PLUS ONE
Copyright 2020 by HisArpy. All Rights reserved.
The events and characters depicted in this work of fiction are derived solely from the author's imagination. Any similarity to any real persons, places, or events is purely coincidental.
Tags: Loving wives, Taboo, Incest, Family, Brother, Sister, Mother, Son
This story is 39,165 words long. Please don't forget to rate the story when you're done reading.
ONE
"Mom! I'm here!" I called out as I came through the front door. There wasn't a return greeting. Instead, there were some thumps and weird sounding noises coming from somewhere upstairs. Following the sounds, I headed that way. Reaching the hallway at the top of the stairs, I turned left toward my parent's bedroom. Well, my mom's bedroom after my dad died unexpectedly from a heart attack three years ago. He'd only been forty one at the time and it had caught everyone by surprise. My mom had been living alone since I left for college and my sister moved into an apartment with her best friend.
"Mom?"
My voice was quiet as I eased open the bedroom door where the noises were coming from. As I pushed the door open wider the entire room came into view. On her back with her legs up and gasping as a silver-haired man slammed into her, my mother was bucking underneath him and urging him on while her arms were wrapped around his shoulders and holding him close. As he rose up to brace himself before starting to really pound into her, the USMC tattoo covering his forearm came into full view.
I knew that tattoo.
As I kept standing there in stunned silence and totally not knowing what to do, my mother rolled her head and opened her eyes to look straight into mine. My grandfather continued to pump himself into her as she locked gazes with me. When my mom stopped moving grandad checked over his shoulder to see what was going on and froze.
"Kevin," my mom's voice was breathy. "Give us a minute and I'll explain."
I didn't say anything. I
couldn't
say anything. Whirling, I slammed the door closed and headed for the stairs.
"Kevin! Wait!"
My grandfather's voice made me stop when I reached the bottom of the stairway. He was standing at the top of the stairs, buck naked. My eyes bored into his and ignored the rest of what was visible.
"How
could
you?"
"Kevin, wait." My mother repeated the request as she showed up right behind her dad. Tightening the belt on her bathrobe she went on. "I can explain."
"Explain what?" I pointed at them both. "
That?
"
My mom's face firmed. "
That
, as you put it, is me expressing my love for my father."
"It's incest." I hissed at them trying to keep my voice down so no one would hear me say it. I didn't
want
to say it. Saying it was gross and made me feel filthy. "It's
illegal
."
Rather than reply, my mom tugged her belt tighter and started coming down the stairs. As she reached the halfway point I stepped back.
"Kevin . . ." She stopped on the stairs as soon as I moved. "I told you, I can explain. If you get angry at me and run off, you'll never know what's going on. What you think you saw isn't what's happening and if you don't let me explain you'll take this bad memory with you and carry it around forever while it eats at you. I can explain if you'll let me. Just give me a chance. Okay?"
Indecisive, I didn't do or say anything. What was there to say? I'd caught them both in bed together. It was obvious what they'd been doing. No one could mistake it for something else.
"Go sit down in the living room." My mom waved her hand at me and started coming down the stairs again. "Go on."
Glancing up to see that my grandfather had vanished, I headed for the living room. There wasn't any way she was ever going to convince me they hadn't been having sex together. No way, no how. I know what I saw.
"Sit." My mom passed me on her way to the kitchen. "I'm going to get a glass of wine. Do you want something?"
I didn't say anything and my silence made her stop and turn around.
"Kevin? Do you want anything?"
I shook my head no.
"Sit. I'll be right back." She pointed at the couch and disappeared.
Rather than sit on the sofa, I chose one of the recliners instead. Perching on the edge of the cushion I waited for her to return. Heavy steps on the carpeting told me that my grandfather was coming downstairs. Before he arrived my mother reappeared holding a glass of white wine and a bottle of beer between her fingers. Seeing me sitting in the recliner, she paused then shrugged and put the two beverages on the coffee table in front of the couch. My grandfather entered as my mom seated herself and looked at him. Patting the cushion in a silent invitation for him to sit next to her, she turned to me.
"What you saw wasn't what you're thinking."
"I know what I saw, you were fucking." I was intentionally crude. I wanted to hurt her and shame them both so they wouldn't do it again.
"That's a very crass way of putting it, but yes." My mother admitted it and grasped her dad's hand as he sat next to her. "We were."
"Then what's left to
explain?
"
"What's left is
why
we were." She picked up her goblet with her free hand and took a sip of wine. "I've been alone since your father died. That's been very difficult for me."
"It's difficult for everyone. That doesn't mean you get to fuck your father. No one gets a pass for it." I cut her off.
"Kevin . . ." My grandfather's voice was stern but my mother stopped him with a negative head shake. Turning back to me she went on with whatever she was trying to say to me.
"There are things you don't know. If your dad was still here he'd have explained all of this to you already."
"Explain what?" I wasn't ready to hear it but the way she'd looked at me made me ask anyway.
"I have three stars."
"What?" That didn't make any sense.