mia said through her tears and runny nose, "you both seemed so happy with what was going on... I wanted to make you both happy... I didn't want to ruin it."
John felt a tear run down his own cheek at his daughter's emotions.