Chapter 11
Vicky's Hooked On Dad
As he stood facing the steamy bathroom mirror, Pablo Senior didn't know what to think of himself anymore. He'd screwed, or very nearly screwed, all three of his pretty daughters, and even his son's wife. Now, a part of him wanted to abandon his home of the last fifteen-odd years and go somewhere very far way. Pablo wanted to move to a place where nobody knew who he was, where nobody had ever heard of him. He wanted to do this before any of his illicit affairs became public knowledge. Before he was put in an embarrassing and undoubtedly disastrous spotlight.
But how could he run out on his family? There were bills that needed paying, and there was still the necessity of getting food on the table. He could forget about his wife Lorena helping out with any of that, as she was making it a point to hang out with her sister Cecilia more and more often. Nowadays, his wife was rarely in the house when Pablo got home from his job. He had to weather through that somehow, he decided, and to pretend his immoral liaisons had never taken place. Hopefully none of the damaging details would ever become known.
After a quick sigh, Pablo leaned closer to the bathroom mirror and studied his face. He had a little stubble on his chin, but he'd deal with that the following morning when he was getting ready for work. His cheeks didn't look as flabby as they had just a few weeks prior. This was mostly due to him cutting back on his alcohol ever since... Ever since he started getting laid again.
In fact, Pablo considered, he was looking pretty good for his age. His brawny chest had always been one of his better attributes, square and taut like some of the action heroes from the black and white films of the fifties. As he held up an arm and tightened his bicep, he found his shoulders and upper arms to be in nice shape as well. Pablo had met very few men in their early forties who had sacrificed as much as he had, in order to maintain an attractive and healthy body.
The only things detrimental he saw were his receding hairline and his thinning hair. For a long moment he wondered if he should just shave his head off completely. Pablo had run into lots of older guys who started doing such a thing when they started losing their hair. He hadn't decided yet if that style was right for him.
Feeling fresh and lively after his post-work shower, Pablo scooped up his dirty clothes from the bathroom floor and made his way outside. Dressed only in a pair of navy blue cotton shorts and sandals, he covered the short distance over to his modest recreation room and tossed his dirty clothes into his personal hamper. The hamper was getting full, Pablo noted. He muttered a silent curse toward his wife, who'd stopped washing his clothes the day after she'd heard the false rumor that he was sleeping around with a coworker.
When he found out exactly who had started that rumor, Pablo vowed that he was going to return to them as much heartache and hardship as what he'd personally gone through in the last few months. Not only did he have to wash his own clothes now, but he also had to go out to buy his own food, and to sleep on a lonely bed when his wife wasn't home or sleep on the living room sofa when she was home. All because of something that had never taken place!
For a time, two of his daughters, Melinda and Amanda, had shunned him. His son Frankie didn't visit the house as often because his wife Carmela was also harboring a grudge against the alleged cheater. This even though rumors of Carmela's own infidelity were always swirling around. All three of those females, Pablo thought with some irony, had sure changed their minds about him after they'd discovered how big his dick was.
The older man had just stepped out of the rec. room, and was about to head back into the house, when his oldest daughter strolled around the side of the house. She was holding her little baby Veronica in her arms.
"Hey, dad." Vicky greeted him, pausing by the front door until Pablo reached it. "Is anybody else home?"
"No." Pablo answered curtly. He was still a little squeamish at interacting with his oldest daughter, since she'd fallen victim to his sexual exploits as well. What was worse about Vicky's specific case was that although his other three incidents had come to him out of the blue, on that unique occasion it had been Pablo who had made the opening moves with Vicky.
"Would you mind putting the baby in her crib?" Vicky passed over her tiny burden. "She fell asleep while I was driving. I've got some stuff I need to get out of the car."
Pablo noted that Vicky wasn't acting any differently toward him than usual. Maybe, he thought, they could ignore their dirty deed and let it fade away into the past. "Sure."
"You look pretty hot, standing there with no shirt on." Vicky grinned, turning and sauntering down the narrow path that led to the driveway.
Although those weren't the words he wanted to hear, he was still pleased that an attractive twenty-four year old found him appealing, even if she was his oldest daughter. In return, Pablo kept his gaze centered on his daughter's retreating form. Her butt jiggled from side to side under her loose sweatpants. Before his thoughts went rampant, he turned and stepped inside.
Pablo quietly made his way into Vicky's bedroom, extra careful not to wake the quiet baby as he lowered her into her fuzzy blankets. Once he'd straightened up, he gazed down lovingly at the little cherub. He wondered if she'd wake up soon so he could have some time to play with her.
Pablo started out of the room, only to see Vicky step back in with a few letters and a couple of bags of baby supplies. As his daughter walked around him, she set the bags on the floor next to the crib and the letters on the nightstand.
Pablo felt compelled to say something, to somehow excuse himself for having taken such grievous liberties with her previously. He cleared his throat. "I wanted to talk to you."
"Sure." Vicky stepped before him. "What's up?"
"It's about the other day..." The man started, but his voice trailed off and his head shamefully turned aside. He could no longer bring himself to look into his daughter's face. "About what we did."