Prelude:
When Leon (Lee) Pounder Jr. went to the County Youth Detention Facility, something inside of Melanie came unmoored.
Despite her best efforts to be a good mother to Lee and provide a stable home, her son had begun to run with the wrong crowd. Lee and a buddy had broken into a house, looking for something to steal. They didn't get anything and nobody was hurt, but they were quickly identified and arrested. And there was a gun involved. Lee hadn't held it and this was a first offense, but the homeowner insisted on pressing charges and Lee got six months. The fact that he was Leon Pounder Sr.'s son probably tipped the scales against any possible leniency.
It had indeed been a rough three years since Leon Pounder Sr. had been sentenced to life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Melanie had found work cocktailing in a stripper bar, although she had shied away from the boob job she would need to make the real money on stage. Not that she was entirely lacking in that department. She'd always had two nice handfuls. But time and a child had done their work and she was somewhat saggy and deflated. Nevertheless, she was surrounded by the kind of hard men she had always known, men a bit like Leon Pounder Sr. and she knew how to tease them to please them. She always had.
Melanie had been barely legal when the virile and dangerous Leon Pounder first had her on her back, hardly older then that when Lee came along, and just twenty when her parents cut her out of their will. At the time she was defiant. Screw them! What did they know of love? She was in love with Leon and she wasn't afraid to scream it at the world. She loved his broad chest and thickly muscled torso. She loved his devilish grin and fuck 'em attitude. She loved picking out the tattoos he would adorn his arms with.
But most of all she loved his cock and what he could do to her with it. Leon had taught her how to fuck that cock, and suck that cock and in time, to accept that she had to share that cock with the other women who caught his roving eye. Later, after he had trained her pussy to be greedy and her tongue to be exciting, he started trying to share them with his buddies, and then his business associates, and then... well, there was money to be made from a hot piece of ass like Melanie.
It was then that she finally left him for the first time. It wouldn't be the last time, but over the years she began to straighten her act out, build a home life for young Lee and eventually to reconcile with her parents. There were relapses into the hell that was life with Leon; tempestuous reunions and violent breakups. But he had been out of their lives for almost two years when he killed that cop. He was on the run for ten days, and Melanie shivered every time she recalled that they caught him just a few blocks from the modest apartment she shared with Lee.
They had never properly married, so there was no divorce. He sent letters asking about Lee, whom he had shown little interest in previously, and asking her to come for conjugal visits. To her chagrin, she even considered it in a wicked moment. Despite her good looks, she hadn't many suitors. Leon scared them off, even from prison. But when he heard that Lee was being sent to the Youth Detention Facility, he sent a letter of "fatherly" advice to the young man about surviving on the inside, and
that
sent Melanie over the edge into the abyss of obsession.
Chapter 01:
It was after hours when Melanie had come home from work to find Lee drafting a response to the letter his father had sent. It was his last night of freedom before turning himself in to serve his sentence. She showed Melanie the letter and she was appalled. It read as though Leon expected his son to follow him into a life spent in and out of jail.
Melanie somehow managed to remain calm, although inwardly she was seething. She stood over the young man slouched on the sofa. "First of all, thank you for sharing this with me, Lee. You showed me a lot of trust." She paused for a moment to consider. "Let me shower up and get dressed for bed while I think on it. Then we'll talk about an appropriate response, if any."
When she returned, she had tied her hair back casually and wearing her loose flannel jammies. Lee liked seeing her in these, she looked soft and relaxed. He couldn't help noticing the way her breasts swayed gently under the material as she walked across the room to him. He had taken the moment to ready for bed himself and was wearing only the boxer shorts and T-shirt he favored. She led him to the sofa and they read Leon's letter together and Lee's start at a response.
It was respectful and tentative. Lee didn't know quite what to say.
"Lee, lets address your father's letter first. Frankly, it reads as though your father expects you to spend much of your life behind bars."
"No Ma! No. No way! I was an idiot and I'm going to pay for it. I'll miss my graduation; I'll miss my friends... Ma, I'm scared. I don't know what's going to happen to me." He was still just a boy under the bravado, and he began to dissolve into tears. Melanie pulled him to her, and they wrapped their arms about each other, Melanie's soft female curves yielding under young Lee's lean, sinewy embrace. Lee loved these moments of closeness, but secretly feared that she might notice the way his cock was stiffening. For a long moment they grieved that they were soon to be parted.
"I think he's just trying to help me, Ma. And he
is
the expert on this sort of stuff." He made a small laugh.
"I'm sure he is, Lee. But he doesn't know how to be a father and this is not the way."
They sat silent for a moment. Then she spoke to him, "We have to think of this as a do-over. We have the next six months to think about who and what we want to be and make it a reality. You have to do it."
"I know, Ma. I will."